Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1996

ART EXHIBITIONS Art Museum Exhibitions The A l t Museum organized four exhibitions between September 1995 and May 1996: • ‘Modern Paintings of Guangdong Artists' was held at the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art from 29th September to 26th November 1995. The exhibition featured 4 2 paintings by Gao Jianfu, and 23 other pieces of work by three generations of 'Lingnan painters': Ju Chao and Ju Lian, Gao Qifeng and Gao Jianseng, and Zhao Shao'ang and Guan Shanyue. These masterpieces reveal the transition, evolution and creativities of the influential Lingnan school of painting. The exhibition was jointl y sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office and the Osaka Municipal Museum of Art under the 'Hong Kong-Japan Partnership' programme. • ‘ Selections from the Art Museum Collection' has been staged at the east-wing galleries of the museum from 14th October 1995. Selected f r om the A r t Museum collection, a variety of art forms were featured to represent the heritage of Chinese culture. There were ceramics, tomb bricks, stone steles, as well as paintings and rubbings , ranging from the Han to the Qing dynasties . • ‘The World of Wong Po-yeh' was staged at the west-wing galleries of the museum from 21st October 1995 to 11th February 1996. Over 100 paintings by Wong Po-yeh (Huang Bore, 1901-1968) were exhibited. About 70 late-year paintings by the artist, presenting Hong Kong landscapes of the 1950s and 1960s w i th simple and spontaneous strokes with brush and ink, formed the core of the exhibition. Also included were some 50 paintings of traditional theme and sketches. • The Cheng Xu n Tang Collection of Painting and Calligraphy on Fans' was staged at the west-wing galleries of the museum from 9th March to 19th May 1996. The fan as a purely functional object has had a long history in China. The combination of painting and calligraphy with traditional fan crafting techniques produced a new art form. The folding fan in particular has aesthetic elements that are uniquely its own: its shape, material and fold s are both inspiring and challenging to artists. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the popularity of decorated fans enriched the development of painting and calligraphy. Some 180 pieces of fans by 160 artists of the M i n g and Qing periods were exhibited. The Art Museum also published a fully illustrated 400- page catalogue of the exhibition, and organized lectures an d a demonstration to accompany the function. Wang Yuanqi L a n d s c a p e a f t er Wang M e n g 46