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&nb On December 26, the Mayflower was loaded with 102 European immigrants and landed in Massachusetts, where the North American Caucasian culture flourished.

As the core of Massachusetts, Boston is famous for its publishing industry in the United States at first, and later enjoys the reputation of "Athens of the United States" due to the overall prosperity of cultural undertakings!

Among the cultural achievements that Bostonians are most proud of are the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Boston Museum of Art, also known as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, located at 465 Huntington Street in Boston, is one of the most famous art museums in New England and even in the United States.

In the late 19th century, the Boston Library of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology initiated the establishment of the Boston Museum of Art in order to exhibit the art in their collections.

&nb The Boston Museum of Fine Arts was officially established, but it did not open until July 4, 1876, the National Day of the United States.

For more than a century, the main exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston have included art relics from Asia, Africa, Europe, America, and Oceania, including paintings, sculptures, crafts, photography, printing, and multimedia materials. Dacheng, recognized as one of the best art museums in America.

The collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston are divided into nine parts: Asian art, Egyptian and Near Eastern art, Greco-Roman art, European decorative art, painting and drawing, American decorative art, printing and photography, dyed and woven clothing and 20th century art. Among them, the collection of Asian ancient art is second to none in the world, and it has become the best overseas collection place besides Chinese and Japanese collections.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is also one of the seven major collection institutions in the United States, with more than 15ooo collections of Chinese and Japanese paintings alone. The oriental artworks represented by China and Japan are first-class in both quantity and quality.

Among them, the most treasured Chinese collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston are the "Picture of Emperors of the Past Dynasties" by Yan Liben, a painter of the Tang Dynasty, the "Picture of Taming and Training" by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the "Pine Wind in the Song Dynasty" by Zhang Hong of the Ming Dynasty, and others. Nearly 200 pieces of genuine paintings of Song and Yuan Dynasties.

If any of these paintings can be taken back to China. Those are all first-class national treasures among the national treasures, but now they are displayed in the museums of these white-skinned ghosts.

Jin Muchen and Jesse have been in Boston for several days. They live in a hotel not far from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In the past few days, they have visited the museum almost every day.

Easy access to the museum from the hotel. You can take the green line subway directly, and the museum is a stop.

When you get off the subway, you can see the main two-story building. When you enter the main entrance of the museum, several tall stone pillars stand up to the sky. There is a faintly rustic artistic atmosphere.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a large entrance hall. There are ticket offices and ticket offices in the hall, but the most eye-catching thing in the hall is the several sculptures placed around.

The roof of the foyer is very high and round, and what is more distinctive is that the roof is actually a portrait of some famous American home and artist. These portraits can only be viewed with the head up, if viewed for a long time. Neck pain is inevitable.

In the middle of the foyer, a stone stair leads to the second floor, and the exhibits on the second floor are distributed by geographical location. There are also distribution by exhibit category.

In terms of geographical location, there are Asia Pavilion, African Pavilion, America Pavilion, European Pavilion and so on.

According to the categories of exhibits, there are classical art, musical instruments, contemporary art, European paintings, etc.

Due to the large number of exhibition halls and the rich exhibits, Jin Muchen and Jesse spent three days in the museum, but couldn't get all the exhibits. Read all.

The reason why this museum is also called an art gallery is because it mainly collects many ancient art paintings. For example, the most famous Tang Dynasty painter Zhang Xuan's "Dancing and Training", Song Huizong's "Five-color Parrot" and other ancient Chinese paintings. There are also many great European painters, such as Greco, Tintoretto, Rosso, Rembrandt, Monet, Paul Cezanne, and Van Gogh.

In addition to those priceless ancient Chinese paintings, the Western oil paintings collected here are also well-known. For example, Monet's oil paintings, they have more than 40 paintings. The museum even has the largest Monet in the world outside of France. Inside gallery.

After coming here for a few days, Jin Muchen's only feeling is that he is almost wandering in a treasure house of gold mountains. Every day when he enters the museum, he feels that his eyes are full of jewels, and the shaking makes him dizzy.

The treasure of the museum is full of excitement, but he can only stare at it, not knowing which direction to start from.

In the past few days, he has been specializing in the collection of ancient Chinese paintings in this museum, while Jesse has paid more attention to those Western oil paintings and other art collections.

Jin Muchen is getting more and more insights. In this short period of time, he has inquired a lot about the history of the Boston Museum of Art, and also inquired about the history of many other museums in the United States.

Only then did I discover that the name of this museum is not for nothing. The paintings of ancient Chinese paintings that they manage to collect are definitely the top collections in the world.

There are also several other museums in the United States that have a large collection of ancient Chinese paintings. Among them, the Freer Art Museum in Washington wins the number of paintings with more than 1000 pieces, and the ancient Chinese paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are based on While temporally coherent and systematic, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Nelson-Ardens Gallery of Art in Kansas City clearly stand out in exceptional quality!

After watching it for a few days, Jin Muchen's impression of this art museum is that its collection of Chinese art can be said to be almost all-encompassing in terms of categories, including bronze, gold and silver, ceramic lacquerware, and bamboo horns.

There are even double-line jars with human head and frog pattern from the Majiayao culture of the Neolithic Age, which were unearthed from the Baoji cockfighting platform.

As well as the Tiliang 卣 in the Western Zhou Dynasty in Daijiawan, the Maoshi Room in Northern Wei Dynasty from Luoyang, the double-eared and double-handled conjoined narrow-neck brown glaze vase in the Sui Dynasty, the gilt and silver dragon-patterned crown in the Liao Dynasty, and the blue-and-white plate with lotus, lotus, pond and duck play pattern in Jingdezhen kiln in the Yuan Dynasty. , all of which can be called national treasures.

But every time I see these collections, Jin Muchen is proud of the wisdom and artistic talent of the sages of his motherland, but at the same time, his heart is very pantothenic.

These treasures should have appeared in domestic museums for future generations to admire and admire, but now they appear in the museum of white-skinned ghosts and animals on the other side of the ocean, for these white-skinned ghosts and animals to watch and play casually. My compatriots, if you want to see it, you have to work hard, get a visa, buy a ticket, fly to the other side of the ocean, and spend a lot of money on tickets and accommodation to see it. Sad, emotional?

What makes Jin Muchen the most resentful is the experience of these treasures crossing the ocean to the United States. On the one hand, the United Kingdom used it as a mortgage for the United States during World War II. On the other hand, some of the cultural relics dealers in the United States looted when they came to China. of.

Just like a certain director of this museum, Langdon. Warner, this fellow is such a cultural relic thief. Back then, he stole dozens of exquisite murals and hundreds of Bodhisattva statues from Dunhuang, China.

There are also the historical directors of the Oriental Department of this museum. Many of them are Japanese people who are the most hated by the Chinese. The reason why these white-skinned ghosts let the Japanese be the directors of the Oriental Department is to pass these Japanese devils against things. Familiar, through their means, went to China to loot.

Speaking of the development of the Boston Museum of Art, which has very close trade and cultural origins with the Japanese, the original Asian collection of the Boston Museum of Art was obtained from the 19th century American oriental scholar Edward Moores and Japanese doctor William Sturgis S. Bigelow's collection in Japan is the most outstanding collection of Japanese art in the world.

&nb The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston established the Japanese Fine Arts Department. The first director hired Fenollosa, a scholar who had lived in Japan for 12 years and taught political economy and philosophy at Tokyo Imperial University for 8 years.

During his stay in Japan, this guy studied ancient Japanese temples, shrines, art, and drama, published many works of Asian art in his life, advocated oriental aesthetics, and believed that oriental aesthetics had irreplaceable value and far-reaching influence.

&nb In 3 years, the Japanese Art Department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was renamed the Japanese Chinese Art Department, and then renamed the Oriental Department.

Since that time, they have been looting and collecting items for collection. Their collection spans 4ooo years from the Neolithic Age to the present. Wait.

And many of these collections were acquired by them through the Japanese. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

After that Fenollosa, out of the Japanese's familiarity with Hua, they successively hired several Japanese to serve as the director of their Eastern Department, and through these Japanese, went to China through various shady means to spread the Looting, theft, and things continued until before World War II.

For example, Okakura Kakuzo, the owner of a certain Oriental Department, is also a cultural relic dealer. He instructed Hayasaki Teruyoshi, Tomita Junjiro and others to loot the Central Plains of China many times. A lot of things are done through these Japanese Human hands were re-sold to the United States, which created the splendor of the Chinese Buddhist collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston today.

Even after World War II, after the U.S. military completed the occupation of Japan, they also sent some Japanese traitors to Japan to collect a lot of them. Back then, the Japanese found Japanese treasures in China, which is why the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is today. quantity.

Therefore, after learning about that period of history in detail, Jin Muchen hated those Americans and Japanese who were embarrassed and mingled with each other.

If you dare to be the first year of the new year, don't blame Lao Tzu for being the fifteenth! (To be continued)hT%@Fsj1

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