A large number of cultural relics in the Forbidden City were instructed by experts, exhibition equipment was added, and personnel were hired, and it took two months to open. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the opening, it ushered in countless tourists from the north and south of the river, among which a large number of them are Chinese cultural celebrities.

Yang Chao also stayed here, and still attached great importance to these cultural celebrities, and helped Sara introduce Qi Baishi, who lived in Beijing, so that she could worship everyone as a teacher, and patiently study the art of Chinese painting systematically.

At the same time, Yang Chao also began to organize these cultural celebrities, first to bring their art to Siberia for exhibition, and then to the world.

The older generation of Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi, the new generation of Xu Beihong and Zhang Daqian, during the period of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, countless famous artists emerged.

Far away are the great poets such as Xin Qiji and Lu You who emerged at the end of the Song Dynasty, many great writers in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the Siberian style set off by Russia.

It's the same in China, this is an era of master manufacturers, in this era, if you don't export Chinese culture, how long will you wait?

Chinese history, Chinese literature, Chinese art, these can all be displayed in front of Westerners.

And with the increase of China's hard power, China's voice in the international community has become louder, and now the world listens to China and pays attention to China There are too many countries than in the past, but hard power is not enough to set off a cultural trend that sweeps the world, just like the British culture in the first few hundred years and the American culture in the next hundred years, but now it is still necessary to play a front station.

As a wealthy person, Yang Chao sponsors the works of these famous artists to tour the world, which is also very suitable for status, and the rich people in the West like to fund art, which is a good habit and worth learning.

When they heard that Yang Chao wanted to exhibit their works all over the world, they were willing to come up with their best collections, many of which were not even their own works, but their treasures, which were not necessarily expensive, but unique.

In this way, Yang Chao quickly collected thousands of calligraphy and painting artworks, and asked the newly opened Palace Museum to select some Qing court treasures to form a huge exhibition cluster of 3,000 pieces, and exhibit them from country to country.

In addition to sponsoring exhibitions of these people's works, Yang Chao also invited them to revive Chinese art, inviting these masters to gather and set up an art academy, inviting not only painters and calligraphers, but also sculptors.

Of course, it is not conservative, not only to teach Chinese art, to promote and develop Chinese art for the purpose, but also not to prohibit the art of other civilizations, inclusiveness is the king, so it also hires Western painters as teachers, teaching Western painting art, not only Western, but also including Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, India, and even some African and American Native art should also be introduced for systematic research.

But there is a requirement, all students must receive the most formal Chinese painting and other art education, that is, the core of the thing must be Chinese, with the core of China, absorb the essence of other arts, what can be created, Yang Chao himself is very curious, but it is destined to usher in the great development of art.

And China has also reached the era of great development of art, the change of the country has allowed a large number of artists to have savings in their souls, and the country has then become rich and powerful, and has provided sufficient material guarantees, not only these masters, but also many not very famous painters, can also make a living from this, and more families can allow their children to receive art education, without being forced by the pressure of life, they can only let them go out to work realistically.

In the final analysis, art is a kind of luxury with money and leisure, destined to be a niche preference, with him will not make a country and a nation strong, and he will not make a country and a nation hungry, but Yang Chao believes that with him and without him is still different, this is a symbol of civilization, and civilization is what conquers people's hearts, the Mongolian saber can destroy countless countries, but the weak culture can be inherited for thousands of years.

Qi Baishi is also a professor at the Academy of Arts, and a first-class professor, enjoying a high salary of 1,000 taels per month, the academy is financially independent, free from any political influence, Yang Chao promised not to interfere with the creation of these artists, giving them the greatest freedom, the academy's source of funds is to accept social donations, many artists expressed their willingness to sell their works to support the academy's funds, but not yet needed, with Yang Chao taking the lead, a large number of vulgar capitalists who like fame and vassal elegance are willing to donate.

There are not many students, the college is just a start, and there is only one student confirmed at present, and that is the Jewish girl Sarah.

After Qi Baishi accepted this foreign student, he taught him attentively, although he found that Sarah's skills were not solid, but he had a rare agility, and his vision was very broad, probably with the worldview of the Jews, he had been exposed to a variety of painting arts, and he was not young but wandered in China, Japan, North Korea and Russia, these experiences were helpful for artistic creation.

Under the guidance of Qi Baishi, Sara threw away all her worries and began to enter the world of Chinese art, following Qi Baishi to learn authentic Chinese painting techniques one by one, splashing ink landscape painting, painting flowers and birds, painting figures and ladies, and so on.

At the same time, he also learned Chinese calligraphy from cultural masters like Qi Baishi, who taught him to trace a large number of inscriptions in Beijing, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties. He also took her to Beijing to collect wind from a large number of ancient buildings, murals in famous mountains and ancient temples, and statues of gods and Buddhas, all of which can absorb painting methods.

Sara's progress is great, the Academy of Fine Arts slowly got on the right track, she came into contact with more famous artists, followed the young Zhang Daqian and others began to travel east, west, north and south, visit famous mountains and rivers, meet old scribes, visit the garden courtyard in the south of the Yangtze River, go to Mount Emei to see the ancient temple, and finally squatted in Dunhuang for three months, depicting the Dunhuang murals that have also become museums.

Studying with these Chinese art elites, Sarah's level improved rapidly, and her Western world view, oil painting skills, slowly merged with Eastern art, and gradually something new was born. (To be continued.) )