山水花鳥越百年 

 

嶺南畫派於清朝晚期由廣東畫家組成，至今已有一百二十年歷史。經歷了三代傳人的創新和努力，嶺南畫派成為現代中國畫中的佼佼者，是中國近代中極具影響力的畫派。 

 

嶺南畫派以「折衷中外，融匯古今」為宗旨，屬革新畫派，且無地域之限。三代的嶺南畫派畫家學都學貫中西、融會古今。他們認為必須破除因循守舊與故步自封的觀念，反對「師以臨摹教其徒，父以臨摹教其子」的舊習。嶺南畫派的作品題材多元化，包含山水花鳥、魚蟲走獸等，為現代中國畫寫下全新的一頁。 

 

這次活動共展出六幅精選嶺南派畫作，皆以山水花鳥為主題。承蒙  香港文化博物館惠允，借出館藏畫作圖片；亦承蒙  何永祥先生厚愛，借出其大作圖片，讓我們有機會一睹「折衷中西，融滙古今」的嶺南畫派作品，欣賞到畫家們如何以兼工帶寫、彩墨並重的獨特藝術手法，寫出屬於嶺南畫的春秋百年。 

 

 

 

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“Landscape, Flowers, and Birds Over a Century” 

 

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Guangdong painters have established the Lingnan School of painting during the revolutionary movement in the late Qing Dynasty, and it has already developed for more than 120 years until nowadays. The innovative changes attributed to the three generations of Lingnan School Masters have successfully led the Lingnan School to become one of the most influential and representative schools of painting in Chinese Contemporary Art. 

 

The Lingnan School of painting is not referring to the geographical restrictions, but a revolutionary school that innovates painting by “eclecticism between East and West, and bridging the past and the present”. This significant idea remains in Lingnan School of painting from generation to generation. Lingnan School painters believed that the conservative Chinese painters should stop instructing students to imitate masterpiece paintings from the past. Disparate from the other school of painting, Lingnan School is characteristic of innovation and inclusiveness. It depicts a wide variety of subjects, including landscapes, bird-and-flower, fishes, insects, and animals. Therefore, the Lingnan School of painting contributed a great deal to the history of Chinese Art. 

 

This activity selects six pictures of the Lingnan School of painting. Thanks must go to the Hong Kong Heritage Museum for lending us precious pictures of bird-and-flower paintings. Thanks must also go to Mr. Ho Wing-cheong, the third generation of the Lingnan school artist, for his generous support and kindly lending his landscape painting pictures.

These pictures could offer a glimpse into the innovative painting techniques of the Lingnan School – “making the best of the Chinese and Western worlds, and bridging the past and the present”, and reveal its significant influence on Chinese Contemporary Art.