1. Famous painters Liu Zhengwei and Xu Beihong Memorial Hall
Xu Beihong once lived in an elegant quadrangle at No.16 Dongshoulu Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. In 1953, on the day of Xu Beihong's death, Ms. Liao Jingwen and her family donated all the works of art left by Xu Beihong to the country. Premier Zhou Enlai wrote a calligraphy tablet for the former residence of Beihong. In 1954, the government established the "Xu Beihong Memorial Hall" based on the "Beihong Former Residence", which was the first individual artist memorial hall established at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Guo Moruo personally wrote the name of the "Xu Beihong Memorial Hall". The curator was Wu Zuoren, then president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Ms. Liao Jingwen was the curator since 1957. In order to better preserve Mr. Xu Beihong's posthumous works, as well as the famous paintings and calligraphy of past dynasties, tens of thousands of books, rubbings and rare works, he has also built a modern painting library. The famous painter Liu Zhengwei is a frequent visitor here. In the 197s and 198s, foreign friends and students came to China to study Chinese culture. Liu Zhengwei, a famous painter and painter, has been immersed in the art scope of Xu Beihong Memorial Hall for a long time after visiting the Great Wall Forbidden City with them. He has formed a deep China complex with China art treasures, learned the historical story of China, learned Chinese characters and opened the door to China culture.
In particular, the Seventh Exhibition Room displays 11 sketches, ranging from the human body exercises made by the painter at the French National Institute of Fine Arts and the Bahners Studio in his early years to the portraits of model workers and famous scholars in his later years, as well as The Ganges Castle, The Himalayan Forest, Gandhi, The Singapore Boatman, The Nepalese Girl and The Road of Jiming Temple. Deeply touched international friends. Teachers from UNESCO, such as Alexander, Delia and Yoni Erin, take students to visit here with Teacher Liu Zhengwei almost every year, and have forged a deep friendship.
2. In 23, the history of Liu Zhengwei, a painter and Chinese linguist, and Natalie Binkas, a French restoration painter, was reversed in p>1966. Mr. Xu Beihong's 1-meter-long giant oil painting "Yugong Yishan" was wrongly rolled up by the keeper, and he never dared to open it for so many years, because once he opened it, all the colors on it would fall off.
Mozong Guo, director of Xu Beihong Memorial Hall, told reporters: "There is a layer of bright oil on the oil painting. It takes 5 years to change. It has been 5 years since Xu Beihong died, which means that his works have gone through more than half a century, plus some man-made reasons. Many works have been damaged to varying degrees, and it is too late to save them.
With the strong support of National Cultural Heritage Administration and the municipal cultural relics department, it is on the agenda to invite French restoration experts to Beijing to repair paintings. However, domestic technicians, equipment and materials in painting conservation are extremely scarce. Liu Zhengwei, a Chinese language worker, and his students translated the requirements of the Louvre restoration experts and collected equipment, materials, paints and brushes from the Beijing market.
after more than ten days' efforts, remove the bright oil layer that has turned yellow and dark, reinforce the fragile supporting materials, fix the color that has begun to fall off back, and fill the fallen part according to the principle of reversibility. It needs to be repaired many times over the years. In order to thank international friends for their contributions to painting conservation, China, Professor Xu Qingping, son of Xu Beihong, and Liu Zhengwei, a famous painter, wrote China calligraphy for Natalie Binkas, a French painter, and the French painter also gave back the oil paintings of his hometown Burgundy winery.