Su Shishu talks about calligraphy, Feng Yuan talks about Chinese painting, Xu qinsong talks about landscape painting, fan Dean talks about oil painting, Wu Weishan talks about sculpture... It is really rare to gather the wonderful lectures of first-class calligraphers and painters in the field of contemporary Chinese art in one art work. Recently, Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House launched a collection of lectures, which has attracted wide attention of art lovers.

    "The art of calligraphy and painting is a very important part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and it is the concentrated expression of people's artistic creativity in different times." Xie Dong, vice president and deputy chief editor of Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House, introduced that this is a work produced by relying on the "series of lectures on calligraphy and painting art" of the calligraphy and painting room of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. The first-class calligraphers and painters in China give lectures and collate the contents into a book, and then there is this "series of lectures on calligraphy and painting art ① - six lectures on art appreciation".

    The six lectures cover four art categories: calligraphy, Chinese painting, oil painting and sculpture. The five authors are deputy directors of the calligraphy and painting room of the CPPCC National Committee. Su Shishu, honorary chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, gave a lecture on the inheritance and appreciation of Chinese calligraphy and the thousand year old style of the ink rhyme family - "appreciation of the calligraphy style of the two kings", Feng Yuan, honorary chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, gave a lecture on the appreciation of the classical works of Chinese painting in the past dynasties, Xu qinsong, former vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association and former chairman of the Guangdong Federation of literary and art circles, gave a lecture on the appreciation of Chinese landscape painting, and the president of the Central Academy of fine arts Fan Dean, chairman of China Artists Association, gave a lecture on the historical process of oil painting from the west to China, and Wu Weishan, director of China Art Museum, gave a lecture on sculpture and humanities.

    "These six lectures basically cover the mainstream art creation field in China's art circles. The contents of the lectures take historical development as the main line and rely on art works, and outline the history and style changes in these four art fields in simple terms." Li Yongqiang, Professor of Guangxi Art Institute and executive editor of art exploration, commented.

    Both Li Yongqiang and Xie Dong believe that a good art book should not only have rigorous annotations and academic norms from professional research groups, but also be suitable for ordinary art lovers to read, which can improve the aesthetic quality of public art.

    In the series of lectures on calligraphy and painting ① - six lectures on art appreciation, readers can follow Su Shishu to understand the development and different characteristics of oracle bone inscriptions, gold inscriptions, stone drum inscriptions, small seal characters, official script, cursive script, regular script and running script, and can distinguish the calligraphy style, development inheritance and future influence of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi; You can follow Feng Yuan to understand the aesthetic tradition, form and mounting system of Chinese painting, and appreciate the classics of Chinese painting in the past dynasties; You can listen to Xu qinsong's introduction to various techniques of landscape painting, such as hemp chapping, axe splitting chapping, lotus leaf chapping, and evaluate the character, ink and artistic conception of landscape painting; You can listen to van Dyan talk about the origin of oil painting and the characteristics of modeling system, and evaluate the representative painters and works of oil painting schools in each historical stage together; We can think deeply about what Wu Weishan said about how Chinese contemporary sculpture can absorb the essence of Chinese and western traditional sculpture, and have both the innovative spirit of the Chinese nation and the spirit of the times.

    "It is not like those strict academic works, which have many annotations and profound meanings. Instead, it tells the story in a story telling manner, guiding the reader to enter the art world, and speaking the professional terms in a popular way, which enhances the interest and readability." Li Yongqiang likes the "popularity" of this book.

    "It has both ancient traditional fine arts and contemporary fine arts that highlight the spirit of the times; it takes the history and contemporary creation of Chinese fine arts as the core, and includes the history and theory of Western fine arts; it has both rational analysis and perceptual interpretation, and can let readers receive professional knowledge from different angles." Li Yongqiang prefers the "specialty" of this book.