Face Impact

As the Internet is developing fast during these years, more methods of communication appear and have changed the way of generating images. Physical painting is much impacted and challenged by digital art and video art.

Chen Danqing says that "nowadays everybody has a mobile phone, which has changed the way of making images. The new art is no longer painting nor device. It is digital art and video art. Painting is a marginalized art."

In digital era, images and information are exploding. For instance, "Wechat" (a new app for chatting on mobile phone) is widely used, which encourages people upload their works on its platform. Though their qualities vary, these works meet the need of entertainment, commercialization and self-expression. Thus they become a focus of the society.

It seems that painting is an art that has no future. However, we have to face the fact and insist to be ourselves. Because when we confidently get hold of characteristics of painting art and do not blindly follow suit, we will create a new situation based on our solid academic study and current social condition. Painting art will not lose its value through time chanes.

Oil painters, who come from the Yangtze River delta region, have great goals, solid professionalism and rich experience. They combine the classic oil painting style and Chinese traditional spirit together to experiment and explore. Their works reflect the endeavours of carrying forward humanistic spirit, which is also the artists' attitudes toward challenges in digital era.

Hosted by:

Yangtze River Delta Art Museum Collaboration Mechanism

Organizer:

Kunshan Hou Beiren Art Museum

Co-organizers:

Liu Haisu Art Museum

Ningbo Museum of Art

Liu Haisu Art Museum (Changzhou)

Branch of Liu Haisu Art Museum

Ya Ming Art Museum

Time:

20 January 2016 - 22 February 2016

Location:

No. 3 Hall