{"id":206,"date":"2023-10-06T02:43:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/shanghai-test\/?p=206"},"modified":"2023-12-10T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:51:09","slug":"shanghai-library-hosts-comic-and-illustration-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/shanghai-library-hosts-comic-and-illustration-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Library hosts comic and illustration exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<p>The 4th Ding Cong National Comic and Illustration Exhibition is showing at the Shanghai Library East Branch through October 15.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition features almost 400 works selected from 3,000 candidates around the country. Among those, 60 percent were created by young and middle-aged artists.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by the Shanghai Artists\u2019 Association, the Shanghai Animation and Cartoon Association, and the Xin Min Evening Newspaper, the exhibition is named after Ding Cong (1916-2009), one of China\u2019s top illustration artists.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 10 works on display at the exhibition received support from the Ding Cong Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday comic is no longer just a simple form of brushwork, but a way of thinking through any form of art,\u201d said Sun Shaobo, director of the academic committee of the Shanghai Animation and Cartoon Association. \u201cThe term of \u2018Big Comic,\u2019 actually undertakes the cross-border integration and innovation of traditional comics and contemporary animation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of the show is Zuo Chen\u2019s \u201cPeony Pavilion.\u201d Based on a printmaking style with the animation form, the work outlines a dream world that combines both the fantasies and realities of the characters Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei.<\/p>\n<p>Another item in the spotlight is Zhu Junyue\u2019s work titled \u201cCrossing.\u201d The tableau immediately catches the viewer\u2019s eyes, as it features a pair of robotic hands flipping through the bamboo slips of the ancient book of \u201cDao De Jing,\u201d or \u201cThe Classic of the Way and the Virtue\u201d by Chinese ancient philosopher Lao Zi, on bamboo slips.<\/p>\n<p>The artist apparently renders a message \u2013 If artificial intelligence is learning ancient wisdom, then what about mankind?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pix-container\">\n<div class=\"pix-wrapper pix-wrapper-large\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone lazy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/obj.shine.cn\/files\/2023\/10\/02\/7dea9483-97f8-45c8-a697-ad7590f8371b_0.jpg\" alt=\"Shanghai Library hosts comic and illustration exhibition\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Zhu Junyue\u2019s work \u201cCrossing\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Exhibit info:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Date: Through October 15 (closed on Mondays), 9m-8:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Shanghai Library East Branch<\/p>\n<p>Address: 7\/F, 300 Hehuan Rd<\/p>\n<p>\u5408\u6b22\u8def300\u53f7<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-info-bottom\">Source: SHINE\u00a0\u00a0 Editor: Su Yanxian \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shine.cn\/tags\/ShanghaiLibrary\/\">Shanghai Library<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th Ding Cong National Comic and Illustration Exhib [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22],"tags":[26,39],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shanghai-info","category-shanghai-news","tag-culture","tag-shanghai-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shanghaitraveller.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}