ArtPartnership
ArtPartnership is a public school outreach program that brings 700-1000 students annually to the Museum from the region. The program is held in the museum's galleries, foyer or in college lecture or art studio facilities.
March 1 - March 31, 2012
Chinese Painting on Location: The Art of Lin Haizhong
This year’s ArtPartnership brings traditional Chinese landscape art with a modern twist to the area.
Typical Chinese ink paintings that depict landscapes are often described as landscapes of the mind. These paintings emerge from the intimate relationships that a painter forms with his environment, but the paintings do not depict particular scenes from reality. Rather they represent imaginary landscapes that emerge from the mind of the painter and they reflect a fusion of approaches that combine personal styles with techniques that have been developed for centuries. The contemporary landscape paintings by Lin Haizhong are a unique effort to re-imagine the changing modern Chinese landscape through a personal vision and an appeal to the past—to preserve the historic landscape and create a modern Chinese environment with traditional roots. This exhibition will display the paintings of this innovative artist and present his philosophical approach to Chinese art through photographs, interviews and displays on the contemporary practice of Chinese ink painting.
Lin Haizhong is a professor in the traditional Chinese painting department at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, where he is also the Associate Director of the Research Center for calligraphy and painting appreciation. His paintings have been collected by the National Art Museum of China, the Shanghai Art Museum, the Guangdong Museum of Art and the British Museum.