「宇宙心印：劉國松繪畫一甲子」新聞稿

Rising Toward Mysterious Whiteness
     《升向白茫茫的未知 》
94×58cm
1963年

北京故宮博物院將於2007年4月26日下午兩點半，在故宮武英殿為劉國松舉辦“宇宙心印：劉國松繪畫一甲子”展覽開幕式。展覽由中華文化基金會籌辦，李鑄晉教授、張頌仁教授擔任策展人，展覽時間至5月26日止。

劉國松在上世紀六十年代在台灣即大膽提出以放棄筆墨語言，來解決“中國畫的現代化”的問題。他要“革中鋒的命、革筆的命”。他説：“筆就是點和線，墨就是色和面，皴就是肌理”；“模倣新的，不能代替模倣舊的；抄襲西洋的，不能代替抄襲中國的”。透過西方抽象藝術的啟發，從而形成深具媒材實驗意識的前衛創作，背離傳統的筆法與意境。在作品的表現上，尋求各種前所未有的可能形式，並在“現代”與“水墨”的雙重議題上，尋求最大的結合與突破。他並在台灣成立五月畫會，以群體之力推動傳統書畫的變革，産生了深遠的影響。七十和八十年代在香港中文大學任教職，匯合了香港的新水墨界。八十年代初劉國松到大陸巡展，衝擊了當時亟待思變的畫壇，結識了吳冠中，鼓勵了谷文達。現代水墨因此成為中西文化融合的畫種。它是現代的，又是中國的；既是與西方對話的，又是民族的。

整個20世紀中國書畫的發展，是一部應對與因應“現代性問題”的焦慮史。到底書畫該如何追隨時代，迎上西方，趕上當代，而又不失了民族藝術之本體？在這一思考中，劉國松無疑有著舉足輕重的歷史影響。

如今，代表書畫正統與主流的故宮博物院為劉國松舉辦展覽，意味了創新的現代水墨藝術已被接納入正統體系之重大意義。

在展覽開幕隔日之4月27日，將在故宮由李鑄晉教授主持“書畫與現代化 : 書畫在現代藝術中的流變與波瀾”學術討論會。藉此展覽機會，將借劉國松現象對現代水墨的發展進行歷史回眸，全面反思“書畫與文藝現代化”的整體問題。探討五十年來書畫在現代藝術的各種衝擊下，到底出現什麼樣的理論與反思？到底産生了什麼樣的波瀾與變化？而我們應在目前的問題上繼續推進哪些問題與思考？

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Press Release
Universe in the Mind: 60 Years of Painting by Liu Guosong
Presented by the Palace Museum with the support of the Consortium Chinese Culture Foundation
Opening: 26th April, 2007, Thursday, 2:30 pm
Exhibition until 26th May, 2007
Opening Hours: 8:30am – 4:30pm
Artist will be present at the opening
Venue: Wu Ying Palace, Palace Museum, Beijing
   
LIU Kuo-sung, whose career as a leading painter in Taiwan, was born in 1932 in Anhui, China.  He moved to Taiwan in 1949 and graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University in 1956. 

In the 1960s in Taiwan Mr. Liu proposed to “modernise Chinese painting” by abandoning its attachment to traditional “aesthetics of brushwork and ink-play”. He proposed to “revolutionise the zhong-feng (centre-point) brushwork” and “revolutionise the brush”. Mr. Liu said: “Brushwork simply means dot and line, ink-work means colour tone and surface, and texture-stroke means textural structure.” “Imitating the new is not the same as imitating the old; copying the West is not the same as imitating Chinese masters.”

Inspired by western abstract painting, Mr. Liu established an experimental approach to the artistic medium in order to depart from traditional brushwork and its aesthetic taste. He attempted varied approaches to artistic expression, seeking resolution and breakthrough under the two anchors of “modern” and “ink art”. Through the “Fifth Moon” art society, of which Mr. Liu was founder, calligraphy-painting reform was expanded into an art movement in Taiwan. In the two decades of the 1970s and 1980s Mr. Liu was professor of art at the Chinese University in Hong Kong, and became closely involved with new ink painting outside of Taiwan. In the early 1980s his touring exhibition in China made a strong impact on the emerging creative scene, establishing a lasting influence. With the concerted efforts of artists from China and abroad modern Ink art has now established itself as an independent art form born of Chinese and western influence. It is both modern and Chinese, culturally grounded and in dialogue with the West.

In presenting the exhibition “Sixty Years a Painter: Retrospective Exhibition of Liu Guosong”, the Palace Museum, as the symbols of the Chinese lineage, signifies the acceptance of the innovative new ink painting movement into its cultural fold. Therefore, it is significant to take the opportunity of this retrospective exhibition to review the historical development of modern ink painting, so as to critically assess broader issues relating to calligraphy-painting and cultural modernisation. It is important to review the theories and strategies that have arisen in the part half century out of response to the growing predominance of modern art.

Fully illustrated catalogue published by the Forbidden City Press, sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ross.

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Purple Sun
     《紫色的太陽》
77.5×61cm
1970年

Monument 12, 
    《 矗立之十二 》
137×77cm
1967年