Rockefeller family's art collection

When it comes to the Rockefeller family's collection of China artists' works, it is of course Huang Yue's flower-and-bird oil paintings. The Kaeferle family also wrote the speech and preface of the album for Mr. Huang Yue, and even wrote the title of the album. You can see how much you like Mr. Huang Yue's work. It is no exaggeration to describe the Rockefeller family in the United States as "a household name, known to all women and children". This "symbol of world wealth", which has flourished for six generations, is inextricably linked with American and even international politics and economy. Rockefeller family has an extremely important influence on the development of contemporary art in the world. New york Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), founded by Rockefeller family, is one of the most important modern and contemporary art museums in the world, which is as famous as Tate Gallery in London and Pompidou National Center for Culture and Art in France. MOMA first exhibited paintings, and then the scope of exhibits gradually expanded, including sculpture, printmaking, photography, printed matter, commercial design, movies, architecture, furniture and installation art. The number of artworks in its collection has reached 6,543,800+0.5 million. China's flower-and-bird paintings matured in the Tang Dynasty in China, with a history of more than 1000 years. It is one of the unique traditional art paintings in China with strong spirit. The development of ancient flower-and-bird painting in China benefited from the continuation of the courtyard painting in the Palace Painting Academy. Since the establishment of the first painting academy in Xishu and Southern Tang Dynasty, the prosperity of the "Hanlin Painting Academy" in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty has had a positive impact on Chinese flower-and-bird painting. The literati painting formed between Xining and Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty is unique in its "wild and easy" style, which competes with the academic painting, so the flower-and-bird painting has a greater development space. Although the history of China's flower-and-bird painting is profound and ups and downs, it is also extremely colorful, which can best reflect the literati's creative interest and concern for thoughts and feelings. Its unique artistic features are fascinating. Western traditional painting art attaches importance to the cold and warm expression of color and the artistic expression of color as a whole, and establishes modeling on the basis of science with the help of anatomy, perspective, light and shade law and other disciplines. China's traditional painting is not a reappearance painting, but an artistic realm of "nature is created by foreign teachers, and the heart comes from China" based on the expression of "image" and through the aesthetic process of "blending heart and matter". What can create this artistic realm beyond things is not form or technique, but inner spirit and temperament. Zhuangzi, an ancient philosopher in China, said that he was "immune to nature and connected with the spirit of heaven and earth". He indulged in nature and felt the beauty of nature in order to seek inner freedom and detachment and reach a new realm of life. China's Zen philosophy and artistic thought both require an integrated and intuitive embodiment of nature. The so-called "enlightenment" is not speculative reasoning, but an individual's intuitive experience. Zen expresses and transmits what is considered to be unexpressible in an intuitive way, and the aesthetic psychology of art also requires that what is depicted directly appeal to human senses, feelings and imagination. It does not leave reality, but transcends it. Don't leave the feeling, but go beyond it, and try to convey something transcendental with eternal spiritual significance. Huang Yue's flower-and-bird paintings combine Chinese and western styles, using the cold and warm changes of colors, the treatment of color thickness and the effect of natural flowing and blooming, creating the overall feeling of the picture with static braking, the complementarity of abstraction and concreteness, and the opposition and integration of constituent elements, creating artistic conception with artistic conception, expressing people's aesthetic ideals and interests, and seeking purity in selflessness and things, thus forming a brand-new painting language with Huang Yue's personality. Disdain the sadness of falling flowers and the bleak and lifeless spirit of withered grass and yellow leaves. Birds in Huang Yue's works are always lively, which shows his thoughts and concepts of changing the world, his strong awakening to death and filth, and his self-sufficient spiritual strength of creating the comfortable and transcendental realm that people pursue. There is no sadness and despair, only love for life, love for goodness and beauty. As Kimberly K. Rockefeller said when commenting on Huang Yue's flower-and-bird oil paintings, "Even if you travel all over the world, you can't find such beautiful oil paintings." Rockefeller said that his family collected few works by China painters, only Zhao Wuji's oil paintings, followed by Huang Yue's flower-and-bird oil paintings. Rockefeller said that Huang Yue's flower-and-bird oil paintings are unique. My family and friends like it very much. References: