Introduction to the attractions of Song Wenzhi Art Museum:
The profound cultural fertile soil here has nurtured hundreds of outstanding painters and painters in the history of painting. Chou Ying in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shimin and Wang Jian in the early Qing Dynasty opened the Loudongxian River; A large group of painters represented by Wang formed the base camp of Jiangnan landscape painting; After that, the brocade lasted for hundreds of years, such as "Little Four Kings" and "Last Four Kings". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the "Loudong Painting School" revived. With the help of two famous painters, Zhu Qizhan (1892- 1996) and Song Wenzhi (19-1999), Taicang's artistic achievements are well-known at home and abroad, attracting worldwide attention, and the people of Taicang are also proud of it. In order to carry forward the noble character and professionalism of the two masters, 1989 Taicang Municipal People's Government allocated funds to build Meihua Caotang and Song Wenzhi Art Museum. Song Wenzhi Art Museum is a public welfare institution, covering an area of 65,438+0,000 square meters. The main exhibition hall is antique with white walls and tiles. The rockery and lotus pond in the courtyard are elegantly arranged. Mr. Song Wenzhi's white marble statue is located between Jia Mu Xiu Zhu for tourists to watch. The Art Museum is next to Mr. Song Wenzhi's former residence "Songshizhai", where Gu Song embraced each other and accompanied by strange stones, which was the residence where Song Lao returned to his hometown to create works before his death.
Song Wenzhi Art Museum is a memorial hall for contemporary celebrities, with representative works donated by Mr. Song Wenzhi before his death, treasures of paintings and calligraphy in Ming and Qing Dynasties and unearthed cultural relics. At the same time, there are many excellent collections of contemporary paintings and calligraphy. In addition to being open to the public all the year round, the art museum also carries out academic research, calligraphy and painting exchange and personnel training. In the past ten years, the museum has held more than 60 exhibitions of various paintings and calligraphy, and the centennial exhibition of Zhu Qizhan has also been held here. He has received many painters and Chinese and foreign friends from Peng Chong, other countries, China, Japan and other countries, and received tens of thousands of tourists. Comrade Li Ruihuan, Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, wrote an inscription for the Song Wenzhi Art Museum: "The motherland is beautiful in mountains and rivers, and the painting is more brilliant". Art Museum is an important window of Taicang's socialist spiritual civilization and one of Taicang's rich cultural tourism landscapes. Welcome people from all walks of life at home and abroad to visit and guide.