Just several days ago, Zhang Hong‘s Abstract Visual Art Exhibition with the theme of “New Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival Picture” was held in the National Museum of China. If the students love Chinese painting when they come to learn Chinese in China, they might have heard about the picture named Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival which was drew in the Song Dynasty of great prosperity. It portrays the prosperous and lively scenes and also the beautiful natural landscape in the capital city Bianliang and the riverside of Bianhe River.

What displayed on this exhibition is the New Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival Picture. The large scroll picture is as long as 105 meters and as high as 2.38 meters. The main contents of this picture are the prosperity as well as the developing process of the petty commodities city Yiwu city in China. Comparing with the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival in Song Dynasty, the artistic conception of this picture is different in approach but equally satisfactory in result. And the differences between them lay in the techniques of expression.

One thing you should know is that the New Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival Picture is not just a pure painting, but a large picture taken by the view camera and combined by the digital technology. In fact, it is completed on the basis of pure photograph and decorated with the artistic methods. It looks like a cross boundary works with the combination of multi elements like watercolor, traditional Chinese painting and oil painting.

In order to complete this works, Zhang Hong took thousands of pictures, ranging from the large format photos and digital files, with the capacity of 3000G. In the later artistic processing period, he adjusted the painting over and over again. If you have seen this picture when you study in summer program in China, you can see the ancient relic walls and the modern city are combined together and Yiwu city is portrayed as a running lion to indicate the development speed of this city.

This piece of works was exhibited in Yiwu Culture Exhibition on 29th and will last for May 10th. The scroll picture is so large and magnificent that many people are attracted. In addition, more abstract visual artistic works created by Zhang Hong will be also exhibited in the exhibition at the same time. If you are interested, you should go for it yourself.