<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>