Patriotic artist’s works on display in his hometown
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A solo exhibition of Jiading native Shen Yiqian’s art and documents has been staged at Lu Yanshao Art Gallery, featuring 41 paintings, 10 photographs and about 30 documents and relics of Shen from 1930 to 1944 to tell the story of this legendary painter.
Shen Yiqian (1908-1944) was enrolled into the Shanghai Fine Art College to learn painting and art in the early 1930s. Later he was devoted to the exploration of integration of Chinese and Western painting styles and the creation of realistic themed painting. He was considered the leader of Chinese Western-themed paintings and a pioneer of Chinese realistic painting style.
Shen was also a renowned patriot and earned praise for his high sense of social responsibility. His works are praised as a major contribution to Chinese painting history and his artistic achievements and heroic deeds in that period are still remembered to this day.
He had created a lot of work on the fight against Japanese invaders. In 1940, he visited Yan’an, in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province and met the leader Mao Zedong. It was the first time Mao let an artist paint his portrait.
The writer Shen Yanbing, also known as Mao Dun, said among all the artist workers, Shen had travelled most and the farthest into the battlefields of China. The opera writer Yang Hansheng said Shen’s works were inspirational in the fight against the Japanese invaders. Famous painter Xu Beihong said Shen had produced a large amount of works and his depictions of the daily lives of soldiers and ordinary people were quite outstanding.
Shen became the head of Shanghai National Calamity Propaganda Group, a sketch artist of the newspaper “Ta Kung Pao” and a war reporter of the pictorial “Young Companion,” a council member of the China Anti-Japanese Artists Association, secretary-general of the preparation committee of China Anti-Japanese Fine Art Overseas Exhibitions and leader of the battlefield sketching team.
The ongoing exhibition in Jiading covered most of Shen’s activities during the war against Japanese aggression (1937-45), which deeply influenced his artistic style. He recorded history through painting and photography, inspiring Chinese people to fight against invaders.
The exhibition is organized by Shanghai Jiading Literature & Art Federation, Lu Yanshao Art Gallery, Jiading Museum and the China Research Center of the University of California Santiago Campus.
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