Innovation in Continuity: Creativi ty and Tradition.
Please note lectures are in Mandar in Chinese. Admission is Free.
At the turn of the 20th centu ry\, China began a period of adaptation to tumultuous social and political changes. A series of events punctuating the last century compelled and insp ired painters in China to oscillate between innovation and continuity of pa st styles. After a century of social turmoil and cultural agony\, tradition al Chinese ink painting did not vanish\; recent developments in ink paintin g attest to the revitalization of literati art values in the late 20th cent ury.
INTRODUCTION
In a series of five lectures\, Dr. Tsao Hsingy
uan explores the continuity of memory\, and traces how selected art objects
and paintings of China from the Neolithic period to the 20th century are r
ecords of the past. In the first talk of the series\, Art for Eternity: Rit
ual and Mortuary Offerings\, Dr. Tsao reveals how massive bronze vessels an
d small portable jade pieces testify to a sense of extended time. In Painti
ng the Paragons: Figurative Painting of the Han and Tang\, tomb art and scr
olls from the Han to Tang dynasties show how personal and legendary tales w
ere models for emulation. Referencing Antiquity: Values of Literati Art out
lines how Literati Art theory\, through promoting the use of the past\, pus
hes painting to breathtaking compositions and styles. Innovation in Continu
ity: Creativity and Tradition discusses how the values of Literati Painting
have endured and manifested in art of the 20th century. In the final lectu
re\, Private Passions: Collecting and Collections\, selections from promine
nt collections of books\, paintings and calligraphy in Vancouver will be fe
atured in a discussion on the impact of art collections on cultural landsca
pes.
DR. TSAO HSINGYUAN received her M.A. degrees from the Central Ac ademy of Art in Beijing and the University of California Berkeley\, and her Ph.D from Stanford University. She currently teaches Chinese art at UBC in the Department of Art History\, Visual art & Theory.
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