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《漠上》 中国画 105cm×105cm 1988年

  在《漠上》《雪线》《墟日》等作品中,我们可以捕捉到他画笔间流露出的艺术个性的张扬。画面中蕴藏着或恬淡醇厚,或淡泊宁谧,或粗犷血性的原生态图景是对少数民族纯朴民风最具诗意、抒情的发掘与表现。

"Chinese Painting on desert 105cm × 105cm 1988 Nian

In the desert on the "snow line" Market Day "and other works, we can capture the artistic personality reveals his brush between assertive. The original ecological landscape screen bears tranquil and mellow, or indifferent serenity, or rough bloody simple folk customs of ethnic minorities most poetic lyrical excavations performance.



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《晚风》 中国画 180cm×160cm 1991年

  在众多描绘改革开放的总设计师邓小平的形象中,刘大为的《晚风》是给人印象最深的一幅作品。画家没有把这位世纪伟人塑造成一种铁腕政治家的形象,而是撷取他闲暇在庭院读报小憩的场景,以一种晚风中纯朴的诗意捕捉这位伟人的心境。纯朴的诗意,正是《晚风》塑造邓小平形象的审美意境。

Evening breeze "Chinese painting 180cm × 160cm 1991

Many depicting the reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of the image, Liu Dawei "the evening wind" is the most impressive piece of work. The painter did not molded into the this century great man is the image of an iron-fisted politicians, but to capture his free newspaper in the courtyard the rest of the scene to capture the state of mind of this great man to an evening breeze simplicity poetic. Simplicity of poetic, it is the aesthetic mood of the evening breeze "shape Deng Xiaoping's image.


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《雪线》 中国画 240cm×200cm 2004年

"Snow line" of Chinese painting 240cm × 200cm 2004


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《墟日》 中国画 124cm×150cm 2009年
"Market Day" Chinese painting 124cm × 150cm 2009

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《工地 组图》 中国画 250cm×110cm 2009年 资料提供 / 中国美术家协会 北京大唐国瓷艺术院

  刘大为是新时期在工笔人物画和水墨写意人物画两个领域都取得非凡成就的画家,他的《晚风》《马背上的民族》《漠上》《巴扎归来》和《雪线》不仅已成为新时期中国画的代表作,而且,他所塑造的当代人文形象已成为具有这个时代审美精神的民族形象。

  上世纪70年代末,伴随着新时期文艺春天的到来,中国画创作从极左主义的思想禁锢中冲决出来。乡土写实美术开始让画家们摆脱公式化、概念性的创作模式,工笔人物画家从这种时代的审美思潮中反观他们曾经拥有的生活土壤,并从中获取了源源不断的创作灵感与激情。当时的许多工笔人物画,便是从这样的审美追求中对少数民族纯朴的民风予以诗意的、抒情的发掘与表现。

  在表现内蒙古大草原的工笔人物画方面,刘大为便是其时突出的代表。刘大为的工笔人物画发掘了蕴藏在那个粗犷、血性和霸悍的民族中的一种纯朴的诗意,从而重塑了一个当代审美中的游牧民族的形象。

  刘大为的工笔人物画不完全是工笔重彩,也不完全是工笔淡彩,而是介于重彩和淡彩之间。在形象的塑造上,偏于写实,是依据客观对象予以必要的简化和适度的夸张,甚至于在写实的形象中寻找内在结构的抽象意味。他的形象塑造具有典型的线条勾勒的工笔画语言特征,线条巧妙地隐现于轮廓与结构之中,有机地游刃于形象与色彩之间。他的渲染水色互融、淡彩慢染,并在渲染之中体现出写的笔意,从而体现了工中见写、繁中求简的艺术特色。去火、去躁、去滞、去板,而求灵、求活、求静、求雅,则一直是刘大为追求的艺术境界。



"Site Photos" Chinese painting 250cm × 110cm information / Chinese Artists Association, Beijing Datang country porcelain art hospital

Liu Dawei new era painter, his evening breeze on horseback nation "have made remarkable achievements in the two areas of brushwork figure and Ink impressionistic portraits desert on" Bazaar Returns "and" snow line "has become not only a masterpiece of Chinese painting in the new era, he shaped the contemporary human image has become a national image of the aesthetic spirit of this era.

The end of the 1970s, along with the arrival of spring in Literature and Art, Chinese paintings from the gulag of the ultra-leftist ideology tore asunder. Local realism art painters began to get rid of formulaic, the conceptual creation mode, meticulous figure painter from this era of aesthetic thought the other hand, the lives they once had soil, and derive a steady stream of inspiration and passion. Many brushwork figure is to be poetic simple folk from this aesthetic pursuit of ethnic minorities, lyrical excavations performance.

Brushwork figure performance of the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, Liu Dawei is prominent when its representatives. Liu Dawei brushwork figure to explore the potential in that rough, bloody tyrants, defended the nation in a rustic poetry, which reshaped the image of the nomads in a contemporary aesthetic.

Liu Dawei meticulous portraits incomplete color meticulous, not entirely meticulous pastel, but somewhere between re-color and pastel. The characterization are somewhat realistic, based on objective object be necessary to simplify and moderate exaggeration, even in the realistic image of looking for the internal structure of the abstract means. He's Portrayal of the the Meticulous language characteristics typical lines sketched cleverly lines have surfaced in the outline and structure, organic maneuver in between the image and the colors. Color rendering based insights, the pastel slow dyeing, and embodied in the rendering into a written document intended, and which embodies see written in the work, fan in artistic characteristics for Jane. Internal heat, to impatient, to stagnation, to board, for the sake of spiritual seeking life, seeking quiet, Elegant, Liu Dawei pursue artistic realm.


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河南洛阳:“科技大篷车”里过新年
Luoyang, Henan Province: "Technology caravan" in the New Year


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2013年1月1日,河南省洛阳市,中小学生正在洛阳科技馆“科技大篷车”内免费参观低碳农业科普视频演示。
元旦当日,中国科技协会“科技大篷车”低碳生活专题展开进洛阳科技馆,为节日里的中小学生提供了一份动手体验,充分感受科技魅力、学习科普知识的科技大餐。


January 1, 2013, in Luoyang City, Henan Province, schoolchildren being Luoyang Museum of Science and Technology "Technology caravan free admission to low-carbon agricultural science video presentation.
New Year's day, the China Association for Science and Technology "Technology caravan" low-carbon life topics expand into Luoyang Science and Technology Museum, a hands-on experience for primary and secondary school students in the festival, to fully experience the charm and Technology, learning science knowledge, science and technology feast.

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The Great Wall in Shanxi 山西長城 relics can be found in over 40 counties in nine cities in Shanxi Province and this section was always serving as the barrier to protect Beijing in ancient times. The wall was built along the contour of the Taihang Mountain Range that blocked the enemies from reaching the plain in Beijing proper. The overall length in Shanxi is over 3,500 km (2,145 miles).


A map of the entire Great Wall
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A map of all the passes 关 of Shanxi that protected Beijing
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Guguan Shanxi 谷关 located about 35 km Yangquan City 阳泉市 in Shanxi Province, and about 15 km to Niangzi Pass 娘子关, Guguan Pass Great Wall is strategically situated and difficult of access. Together with the famous Niangzi and Jiuguan Passes, it is an important fortified place in Chinese dynasties.

Guguan Pass Great Wall is the only complete ancient wall built of stone which is still extant in China. It was first built in Zhongshan State in Spring and Autumn Periods (770 BC - 476 BC), about 155 years before the Great Wall in Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 206 BC) and reconstructed in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It was one of the four famous passes to the west of Beijing in Ming Dynasty (the other three were Juyongguan 居庸关, Zijingguan 紫荆关 and Daomaguan 倒马关).

The Guguan Pass Great Wall was first repaired in October, 1998 by the villagers living at the foot of the wall. They are said to be the descendents of the soldiers who once guarded the pass. Could not bear to see the wall built by their forefathers left eroded, they decided to raise funds to reconstruct the wall.


The main pass tower of Guguan
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Turn around view from the tower
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A reconstructed tower
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The wall was reconstructed in a modern stucco style, (sign)
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Guguan Shanxi 谷关


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A soldier guarding the pass
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Some villages near by. You can see the wall was built with the purpose blocking the mountain pass
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Enemies can be trapped in this narrow passageway even if they muscled the gate
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The second tower of Guguan
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Double walled defense
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Narrow cobblestone walkway
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Just out of curiosity, What is the upkeep cost of a structure as old as the wall? Does China get acid raid due to the pollution from thermal power generation plants? This, I asked because we in North America have experienced in the past but the pollution is under control due to dismantling of thermal power plants in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Thanks once again for your contribution to showcase China on this forum.
 
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You can clearly see these cobblestones walkways have been smooth out by the soldiers booths, horse shoes and chariot wheels for hundreds of years
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I'm sure these are not original stone walls
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The other side of the pass
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There are more defensive elements of the wall themselves
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Nice view
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Just out of curiosity, What is the upkeep cost of a structure as old as the wall? Does China get acid raid due to the pollution from thermal power generation plants? This, I asked because we in North America have experienced in the past but the pollution is under control due to dismantling of thermal power plants in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Thanks once again for your contribution to showcase China on this forum.


From this section of the wall westward most of the Great Wall was either decayed of buried due to neglects and time elements so there's no costs to speak of. Most of the sections, east or west of Guguan, that were rebuilt and renovated as tourist attractions, are mostly money cows. Of course anything that built with concretes requires minimal maintenance.

Acid rain on stone and brick structures? LOL you worry too much!
 
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Photo taken on Jan 4, 2013 shows a "year of snake" stamp, which is to be formally released on Jan. 5, at Handan Post Office in Handan, North China's Hebei province. The lunar year 2013 is the "Year of the Snake" in the Chinese zodiac. The stamp of "year of snake" will be released by China Post on Saturday. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Chinese-French artist Li Zhongyao shows "Year of the Snake" stamps in Paris, France on Jan 4, 2013. France's post department on Friday released "Year of the Snake" stamps designed by Li and French artists to embrace 2013, the "Year of the Snake" on Chinese lunar calendar. [Photo/Xinhua]


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Chinese-French artist Li Zhongyao signs an autography for a buyer of "Year of the Snake" stamps in Paris, France on Jan 4, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]
 
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China's Li Na returns while playing against Bojana Jovanonski of Serbia in the Shenzhen Gemdale Open quarterfinals on Thursday in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. Li won 6-3, 6-3 to reach the semis, where she will face compatriot Peng Shuai. [Photo by Wu Jun / For China Daily]

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Li Na is going to kiss the trophy after beating the fifth seed, Klara Zakopalova, from Czech 6-3 1-6 7-5 in the final of the Shenzhen Open on Saturday, January 4, 2013. [Photo: icpress.cn]

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Li Na (R) and Klara Zakopalova. [Photo: icpress.cn]


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Li Na poses for photos with the trophy - her first of the new year! [Photo: icpress.cn]

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Not bad at all! [Photo: icpress.cn]
 
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29th Harbin Int'l Ice and Snow Festival Opens
2013-01-05 22:36:52 Xinhua Web Editor: Zhang Zhang

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A visitor takes an ice slide in the Ice and Snow World during the 29th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 5, 2013. The festival kicked off on Saturday. [Photo: Xinhua/Wang Jianwei]

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Winter Clothes Show Times have Changed
2013-01-04 12:02:17 China Daily Web Editor: Yangyang
Winter fashion trends have changed over the years as people's material well-being has improved. In the 1970s in the less developed areas of China joining the military was a good career choice for young people, and the green overcoats worn by soldiers during the winter came to symbolize a better future for many. They were also practical, keeping their wearers warm when they were out in the cold and serving as a quilt when necessary.

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Zhang Yimou attends a ceremony organized for his film Red Sorghum in Beijing in 1987. Based on a novel by Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan, the film won the Golden Bear Award at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. [Photo: China Daily]

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A 7-month-old boy wears a bear-eared baby romper suit in Beijing on Dec 23. [Photo: China Daily]

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Niangziguan 娘子关 is a mountain pass west of Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei Province in North China. One of the major passages from Shanxi Province to Hebei Province across the Taihang Mountain. Surrounded by a maze of hills and valleys, Niangziguan Pass was famed as "the Ninth Pass on the Great wall". The extant pass was built in 1542 during the Ming Dynasty. The pass is flanked by hills more than l,000 metres high with the Tao River, twists its way through the valleys below. In ancient times this provided a narrow passage for men and horses. Story went Princess Pingyang of the first Tang Emperor was once garrisoned here, here the name.

It was near here around Xizhou 忻州, the 8th route Army led by Lin Biao and separately the KMT's National Revolution Army, fought more than 22 battles with the Japanese Imperial Army during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War and managed to kill more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers.


Taihang Shan Mountains 太行山 works as a natural barrier, blocking Beijing Proper from the West, with sporadic valleys in between. Hence the many guans in Shanxi act in that purpose alone
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Here are few old photos of Niangziguan 娘子关 which shows the tower blocking the only forward route for enemy troops. That makes defending this valley must easier
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A restored picture. Better to view but it doesn't capture the harshness of reality and history.
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Niangziguan 娘子关 The Ninth Pass Under The Heaven 天下第九关
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