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This is a physically challenging exhibition. It occupies 17 exhibition halls of the National Art Museum of China.
今天推荐的大展，如标题所述，真的需要体力，因为要完整看下来，得走遍中国美术馆从一楼到五楼的17个展厅。但我还是强烈推荐大家不要错过。
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On show are more than 550 artworks on loan from a dozen of museums, institutions and families of featured artists across the country.
这次展出的作品超过了550件，借展自国内几十家博物馆、美术馆、收藏机构和艺术家的家属自藏。
[Photo by Jiang Dong / China Daily]
And the theme is to mark one single province's contribution to the modernization of Chinese art in the 20th century.
这么多作品都为了回顾一个单一省份对于20世纪中国艺术现代化进程做出的贡献。
Covering nearly one fourth of China's mainland coastline, Guangdong has been in the forefront of external exchanges and social transformations over the past century.
广东省占据了全国将近四分之一的大陆海岸线。在过去一个多世纪以来，广东一直站在与外界交流和社会变革的潮头浪尖。
[Photo by Jiang Dong / China Daily]
You may not know that it is also the cradle of many top modern artists, whose outputs have become classics and are still influencing our tastes.
但你们知道吗，广东也是中国美术现代化的摇篮，从这里走出了许多当代艺术大家，他们的作品已经成为经典，并且仍然在塑造着我们的审美。
Many shown artists at Mission of Reform are the country's first- and second-generation reformers, who studied in Europe or Japan and who, after they returned home, renewed the landscape of Chinese art by infusing the techniques and styles of other cultures.
这次“其命惟新”的广东美术百年大展追忆了许多第一代和第二代的当代美术革新者。他们大多留学欧洲或者日本；回国之后，他们用其他文化的风格和绘画技巧来改造面临困境的中国美术传统。
[Photo by Jiang Dong / China Daily]
Among them there were representatives of Lingnan School of Painting. Guangdong produced China's earliest home-grown oil painters who learned from foreigners, as Guangdong for a certain period of time was their major gateway to the country's hinderland.
这些革新者中就有岭南画派的画家们。广东诞生了中国最早的一批本土油画家，他们的老师就是聚集在广东的外国人，因为在当时，外国人需要从广东入境，然后再深入内地。
Pioneers of the Lingnan school introduced oil techniques to enliven the ink-brush tradition, such as Gao Jianfu (1879-1951), one of the school's founders.
在这一背景下，油画技巧也为致力于改造中国画的广州画家们带来了许多启发，比如岭南画派的形成。这次的展出就包括了画派创始人之一高剑父的作品。
Gao studied at the 130-year-old Tokyo Fine Arts School, now Tokyo University of the Arts. He participated in the Xinhai Revolution. With the support of Sun Yat-sen, he was devoted to the dissemination of revolutionary ideas and art education among the public.
高剑父求学于具有130年历史的东京美术学校，现在东京艺术大学的前身之一。他也是辛亥革命元老之一，在孙中山先生的支持下，从事革命思想的宣传和美育教育的普及。
Tokyo Fine Arts School cultivated several Chinese modern artists, such as Li Shutong, and Li Xiongcai (1910-2001), another Lingnan school painter.
东京美术学校培育了不少当代中国艺术的先驱，比如我们熟悉的李叔同（弘一法师），还有就是黎雄才，岭南画派的第二代代表画家。
This painting,
Patrol in Forest
, is one brilliant work in Li's oeuvre. It looks small here. Do see it at the museum, if you're in Beijing.
这幅《护林》是黎先生作品中非常精彩的一件。手机上看起来很小，要想体验最佳的观赏效果还是有可能的话去到现场。
Li is a genius of showing the misty, cloudy beauty of natural scenery.
黎先生能够非常诗意地绘出山林等自然景色的朦胧之美。
This painting is one of my favorites at the exhibition. Yu Ben (1905-1995) executed this work to express the sufferings of those struggling at the bottom, like he once experienced.
这幅《奏出人间的心酸》是这次展览上我最喜欢的作品之一。画家余本表达了社会底层人民所遭受的种种艰辛。
One of the Chinese immigrants in Canada, Yu had been a child labor before he made enough money to study painting at school.
十几岁的时候，余本就如同家乡的许多移民一样，来到加拿大，成为童工，直到他攒够足够的学费，进入到美术学校学习绘画。
There are also outstanding woman artists, the goddesses not only of their time, but also their talent and courage still deserve our admiration.
还要说说这次展览上的几位“女神”级艺术家。在这样一个“女神”泛滥的年代，特别想说说一个世纪前这些杰出的女性，她们的才华和勇气仍然值得今天的人们仰慕。
They are legends because they coped with chaos and wars and also, because when they pursued a career, they had to stand up to the restrictions that were posed to females, which one could hardly imagine these days.
她们就是时代的传奇，不仅仅因为她们经历了多少战乱的考验，还因为她们在追求事业的过程中，需要多么强大的内心来面对当时社会施加在女性身上的种种令人难以想象的“枷锁”。
He Xiangning (1878-1972) is more remembered as a renowned social activist and wife of senior statesman Liao Zhongkai. Well, she is a well-trained and learned painter and poet in her own right.
何香凝女士是著名的社会活动家，是廖仲恺先生的夫人。但她本人也是一位受过良好技巧训练和有学识的画家、诗人。
Guan Zilan (1903-1985) was one of the most talented woman painters in the 1930s and 40s.
关紫兰，三四十年代最富有才华的女画家之一。
[Photo courtesy of Taikang Space]
This photo was featured in a posting weeks ago.
这张老照片在过去的一期推送中出现过。
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The exhibition runs till next Sunday (July 23). Then it will travel to Guangdong Museum of Art from Aug 4 to Sept 5.
这次的大展持续到下周日（7月23日），然后会移师广东美术馆继续展出。
9 am-5 pm, closed on Mondays, through July 23.
1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng district, Beijing.
