There's love behind loneliness

It has always been Cao Liyun's dream to go out of Jiangxi and enter Shanghai, an international metropolis, to hold a solo exhibition. The day had finally arrived. April 8, is an auspicious day, the first day or spring rain Xiaoxiao, today is sunny, spring breeze send cool. The rare fine weather was icing on the cake for the exhibition.

At 2:30 pm, Cao Liyun's Chinese Painting Exhibition was grandly opened in Cheng Shifa Art Museum. The Art Museum is an ancient building of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The main gate of the Art Museum is decorated with eaves and brick carvings. On the right wall of the gate is the golden embossed Wu Bangguo inscription Cheng Shifa Art Museum; on the left side is the carved Cheng Shifa self-portrait and calligraphy. Architectural style and Chinese traditional ink charm integration, showing a profound, elegant and simple humanistic characteristics.

The opening ceremony was held in the courtyard in front of the foyer of the art gallery. The red banner hanging on the beam of the hall reads: Cao Liyun Chinese Painting Exhibition Opening Ceremony, more than a dozen colorful flower baskets lined up in front of the hall. The dozens of folding chairs placed in the courtyard were packed, and they were all art elites and famous scholars. As Cao Liyun's classmates, more than 20 of us came from all over the country. Because of the large number of people, the courtyard and the entrance are also full of local painting and calligraphy enthusiasts watching the exhibition. Among them, many elderly people came here because of their fame.

Guests attending the opening ceremony included leaders of the Cultural Department of Shanghai City Government and the Propaganda Department of Songjiang District Committee, as well as leaders and experts of Cao Liyun's hometown of Jiangxi Province Xinyu City People's Congress and Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Dr. feng zhiguo, professor and graduate tutor of china academy of art, mr. peng kaitian, honorary curator of jiangxi peng youyi art museum, etc. Lu Xiaoqun, curator of Cheng Shifa Art Museum, presided over the opening ceremony. Ms Wang Chunlei, member of the Party Committee and deputy director of Songjiang District Culture, Radio, Film and Television Administration Bureau, gave a passionate speech and paid tribute to Cao Liyun, a female painter from Jiangxi Province who came from afar. Praise for her work. she also wished the exhibition a complete success with today's fine weather.

Mr. Hu Cheng delivered a speech on behalf of Jiangxi Province Artists Association: As a peer, he admired Ms. Cao Liyun's talent and perseverance very much, and introduced her basic information: Cao Liyun, born in Nanfeng, Jiangxi Province, engaged in artistic creation for many years in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, Fu Baoshi's hometown. She has a wide range of interests in art, involving prints, lacquer paintings, traditional Chinese paintings and other paintings. In Chinese painting, flowers and birds, figures, mountains and rivers have made outstanding achievements. She is a member of Chinese Artists Association, a national first-class artist, a standing director of Jiangxi Province Artists Association, chairman of Xinyu City Artists Association of Jiangxi Province, and her works have been selected into the 9th and 10th National Art Works Exhibition, the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China National Art Exhibition, etc. I would like to express my gratitude to the Museum for its diligent work and my warm congratulations on the opening of this exhibition.

The last speaker was Ms. Cao Liyun, who thanked her organization, leaders, colleagues, friends and classmates for her successful exhibition and expressed her concern and help: Over the years, I have experienced a long exploration process in the creation of Chinese landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting. Experienced from sketching and then explore the process of finding their own ink language. Constantly in the brush and ink, artistic conception, subject matter and form of exploration and pursuit, hoping to enrich the art of Chinese painting, carry forward. At the same time, it endows it with richer and more advanced connotation.

When the host announced that in order to express the painter Cao Liyun's support and love for Cheng Shifa Art Museum, he donated a Chinese painting work "Beautiful Scenery Edge Like Blue" for collection. At this time, the guests and the audience gave warm applause.

The opening ceremony was simple, grand and efficient, omitting some red tape and reflecting a new style. After the opening ceremony, the exhibition began. Guests and spectators were led down to the exhibition hall by the curator. Each piece is hung in a standard, temperature-and-humidity controlled glass cabinet. The consciousness of metropolis to protect cultural fine works is incomparable to other provinces and cities. This exhibition, jointly sponsored by Jiangxi Province Artists Association and Cheng Shifa Art Museum, displays more than 30 pieces of Cao Liyun's various traditional Chinese paintings and ink paintings, among which quite a few are her new creations in recent years. The types of works include prints, lacquer paintings, traditional Chinese paintings with figures, flowers and birds, landscapes. In particular, landscape painting ink is heavier, color is more gloomy. Green landscape is pleasing to the eye, modern landscape is natural.

From everyone's enthusiasm for the exhibition and feedback information, it was all rave reviews, and the words of praise were endless. Among them, there are some famous celebrities. Their unanimous view is that Cao Liyun is worthy of being a descendant from the hometown of culture. Her series of works such as Spring Dawn in Hometown, Hometown Love and Autumn Scenery Show are the real scenes of the landscape of Orange Township and Xiannv Lake. They are sincere and indulgent. There is the legacy of Master Fu Baoshi. There is a deep understanding of traditional techniques, and there is a distinct personal style. She is good at integrating various art categories for reference, and has bold exploration and innovation. A woman can have such high artistic attainments and lofty realms. It's not something you can do in a short time. It must have taken a lot of hard work.

What the expert had seen was extremely accurate. As for this point, as long as she had contact with people, especially a few close university classmates, they had the most say. In order to concentrate on reading and painting, he has lived alone for a long time. In the new home decoration, according to their own creation of reading, living needs for a special decoration treatment. Living in a busy city, but good at taking quiet in the middle of it. Intentionally keeping a distance from her family and eliminating interference, her room, in addition to a few necessary practical furniture, is the four treasures of the study, calligraphy and painting, handicrafts and scattered books and albums everywhere. Her husband fully supported her career and took on all the housework.

As the chairman of Xinyu City Artists Association, she devoted all her thoughts and energy to painting in addition to working in the countryside, collecting wind and experiencing life, collecting materials and fulfilling her duties. She pays more attention to daily sketching observation, likes to be in nature, understand various forms of things, and feel the ways and means of creation from nature. Due to the deep feelings, almost rarely enter entertainment and entertainment and other social places. Although her mobile phone had WeChat functions, she rarely looked at it, let alone chat with others. Take this exhibition for example, when classmates and friends learned on WeChat posters that she would hold an exhibition in Shanghai, they praised and congratulated one after another, but they did not respond for a long time. Friends really can't stand it, call to remind her, only reply and apologize.

Her obsession with art did make people misunderstand that she had a sense of aloofness. However, it is precisely because of her loneliness and hardship that she has achieved her success and brilliance today. When the reporter who interviewed her asked her: Are you satisfied with this state of life? I am very happy, but I am sorry for my family, I owe them too much. Don't you feel lonely and lonely? She said frankly: behind the loneliness there is Qinghuan, this kind of light happy feeling let me enjoy very much.