Songs for Dream Trackers: Highlights of Oil Painting Collection

No matter what kind of suffering, no matter how heavy the burden of history, generations of Chinese people have never given up pursuing the dream of happiness and creating a better life in constant running.

When looking back to the artists we have come into contact with over the years, whether young or middle-aged, or even older, they have a common feature, that is full of dreams, striving for their own professional field with spraying vitality, and presenting their feelings in the magnificent paintings. Their focuses range from still life on close desk to labor scenes, which indirectly or directly depict the ups and downs of the dream-building process of New China, full of realistic humanistic care and sincere feelings.

As for the subject matters of painting, respected oil painter, Mr. Bao Jia, once said, "I don't like to paint broken bricks or dark and decadent corners. Someone will depict them. They also have their own value in historical research. I prefer to show vivid things, such as painting the ancient banyan tree here. What hasn't it suffered yet? But it is still here, without fear of the wind and rain, firmly rooted in the soil, looking at the growth and life of generations, I like this kind of energy.” This is also the choice of our exhibition works - positive, upward, high-spirited, or the little warmth and beauty of life. Because the wings of dreams also need "good wind". In the age of passion, we need such wind direction. We would like to take this exhibition to pay tribute to every dreamer.

This work is about two soldiers learning together. Old soldier joined the army in the countryside, fought all the way, and then studied again. He is grasping the pen very clumsily, like taking a piece of wood, showing his difficulty in writing. Because of the younger age, the young soldier finds learning easier with an accurate gesture of holding the pen. The personalities of the two men are fully embodied through the pen. In order to study together for the common goal, these two gestures contrasted with the wrinkles of the old soldier's face and the naivety of the new soldier's face, which fully embodied the artist's ability to capture the details of life.