Academic Lecture: Modern and Contemporary Ink 学术讲座：现代水墨和当代水墨

​This lecture features Wei Xiangqi, who holds a PhD in Art History and Theory and is a research curator at the National Art Museum of China.

​Chinese painting underwent three major waves of transformation from tradition to modernity in the twentieth century. The first, during the New Culture Movement, saw artists engage with subjects drawn from contemporary life and introduce realist approaches to pictorial representation. The second, following the founding of the People’s Republic of China, centred on depicting the people and contributing to the construction of a modern nation-state. The third, during the era of reform and opening up, saw modern ink painting, with abstraction as its dominant visual mode, enter into dialogue with Western modern and contemporary art. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, ink art has grown increasingly diverse in its visual language, concepts, meanings, and scope. The flourishing of New Gongbi and New Ink has given rise to a wide range of contemporary ink practices that are both locally rooted and international in outlook.

​Moderated by Audrey Zhang, the gallery owner.

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​本次学术讲座邀请美术学博士、中国美术馆研究馆员魏祥奇担任主讲。

​20世纪中国绘画从传统走向现代经历三次浪潮：新文化运动时期介入现实题材、引入写实性造型体系为一次浪潮；新中国成立后描绘和表现人民形象、构建现代民族国家是为二次浪潮；改革开放新时期以抽象为主要视觉形态的现代水墨展开与西方现代艺术和当代艺术的对话为三次浪潮。新世纪以来，水墨在语言与观念、内涵与外延上日趋丰富，新工笔和新水墨勃兴，涌现出一系列兼具与本土性与国际性的当代水墨艺术创作。

​主持：画廊主张鹤馨