In October 2024, Department of Arts and Design of University of Macau successfully organised a series of three lectures, and on the 15th, Head of Department of Arts and Design, Professor Li Jun, together with Professor Ma Lu, Professor Liu Qinghe, and Professor Chen Shuxia, organised a Teacher-Student Seminar. The four lectures attracted many enthusiastic students and teachers.
The first lecture was held on 7th October, and Professor Yang Yang from Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University was invited as a UM short-term visiting scholar to give a lecture entitled ‘The Modern Application of Paper Cutting’. In the lecture, Professor Yang introduced one of the traditional Chinese art forms, paper-cutting, and analysed its history, types, functions and artistic characteristics. She cited paper-cutting art styles from various regions and combined them with modern paper-cutting art applications to illustrate the important functions and roles of paper-cutting art in contemporary society. In addition, she shared her own experiences in field research and practical creation, which Professor Yang regarded as an important node in the promotion of the art of paper-cutting. She has successfully combined the art of paper-cutting with social practice and hopes to promote the development of art and culture economy in the form of industries such as paper-cutting art workshops and paper-cutting art and culture parks.
Professor Yang Yang
On 14th October, Professor Chen Shuxia from the School of Art Management and Education of the Central Academy of Fine Arts was invited as a UM short-term visiting scholar to deliver a lecture on the theme of ‘Suspended Western Paintings’. Firstly, Professor Chen commented on the connection between Western painting and Chinese painting. In her opinion, Western painting is not an art form completely separated from Chinese painting. While maintaining its own characteristics, it can also be combined with elements of Chinese painting to form a new artistic expression. Western painting is not completely ‘non-Western’, but to a certain extent open and inclusive, able to absorb and integrate different cultural elements, including elements and styles of Chinese painting. Later, in order to explain the concept of ‘Western painting is not Western’, Professor Chen divided her own creative process into six parts, namely ‘Primary Colours, Space of Confidence, Virtual and Real, Within a Landscape, Forget the Form, and Margin’. The lecture will show the different stages of her art works to explain the changes in her artistic concepts.
Professor Chen Shuxia
On 21st October, Professor Liu Qinghe from the Central Academy of Fine Arts was invited to give a lecture on ‘Changes in Ink – Liu Qinghe’s Artistic Exploration and Contemporary Dialogue’, exploring his artistic creation over the past decades. Before the lecture, Professor Li Jun, Head of the Department of Arts and Design, presented Professor Liu with the certificate of ‘UM Distinguished Visiting Scholar in 2024’. As a leading figure in contemporary Chinese ink art, Professor Liu is known for his unique ‘New Generation’ and ‘ink’ style. This lecture is centred on Professor Liu’s artistic exploration since 1979. Taking representative works such as ‘Lin Chi’ and ‘Wind and Water’ as typical examples, the lecture focuses on how he has extensively developed artistic experiments in terms of syntax, themes, narratives, symbols and metaphors in his artistic career over the past 40 years, which have contributed to the evolution of his own artistic style, and how he has always maintained a resonance with contemporary art.
Professor Li Jun, Head of Department of Arts and Design, presented Professor Liu Qinghe with the certificate of ‘UM Distinguished Visiting Scholar in 2024’
Professor Liu Qinghe
At Teacher-Student Seminar on 15th October, Professor Li Jun, Professor Ma Lu, Professor Liu Qinghe and Professor Chen Shuxia discussed the ideas, inspirations and techniques of art creation, which benefited the teachers and students in the audience.
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