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| Trio-Galleries Present Golden Shanghai Painting Pavilion  Shanghai Art Fair 2009 (13th), as Asia's celebrated art exchange, will grandly be held in ShanghaiMART from September 9 to September 13. During the Shanghai Art Fair 2009, Huangjie Gallery, Yi Qin Gallery & Lu Gallery, which are called "tiro-galleries" dealing in Shanghai Painting, will jointly launch a splendid historical scroll of Shanghai Painting's – "Shanghai Painting School Pavilion". More than 100 pieces of the most classial and representive artworks will be luxuriantly unfolded in space of 300 sqm.Looking at "Shanghai Painting School Pavilion", the "trio-galleries" display their artworks in an effort to repesent the whole development course of Shanghai Painting. Amid the artworks presented in the pavilion, we can easily grasped the Shanghai Painting's trajectory writen down by generations of artists - The embryonic stage was initated by the first generation of Masters, Zhao Zhiqian, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo; in the period of development emerged the second generation of Masters, Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi, Xie Zhiliu, Liu Haishu, Lin Fengmian; the third generation of Masters like Chen Peiqiu, Chen Shifa strived for change, innovation, and progress; the backbone force composed of Master Shi Dawei, Fang Zengxian, Lu Fusheng in contemporary Shanghai Painting field explored their own roads. The whole pavilion gathers the most famous classics by most distinguished masters. An artistic critic appraised highly of "Shanghai Painting School Pavilion" after scanning the menu of exhibitiing artworks. He called the pavilion as an unprecedented concentrative exhibition of Shanghai Painting artworks since the founding of Shanghai Art Fair. The hotspot of this pavilion is the prices of artworks. According to the appraisal by insiders, the entire value of the artworks in "Shanghai Painting School Pavilion" add up to no lower than 100 million RMB. Each piece in the pavilion is invaluable. Such as Remove Infelicity created by Tang Yun, the marker price is about RMB 500000; Landscape created by Zheng Wuchang is about RMB 800000; Aigrette on the Lake created by Lin Fengmian is no less than RMB 2M; Mandarin Duck with Water Lily created by Wu Hufan and Zhou Lianxia is up to RMB 2.6-2.8M; Place in Qing Dynasty created by Wu Changshuo is as high as RMB 6M, and his Four Men of Honor created in 1915 reaches the high price RMB 8M. According to the Director of Shanghai Art Fair, the act of presenting this pavilion by the "trio-galleries" demonstrates the spirit of cooperation amid galleries in Shanghai. Moreover, the galleries commit themselves to arrangeing the historical context of Shanghai Painting and promoting its quintessence through the platform provided by Shanghai Art Fair. The viewpoint of the Director is approved by Professior Xu Jianrong, the famous art historian and critic, who holds the idea that the proud view of Shanghai Painting is created not only by artists but also by art market and collection. It is the prosper market and nomative collecting behaviors that impluses the creation of Shanghai Painting, also guarantee its inheritance during the course of cultural evolvement. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Exhibition News :: home page |