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Speech by Mr. Xu Li, Secretary of the CCP Sub-Group and Vice-chairman (Standing) of the Chinese Artists Association on the Opening Ceremony of Exhibition of Han Yuchen’s Oil Paintings and Western Oil Paintings

Release Time:2018-06-10 18:38:10

  Today is a grand opening ceremony with so many seniors, friends and leaders coming here. And I would like to say that this is due to the charm of Mr. Han Yuchen. Actually, I often attend the opening ceremony, but the size and the number of visitors of the opening ceremony of Mr. Han Yuchen today is significant and substantial.

  Lian Ji, the dean has delivered the speech with three aspects. Here, I also would like to present my feelings through three following aspects.

  First of all, I’d like to appreciate the ambition of “Serving the People”. As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the 19th NPC report, with the entering of a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, social principal contradictions in China have been transformed to the contradictions between the general public’s growing demand of a better life and the imbalance and inadequate development. Mr. Han Yuchen has become a famous entrepreneur in these years through effort. He loved the local people, and founded an art gallery covering more than 6,000 square meters, which has hosted more than 600 hundreds of exhibitions and public education activities, so as to make it more convenient for local people to pursue a better life.

  He has a large collection of Western paintings, including works of 19th-century French Barbizon School, and precious works like Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz. The quantity and quality of his collections rank the first class in China. Unlike most of other collectors who shelter their collection of paintings, he built an art museum and presented these works for a long time for free. It brought aesthetic pleasure to ordinary people and make the general public know more about culture diversity. Therefore, I think those capable entrepreneurs like Han Yuchen should, more importantly, care about the people and serve the people.

  Secondly, I’d like to appreciate the attitude of “taking root in common people”. World changed greatly in the recent decades, however, Mr. Han Yuchen stays true to his dream and sticks to his own artistic pursuit unswervingly while he fights in the business field. In his spare time, he persisted in living in depth and taking root in the people. As we all know, there are some places in Sichuan-Tibet Highway that are dangerous and have mudslides etc. However, he drove himself and travelled to the Tibetan areas for dozens of times, arguably risking his life. Despite that he has encountered with many dangerous situations, he never gives up.

  By carefully observing and earnestly experiencing the artistic value of the peoples and the mission of the plateau, Han Yuchen expressed this unique thought and aesthetic connotation in the form of realism. Using simple artistic style and , lifesome and touching artistic language, he created vivid, respectable and touching artistic oil paintings with rich meaning and great passion towards life. Therefore, his works can be selected for our most academic art exhibitions, such as the 18th National Art Exhibition, China Oil Painting Centennial Retrospective and other high-quality exhibitions. Han Yuchen became a famous painter from an amateur painter, being one of the professional artistic oil painters.

  Thirdly, I’d like to appreciate the principle of being culturally confident. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party that it is necessary to strengthen humanistic and cultural exchanges between China and other countries with the rule of taking Chinese culture as main body and being inclusive, improve the skills of international communication, present Chinese culture well, show a true and comprehensive China to others and improve the national cultural soft power

  Mr. Han Yuchen has been a cultural evangelist who promotes and propagandizes Tibet culture overseas and has held oil painting exhibition tour on the topic of Tibet for many years in France, Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, Russia etc. He has made extensive exchanges with mainstream foreign media and news media so that more people can understand Tibet and realize Chinese culture through diverse approaches. His paintings "Shepherdess" and "Road to Worship" won the Grand Prize in France. It also shows the high level of our Chinese painters and Chinese cultural confidence.

  n this exhibition, Mr. Han Yuchen presents his own oil paintings together with his collection of European paintings. I believe everyone will be able to perceive the sincere love towards arts and the responsibility for the society and the citizens of Han Yu-chen, a successful entrepreneur,

  In closing, I hope Mr. Han Yuchen can create more beautiful and updated works of excellence in the coming days, continuing to repay our people and our society.

  Wish the exhibition a complete success!