[2025 Nanchang Attraction] Travel Guide for Jiangxi Provincial Art Museum (Updated Jan)

On the first day of the new year, take a stroll around the old town, starting at Bayi Square and then visiting the Provincial Art Museum, which is currently hosting the China-Germany Contemporary Art Exhibition. The "Integration and Symbiosis: China-Germany Contemporary Art Exhibition" brings together contemporary artists from China and Germany, showcasing unique cultural elements and shared artistic pursuits through their respective artistic forms and expressions, with the aim of promoting in-depth exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in the field of art.

🏛️Explore Nanchang's new landmark - Jiangxi Art Museum✨ 🌆Location🔍: No. 89 Hongcheng Road, Xihu District, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China 🕰️Opening hours⏳: Tuesday to Sunday 9:00 - 17:00 (closed on Mondays) 💫Ticket price🎫: Free admission (reservation or on-site ticket required) 📸Equipment recommendation🤔: Bring your camera and a good mood, and let's explore the ocean of art together~ 🌱Preface🍃: This weekend trip was inspired by a strong recommendation from an art lover😌, "You must visit the Provincial Art Museum in downtown Nanchang!" His tone was firm and full of anticipation. As an explorer🐾 with a curiosity for culture and art, I accepted the challenge without hesitation and embarked on a journey to find a touch of the soul🚀. It turned out to be a rewarding experience👍🏻💕! 🏺Architectural style🏗️: From a distance, this perfect combination of modern and traditional architecture looks like a delicate gem embedded in the heart of the city👀. "I didn't know there was a work of art hidden here." My friends were full of admiration🥰. The layout of the interior space is also amazing, with a spacious and bright lobby and carefully selected art displays, every step is a journey into a world of beauty💖. 🎨Museum collection🏹: As soon as I entered the exhibition hall, I was deeply attracted by the huge oil painting😍. The colorful light and shadow intertwined to form a moving picture; the ceramic exhibition area next to it showed delicate brushwork and superb skills; and those lifelike sculptures... Each exhibit has its own unique story and background story waiting for you to discover! 🙌Conclusion👍: If I have the chance to come again, I will definitely choose to spend a leisurely time here! Because here we can feel the crystallization of human wisdom and the pursuit of a better life, not just on the surface decoration, but deeply integrated into every detail! Next time you should come and experience this unique charm too~

Walking into the Jiangxi Art Museum is like traveling through a tunnel of time and space, with every step echoing with history and every glance meeting a feast of beauty. This is a place for dialogue between art and the soul, a meeting point of culture and creativity! 🏠Inside the Museum: The art museum has three floors, each with two exhibition halls, for a total of six exhibition halls. Each theme is very artistic, so there are six exhibition halls to visit, which are really artistic, very abstract, and colorful! 1️⃣1F: Exhibition Halls 1 and 2. The first floor is mainly for art works. The exhibition features 147 pieces of arts and crafts and 237 pieces of ceramic art, with a wide range of themes and rich forms, with strong artistic expression, new exploration, and new breakthroughs. 2️⃣2F: Exhibition Halls 3 and 4. Mainly arts and crafts and ceramic art, with some ceramic works, fully demonstrating the overall style and artistic level of the current stage of arts and crafts and ceramic art. 3️⃣3F: Exhibition Halls 5 and 6. The third floor of Jiangxi Art Museum is a permanent exhibition, telling the history of Bayi Square and Jiangxi Art Museum building. Jiangxi Art Museum is a national art exhibition hall focusing on the display, collection, and research of modern and contemporary artists' works at home and abroad. It is located on the north side of Jiangxi Art Center, an independent building attached to the main body of the center, connected to the concert hall through a cultural sculpture corridor. The 5th Hall on the third floor is a permanent exhibition, especially around the history of Bayi Square and Jiangxi Art Museum building, providing a good place to learn about history and art. 🎫Tickets: Free ⏰Opening Hours: 9:00–17:00 (Closed on Mondays) 📍Address: Jiangxi Art Museum 🚇 Transportation Guide: Subway: Line 1 or 2 to Bayi Square Station, Exit 14 Self-driving: Parking navigation to Jiangxi Art Museum Parking Lot

Yan Shizhong, a Chinese-American painter, is a very talented oil painter. He was among the first group of oil painting postgraduates after the end of the Cultural Revolution, admitted to the master's program of the Oil Painting Department at the China Academy of Art, studying alongside Hu Zhenyu, Xu Mangyao, Shang Ding, Gao Shaohua, and others, under the tutelage of oil painting predecessors like Quan Shanshi. After graduation, Yan Shizhong returned to his hometown in Shandong and worked as a professional painter at the Shandong Provincial Art Museum, soon being recognized as a national first-class artist. Later, he traveled far and settled in the United States. After arriving in the United States, Yan Shizhong broadened his horizons, especially deeply moved by the color perception of Impressionist painting. Thus, he further researched and explored the color language of oil painting in his artistic practice, creating a series of colorful and splendid oil paintings—'Galloping Horses Series,' 'Ballet Series,' 'Landscape Series,' etc., which were widely welcomed and favored by American audiences. 'The Uyghurs under the Sun' is a series of oil paintings that Yan Shizhong created many years after moving to the United States. Feeling a lack of passion and inspiration from life in his creations abroad, he recalled the touching experiences during his postgraduate studies at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) when he lived deeply among the people of Xinjiang. At that time, the teachers and students lived, ate, and worked with the Uyghur locals, and the experience of sketching and painting from life in the area left a deep impression on him. Therefore, in 2008, Yan Shizhong returned to the beautiful Xinjiang of his motherland, went to the Errenji settlement in Kashgar, Southern Xinjiang, to paint from life, and once again experienced the Uyghurs of this land, finding them unchanged—simple, enthusiastic, living peaceful lives. Deeply moved, Yan Shizhong used brilliant colors and bold, smooth strokes to depict the warm sunshine, the clear skies, and the simple people, creating a large number of works. These pieces neither deliberately embellish nor beautify, nor are they artificially profound, but rather, with the sincere eyes of a painter, they discover the beauty of simplicity in the commonplace, everyday life and portray it on the canvas.

Years ago, I went to Nanchang with a good friend. The long-planned trip finally came to fruition. Whether it's day or night, the entrance of the art gallery is very photogenic and the layout inside is great!