Cheng Shifa Art Museum has six areas: life exhibition area, original exhibits area, life scene area, public exhibition area, art seminar area and administrative office area. Among them, the original exhibition area displayed 80 ancient paintings and calligraphy collections donated by Cheng Shifa to his hometown people on June 5438+0 1, 2005, which restored Cheng Shifa's life scenes in Songjiang from 1923 to 195 1.
The ancient buildings of Cheng Shifa Art Museum have deep feelings for Mr. Cheng Shifa. Qu Zhai is the exhibition area of his life. Shopkeeper Qu was a good friend of Cheng Shifa when he was young. On 1946, they performed the Peking Opera "Empty City Plan" in Songjiang. The original exhibition area was the courtyard of Wang Zhai, and the owner's name was Wang Zhishan. 1938, Cheng Shifa was admitted to the Chinese Painting Department of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts from Songjiang; 1940, Cheng Shifa married Zhang Jinqi, a classmate of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, upstairs in Wangzhai; 1950, Cheng Shifa created the first cartoon "Wild Pig Forest" here, and later created several cartoons. The building in the exhibition area of Gong * * is the former residence of Changyuan. Although he has no direct life relationship with Mr. Cheng Shifa, Mr. Cheng Shifa has loved reading Chang Yuan Zhuan since he was a child, and he is a long-time friend and highly respected. Chang Yuan was a scholar in Guangxu period. He opposed Cixi's attack on foreign embassies. Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing and lied about defeating the enemy. Chang Yuan wrote to expose the truth, but he was killed. Mr. Cheng Shifa once commented: "Chang Yuan, the owner of the old house next door to my house, was a big shot in the Qing Dynasty."
The location of Cheng Shifa Art Museum was chosen by Cheng Shifa himself when he returned to his hometown in 2005. He said: "My ancestral home is in Fengjing Town, Lou County, Songjiang Prefecture (now Fengjing Town, Jinshan District), and my former residence is in Songjiang City. Wang Zhai is my hometown and my home where I have lived for decades. " He also said that he would donate the last batch of famous paintings and his own works to Songjiang, which raised him. In order to respect Mr. Cheng Shifa's wishes, the museum set up an original exhibition area. At the same time, the design style of the art museum is combined with Mr. Cheng Shifa's kind and easy-going voice and smile, showing a simple, peaceful and harmonious style.
There is a bronze statue of Cheng Shifa in the front hall of the art museum, with the stone arch bridge in Songjiang as the background, as if Cheng Shifa was coming down from the bridge. Relying on the memories and historical materials of Mr. Cheng Shifa's eldest son, Zhu Cheng, the life exhibition area of the Art Museum displays a large number of precious historical photos, real life objects and original publications of Cheng Shifa's works.
The doorplates, couplets and brocade patterns of the art museum not only contain the traditional cultural background of Songjiang, but also are closely related to Mr. Cheng Shifa's cultural interest. The scene of Mo Chi, a perch town, is because Mr. Cheng Shifa loves to draw four-gill perch in Songjiang, and often signs his calligraphy and painting with "Perch Town People", "Cheng Shifa in the Cloud" and "Songjiang People".
The large-scale brick murals in the square of the Art Museum have shaped dozens of cultural celebrities such as Lu Ji in Jin Dynasty, Lu Yun, Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty, four outstanding figures in the late Yuan Dynasty, Dong Qichang, Chen Jiru and Cheng Shifa in Ming Dynasty. This mural, named "Mo Yuan", shows the cultural scene of the ancients before the newcomers.