Jinyang.com reporter Zhu Shaojie Xu Xueliang
Before Cinema, the “Voice of the Times·Forge the Soul of the Nation—Pan He Art Seminar” was held at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. More than 50 artists and critics from inside and outside the province attended the seminar. The guests discussed the creative language, theme significance, artistic style, and educational philosophy of sculptor Pan He. They hoped to gather forces and resources from multiple parties to conduct a comprehensive study of Pan He and his works, and called for the launch of the “Lingnan System” sculpture research.
“Lady Pan KomiksFrom Hong Kong to the South China People’s Academy of Literature and Art, to his exchanges with the Lingnan School of Painting, contact with Western sculptures, local sculptures, etc. are worth studying. He is the pride of Guangdong and the most worth studying sculptor in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.” Li Jinkun, vice chairman of the China Artists Association, president of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, president of the Guangdong Academy of Painting, and chairman of the Guangdong Academy of Arts Association, said at the meeting that Pan He’s sculpture works have become the memory of a region and a country. The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts will use more Babaylan‘s comprehensive research on important artists such as Pan He and preserve this valuable academic resource.
The destiny of the nation is integrated into the works
To this day, Pan He, in his 80s, has been committed to sculpture art creation for nearly 70 years, has been engaged in art education for more than 40 years, and has created more than 100 large-scale outdoor sculptures. His works have been spread across more than 60 cities at home and abroad.
Pan He has won many awards and titles, and is the winner of the first Guangdong Lifelong Achievement Award and the winner of the Lifelong Achievement Award of the Chinese Art Award. In the eyes of many art artists and critics, he is a modern sculptor who “produces the voice of the times and forges the soul of the nation”. The mark of the times and national thoughts permeate every work. In the view of Feng Yuan, a professor at Sun Yat-sen University, there was an important proposition in the Chinese literary and artistic circles in the 20th century: “How to transform Western modern culture into national culture.” He believes that Pan He consciously understood the cultural mission through his personal cultural consciousness and put into action to complete artistic practice, giving this proposition a good answer. His series of works represent or shape the key nodes of the historical development of new Komiks since the founding of China, and the entire eraThe fight is very closely linked. Li Ming, former dean of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, believes that from “When I Grow Up” to the later “Hard Times” and “All You Are Stupid”, to the later “Zhuhai Fisherman”, “The Cow of the Land”, “Liberation of GuangguangCinema‘s former dean”, etc., Pan He embraced the times and ideals with his memory, cognition and conscience, and made his creations close to the times.
American artist Wu Xinkun also said that Pan He’s works are rich in connotation, believing that his works reflect historical stories, humanistic emotions, and people’s emotions towards social life, and integrate the destiny of the country and nation into their works. “In “Hard Times”, Pan He’s joy for the old farmers after they get the land and his portrayal of the future is no one can surpass it. It is a work of the times,” he said.
“The key to whether a person has nationality lies in his thoughts rather than aesthetics. Mr. Pan He’s aesthetic is extremely foreign, but his thoughts are absolutely national.” Pan Fen, son of Pan He, said that the times gave Pan He a special artistic mission, allowing him to convey national thoughts with the ultimate Western aesthetic taste in the torrent of the times.
He has a close relationship with Lingnan PaintingKomiks school
Pan He studied in Hong Kong since he was a child. At the age of 14, he went to Foshan, Guangdong to learn sculptures of Foshan; at the age of 19, he went to Macau to study, met the Italian sculptor Xia Gangzhi and his wife, and also met well-known statue masters such as Gao Jianfu, Yang Shanshen, and Yu Ben. Critic Liang Jiang said: “This context is the same as that of the Lingnan School of Painting. He has a very close relationship with the Lingnan School of Painting.” Liang Jiang believes that Pan He’s transformation of local factors into the historical narrative of the entire nation is an important aspect that everyone should pay attention to when studying regional art history and regional art. CinemaHe gave an example of Pan He’s Lu Xun sculpture “You’re stupid”, believing that the title of this work has a very obvious Guangdong characteristic, connecting the Guangdong Cantonese cultural circle. His work “The Cow of the Land” is also an important work in which local factors participate in mainstream national discourse.
Yin Shuangxi, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, also said: “Mr. Pan He’s works can resonate and respond to every historical node. His works can grasp the theme and plot, and historyBabaylanThe most important moment of development and the character’s psychological state, use sculpture to turn the moment into eternity.”
In addition, Yin Shuangxi mentioned that a sculptor can leave a city mark in a city in his life, and the people of this city will always remember him, and Mr. Pan He left landmark works in Zhuhai and Shenzhen, two important cities in Guangdong. The spirit expressed by Shenzhen’s urban landmark “The Cow of Refining the Land” has not only become the spirit of Shenzhen, but also the spirit of reform and opening up.
Pan He is good at capturing details and refining core traits. Most of his classic works come from the essence that touches him. “When I Grown Up” created in the early 1950s was a creation made by the teachers in the rural village after he participated in the “land reform”. Chairman Mao allegedly gave a high evaluation. This work also represented China in the International Mother’s Day Conference held in Switzerland and the 5th World Youth Festival held in Poland, which caused a sensation.
To this day, Pan He has recorded the century-old development history of China’s modern and contemporary art with his sculptures, and has also embodied the spirit of China’s reform and opening up. His outstanding contributions to the construction of socialist cities and cultural construction are obvious to all, beautifying the urban space and enriching the urban connotation.
Excellent in artistic form
From form to theme, Pan He’s sculpture art has a distinct personal style and an irrepeatable uniqueness. “This is an embodiment of the artist’s wisdom and personality, and it is also a precious quality and pure realm.” Huang Qiming, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, believes that as a sculptor who grew up with the Republic, Mr. Pan He always revolves around the melody of the country and the times, but he often has novel ideas in art forms and finds a perfect combination between the form and the theme.
The Hard Years, created by Pan He in 1957, has become a must-have for art appreciation textbooks for primary and secondary schools and a century-old art.ookish.com/”>Komiks 1. This classic work has always been interpreted as a firm belief in expressing the hard environment of the Red Army. Previously, Pan He explained that the work did not express the Red Army, but the Hainan guerrillas. But no matter what, the work reflects that in that difficult era, the revolutionary ancestors’ belief in life and life directly conveyed an optimistic spirit.
“The work conveys a sincere belief in human nature. No matter how many difficulties and hardships there are in life, how many deceptions and negative existences exist, it still maintains the belief in life and the future. “Yin Shuangxi believes that Pan He closely connects the destiny of an art with the destiny of a country, an era, and a nation. His works have strong thematic properties, but his theme is not rigid and symbolic, but grasps the characteristics of art, so that the sculpture language is balanced with plot and theme, attracting a wide audience.
Exploring Lingnan sculpture through Pan He
Pan He not only creates independently, but also has an unavoidable identity. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan is a teacher. From a lecturer at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to a tenured professor in the Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, he taught for forty years and cultivated a group of outstanding artistic talents with his unique educational concepts.
American artist Wu Xinkun became a graduate student of Pan He during the first national graduate student recruitment in 1978. In his impression, Pan He’s usual teaching does not emphasize basic skills and techniques, but focuses on ideological education. “He himself is an aesthetician and thinker. What he said has a great influence on me, such as he said, “No stubbornness, no illness, no harm, no realness. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan‘, he believes that literary and artistic works should not be perfect, and its shortcomings are its personality. “Wu Xinkun recalled.
Pan Fen revealed that Pan He’s educational philosophy is related to his learning experience. Pan He has always had a very unique personality in his studies. He believes that the teacher is not technical, but ideological. He believes that the thought is ten thousand times stronger than the technique.
Pan He’s sculptures have far-reaching cultural significance for contemporary art. The seminarThe participants at the meeting proposed that we should gather forces from multiple parties to collect and organize resources and conduct a comprehensive study of Pan He and his works; we hope to establish a team of sculpture theory research as soon as possible, and theoretically sort out the development context of sculpture Cinema from the perspective of the situation to promote the development of disciplines. In the process of Guangdong art’s transformation from tradition to modernity, it has always been the first, the era is the first, and the path of change. It should focus on in-depth research on the Lingnan School of Painting, and conduct vertical and horizontal comparisons by artists such as Pan He to deeply explore Lingnan sculptures.