Hong Kong Museum of Art
Established in 1962, Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) is the first public museum in the city, now custodian of an art collection of over 18,800 items, representing the unique cultural legacy of Hong Kong's connection across the globe. By curating a wide world of contrasts, from old to new, Chinese to Western, local to international, with a Hong Kong viewpoint, we aspire to refreshing ways of looking at tradition and making art relevant to everyone, creating new experiences and understanding.
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Wu Guanzhong Sketching from Nature
<p style="text-align: justify;">"My experiences of beauty stem from everyday life. This is what I have been continuously seeking wherever I travelled over the past years. I have been staying true to my feelings and emotions which were nurtured by my native soil, therefore the beauty I sought often emanates a scent of soil and nature." ──Wu Guanzhong<br><br>Sketching in nature has been one of the main sources where Wu Guanzhong got inspiration for his art creation throughout the 60 years of his artistic career. This exhibition showcases around 30 paintings and sketches of Wu Guanzhong and present to the audience the artistic theories that he realised during the process of sketching, and also the development of his paintings from sketches.</p>
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A Journey into Wu Guanzhong's Jiangnan
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is an arts education documentary series co-produced by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. The 6-episode programme centers around the works depicting Jiangnan’s landscape, which were given to Hong Kong, created by the contemporary Chinese painting master WU Guanzhong. It will also explain in detail WU’s aesthetic perception and artistic style.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The first five episodes will bring the audience to Yixing, Shaoxing, Suzhou, Zhejiang and Anhui to search for WU’s footprints during his years spent on sketching in Jiangnan, in order to present the scenery of the water town, old villages, gardens, etc. to the audience and give a more in-depth introduction on the linkage between Jiangnan and the master’s paintings; in episode 6, we will travel back from Jiangnan to Hong Kong and explain WU’s connection with Hong Kong on his art journey.</p>
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A Pleasure in Art: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Appreciation
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Hong Kong Museum of Art has developed an art education programme in partnership with the Design and Cultural Studies Workshop for the appreciation of the art of Chinese painting and calligraphy. By means of animated images, this project will feature and interpret some of the fundamental ideas or subject matters of Chinese art in a simple and vivid approach.</p>
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Jockey Club Education Programmes: A Chinese Scholar's Studio Tour
<p style="text-align: justify;">These 4 animations of “Jockey Club Education Programmes: A Chinese Scholar's Studio Tour” Online Resources inspire audiences to expand imagination and appreciation of Chinese landscape painting, ceramics, jade-carving and sericulture from a whole new perspective.</p>
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Little Heads · Big Discovery
<p style="text-align: justify;">Art is an important life experience during child development. According to psychologist Howard Gardner, art education can open up multiple intelligences in children and lay solid groundwork for holistic development.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"Little Heads · Big Discovery" is a series of parent-child art enlightenment resources for children aged 2 - 6. Parents and children are invited to enter the vibrant and multifarious world of art through entertaining ways of learning from these alphabet cards and resources. Children could explore artworks of various times, styles and materials in the museum collections. This unique set of resources also cultivates concentration, aesthetic judgment, exploration, comprehension and expression, all important building blocks of multiple intelligences for the little brains. Indeed, all are welcome to try this novel art journey and experience diverse art from a whole new angle.</p>
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Beyond Seeing: A Multisensory Art Project
<p style="text-align: justify;">In collaboration with the Beyond Vision Projects, the Hong Kong Museum of Art has launched the “Beyond Seeing: A Multisensory Art Project” since September 2021, delivering a series of on-site and outreach accessible art experiences for people with visual impairment and low vision. Through different forms of sensorial engagements, the project offers them a brand new experience in exploring the world of art.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The project comprises a sequence of exhibition guide booklets with Braille, tactile graphics are specially designed for the selected exhibitions.</p>
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"In Touch with Hong Kong Artists – A School-based Art Learning Pilot Programme" Senior Primary Teaching Kits: OU Da-wei
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Chinese literati take pride in excelling at poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal carving. OU Da-wei’s profound knowledge of these four types of art makes him a modern literati artist. OU is sensitive to his daily life, where he finds inspiration for his poetry, calligraphy and seal works in his surroundings, personal experiences and global issues. He excels in infusing a modern style and spirit into traditional and ancient art forms. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This course improves students’ understanding and appreciation of traditional Chinese art through appreciating and studying OU’s art. The students will create works related to everyday living using traditional Chinese materials and methods.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Teaching goals:<br>1. Learn about OU’s poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal work through his video.<br>2. Learn about and appreciate OU’s leisure seals.<br>3. Learn about the characteristics of zhuwen (red character style) and baiwen (white character style) seals.<br>4. Create zhuwen (red character style) leisure seals using the collage technique.</p>
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"In Touch with Hong Kong Artists – A School-based Art Learning Pilot Programme" Junior Secondary Teaching Kits: OU Da-wei
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Chinese literati take pride in excelling at poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal carving. OU Da-wei’s profound knowledge of these four types of art makes him a modern literati artist. OU is sensitive to his Daly life, where he finds inspiration for his poetry, calligraphy and seal works in his surroundings, personal experiences and global issues. He excels in infusing a modern style and spirit into traditional and ancient art forms. <br><br>This course improves students’ understanding and appreciation of traditional Chinese art through appreciating and studying OU’s art. The students will create works related to everyday living using traditional Chinese materials and methods.<br><br>Teaching goals:<br>1. Learn about OU’s poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal work through his video.<br>2. Learn about and appreciate OU’s use of seal script and its composition in seal carving.<br>3. Appreciate the meaning of short texts in leisure seals.<br>4. Learn about the characteristics of zhuwen (red character style) and baiwen (white character style) seals.<br>5. Learn about the creation and use of reverse images.<br>6. Learn master seal inscription techniques.</p>
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Honouring Tradition and Heritage: Min Chiu Society at Sixty
<p style="text-align: justify;">Commemorating its 60th anniversary in 2021, the Min Chiu Society, formed by a group of art collectors in Hong Kong, has been an important cultural force devoted to fostering intellectual exchange and collecting, studying and promoting Chinese art. Guided by its founding ethos––"an earnest pursuit of classic knowledge, with a passion for antiquity"––the Society's art collections are eclectic, ranging from Chinese paintings and calligraphy, ceramics, jade, glass, lacquer wares, carvings in bamboo and wood, furniture, textiles as well as China Trade arts. This exhibition presented the very best of Chinese art from the collections of Society members. Over 300 works of art were featured, bringing the artistic and cultural taste of Chinese imperial courts and literati across generations.</p>
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Avowal through Withdrawal: Selected Paintings and Calligraphies from the Chih Lo Lou Collection
<p style="text-align: justify;">Appreciating Chinese painting and calligraphy can be a frustratingly clueless task. Luckily, Tang Hou, a Yuan connoisseur, offered to help with this advice: "In the case of landscapes or paintings of bamboo, plum blossoms, orchids, old trees, rocks, birds and flowers, they are ink-plays in which the initiated and cultured lodge their thoughts and feelings. Pray not to gauge them for formal likeness." In other words, if you are looking only for formal likeness, you are looking in the wrong direction. What is more, when you look at the brush and ink, you look at the artist. Withdrawal means attaining an ideal realm of existence while avowal, proclaiming one's conviction unequivocally. The proclamation, however, requires neither sound nor words when the medium is painting or calligraphy. When appreciating these works, it is the sincerity and integrity embodied that we should look for.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To showcase the manifestation of literati integrity in painting and calligraphy, 60 masterpieces have been selected from the Chih Lo Lou Collection and other Museum holdings for display with reference to their subjects, techniques and the artists' style names and courtesy names.</p>
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Demonstrations by Prof. Tong Kam-tang
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Hong Kong Museum of Art invited Prof. Tong Kam-tang to produce demonstration videos on ink, colour and texture strokes commonly used in Chinese landscape paintings for the “Mastering Masterpieces: The Essentials of Chinese Landscape Paintings” exhibition.</p>
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