Beijing 798 Art District Travel Notes Composition

Beijing’s 798 Art District, a former abandoned factory, was accidentally infected with art bacteria by a group of literary and artistic youths, and became a new art mecca under the constant promotion and packaging of various media. The following is a travel composition about Beijing 798 Art District that I compiled for everyone. It is for your reference. Welcome to read! Beijing 798 Art District Travel Composition Part 1

First acquaintance with 798 came from a classmate’s QQ space. See Check out the photos of 798 taken by your friends using Meitu Xiuxiu. They are beautiful, retro, artistic or unique. Therefore, I also have a yearning for 798. It was also from that time that I learned that the predecessor of that industrial park full of strong artistic flavor was a factory that flourished but declined. So, the mottled factory walls are covered with ivy, the walls are covered with art paintings, there are rows of racks with art, and graffiti and spray-painting can be seen everywhere. . . . . Will Beijing's 798 Art District look like this? I think.

The recent class inspection trip to Beijing also came true in line with our expectations. For this trip, around 5 o'clock in the morning, we drove away the sleepy people while preparing to go to Beijing. Finally, at 6 o'clock, we embarked on a journey to Beijing without rushing for the exam. One of our goals was the 798 Art District.

798, this place where art from all over the world collides, where you and I pursue our creative dreams. Finally, after eating and nagging and sleeping hard on the class bus, we met.

There is no tall and stylish SLR to support the show, nor is there a selfie stick to support the show. I just hold my BBK mobile phone with only 8 million pixels and walk around. I am not a person who loves taking pictures, and Art is for appreciation, and creativity is for analysis and reproduction. I have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering beauty, so what is the use of taking pictures? I think this way, and this is the only way I can think. When I first entered the 798 Art District, I fell in love with the graffiti curtain wall at the entrance. The bold colors, colorful but not noisy, grand yet graceful, provide people with a creative place to take photos. Taking a photo in front of this iconic object at the door can be regarded as a commemoration of the 798 trip.

When we walked in, we saw mottled red brick walls, well-organized industrial plants, criss-crossing pipelines, and slogans from various eras still preserved on the walls. Uniformed workers on the road contrast with fashionable and avant-garde visitors. History and reality, industry and art perfectly fit together here. This is 798, a place I have imagined countless times. Walking along this straight street, there are mostly art exhibition halls on both sides of the street. In almost every exhibition hall, there are a few sculptures erected sparsely. Some are animals with no discernible species, or some characters with exaggerated expressions, and some can only be regarded as a lump in the abstract sense. . . From the first moment I saw them, my brain started to work quickly. What does this look like? What do you want to express? Multiple realistic and unrealistic answers formed in my mind. , I also believe that different people will have different answers when looking at each thing. This may be the value of abstract and image art. So I understood that the value of some works of art is not the artistic elements contained in them, but the result of the collision of people's minds when the people who view the works resonate.

Walking and stopping on the wide streets, the whole person is bathed in the strong cultural atmosphere. From time to time, he is attracted by a certain creative work, and sometimes sighs that he can be like this about something. I even feel like I have become a cultural person by breathing the air here! Yes, this is indeed a place where we can relax. We can imagine wildly and comment without any scruples. There is no such thing as good or bad. Even badness has nothing to do with absolute beauty and ugliness. As long as someone likes it, it has value.

The reality of 798 is indeed different from what I imagined. Although it is a cultural park, in terms of the share of traditional Chinese culture, the proportion of postmodern elements is even greater.

As a big city, Beijing is a place where talents gather intensively, where various cultures gather and a hundred flowers bloom, and all kinds of modern cultural products are eccentric. But would it be more complementary if more traditional workshops or iconic exhibition halls of traditional crafts were added?

Before going to 798, I heard someone comment like this: "Although 798 is a palace of art, it unabashedly reveals business opportunities and is full of the smell of copper." I am speechless for such comments. As someone who travels on a budget, I can only look at the dazzling works of art with my wallet in awe. But for those artists, every piece of work contains their thoughts and represents their own pride. They like to look at everything around them from an artistic perspective.

Artistic works, as a quasi-spiritual product, are priceless. In reality, these artworks are not only a way for artists to express their feelings, but also a means for them to survive in reality. Therefore, the high price also makes these treasures a kind of luxury goods. So those of us who don’t have the capital to go to luxury can only appreciate it.

I had never thought that the 798 Art Park would be so big. Time was tight, so I felt a little regretful. Although I only walked two streets, it gave me a bold idea. I believe that one day in a few years, I will also enter Beijing and settle in 798, creating a world of my own for my future creative career.

Beijing, 798, wait for me. Beijing 798 Art District Travel Notes Part 2

798, a former abandoned factory, was accidentally infected with art bacteria by a group of literary and artistic youths, and became a new art holy place under the constant rendering and packaging of various media . Although I have passed by 798 several times, I have never been able to see its true appearance. This time I had the opportunity to visit, and I was really excited. As an older senior pseudo-literary young man, in addition to excitement, there is also a trace of nervousness. In order to relieve the tension, I also asked netizens across the country for help on how to show artistic literacy when visiting 798. When the bus stopped on the side of the noisy road, I was full of doubts, but after walking around the corner, the graffiti wall that suddenly appeared told us that the art palace was just ahead. As we go deeper into 798, works of various themes appear on the roadside from time to time. Not far away, there was a young man wearing a red hat and red clothes performing performance art on the cold street. I couldn't help but feel awe in my heart. In this holy land of art, there are indeed many people who devote themselves to art. When I was about to understand what kind of genre this was, the young man said, Brother, do you want to eat fried noodles? Turn right in front and our store is there? I guess I overreacted and got carried away by the artistic bacteria, so I decided to eat A bowl of fried noodles is cool and calm.

While dining at the noodle shop introduced by the young man, I observed the shop carefully. There were several solid wood tables in the simple shop, and the chairs were covered with bright yellow cushions. The sunlight filtered through the glass room. The top light shines into the room, and some picture frames are scattered on the wall: Saint Seiya, Dinosaur Express, Slam Dunk, Contra? Although this is incompatible with this restaurant called "Old Beijing Noodles", But these nostalgic photos still bring back memories and make me excited. I'm glad that those works that brought me joy in my childhood, those once classics, have not been forgotten.

Such an unexpected appearance brought back memories of a generation. I think the owner of this store should be about the same age as me. After eating the noodles, the memories also come to an abrupt end. The past memories smell like old wine after years of fermentation, but we cannot stay drunk, after all, we have to keep moving forward in life.

Walking out of the noodle shop, when the food in my stomach can resist the cold outside, I can also feel the rich artistic atmosphere of 798.

Here, there is no need to worry about the abrupt mix and the incoming urban management. Various objects of different artistic styles appear at any time: perhaps when you are still immersed in the classical beauty of the ink landscape, a surrealist poster will bring you back to reality. ;Perhaps when you are sighing at the vivid expression of a realistic sculpture, another unknown object with a strange shape challenges your vision with its claws and teeth in the sun; perhaps when you are just lamenting that a Monet-style impressionist oil painting is unforgettable, another The performance art with three blank frames on one side standing abruptly in the center of the exhibition hall will drive you crazy. In this place full of artistic germs, everything makes sense. So much so that when I saw the small advertisement for “Professional Dredging and Drilling” on the exterior wall, I couldn’t help but stop and think about it, wondering whether this was a direct and profound artistic expression.

On the streets of 798, some huge industrial equipment and parts will appear from time to time. They have been abandoned by history for a long time, but after being enhanced by the strong artistic atmosphere here, they are full of life in the sunshine. . From a stupid production tool, it has become a historical annotation for people to appreciate, remember and remember. On the street, from time to time I heard some old people on the side of the road say, "Where are these things?" Seeing the respectful expressions on the audience's faces, the old man's sense of superiority as a historical witness emerged spontaneously.

Another wonderful thing about 798 is the feeling of exploration. If you don't open that door, you will never imagine what kind of world will be shown to you after you go out. Perhaps there is an abandoned empty house behind a modernly decorated door; or perhaps there is an exquisite small shop behind the rusty iron door. I once accidentally pushed open a simple wooden door, which connected to an ancient alley. If it weren't for the exquisite decorations that appeared on the walls on both sides from time to time, I would have turned around and gone back. At the end of the ancient alley is a small shop with floor-to-ceiling windows. At the door is a girl with a ponytail and a lazy face, reclining on a soft chair, holding a tabby cat, and quietly reading a book in the sun. When I walked in, she didn't even roll her eyes. The shelves in the room are filled with various tea pets and tea cups. In the middle of the room are several pots of flowers and some plain tea sets.

For a moment, looking at these pictures, I thought I had entered the mysterious shop of the witch Ikko in "XXXholic", where an unknown product was waiting for me. I slowly swayed around, then nodded to the girl who looked up at me and walked out. Perhaps to her, I was just another curious tourist who bought nothing. But for me, Setsuna’s Fantasy Journey is the best item I’ve ever gotten in her store. When I closed the door behind me, I even imagined that maybe this was really a witch's shop, and everyone only had the chance to open it once in their lifetime. I didn't turn around and push the door open to verify. I was more willing to believe that this was a witch's shop.

When I visited 798, I saw some deserted literary and art shops. I wondered how they survived? The famous painter Kan Zhijing once said that if you want art, you must also live. This road is long. Much harder than imagined. Just like a hermit in the city, exploring the path of art requires not only inspiration, but also hard work and perseverance. For the people of 798, their existence is a kind of art in itself. It is precisely because of their efforts and dedication that 798 has been created as an artistic environment. Here, all ideas can be expressed without restraint, and all artistic behaviors can be attempted without discrimination. It is precisely because of such an artistic environment that we have the opportunity to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the world, calm down, and explore art that arouses excitement.

798, it’s great to meet you! Beijing 798 Art District Travel Notes Part 3

Beijing is no longer “livable”, but the artistic atmosphere in 798 still makes people feel To the spiritual comfort, the thoughts are unrestrained, the expression techniques are sharp, no one cares about the right and wrong in life, allowing you to roam freely in the sky of the soul.

The old red-brick house reminds us of the roar of the factory in the 1980s. Parents wearing blue work clothes shuttled among them. We played after school while waiting for our parents to get off work! I feel that the work of our parents is fulfilling. The friendship between co-workers is deep, the uncles and aunts are amiable, and our childhood is spiritually happy!

Facing the unrestrained works of art, I can’t help but recall the feeling I had when I picked up a pen to draw for the first time, and the paper was rough , with a natural mechanism! The pen is the most common Zhonghua brand 2B pencil. At that time, it was rare to see "automatic pencils" on the market! The contact between the paper and the pen slowly left traces of graffiti, and with the confusion The wandering thoughts draw the appearance of things in our eyes, and are regarded by adults as "simple" works of art, comparable to the artistic achievements of Van Gogh and Monet. However, at present, computer art design has gradually caused the designer's artistic imagination to lack, and the expression techniques are becoming increasingly the same. Fast-food style design relies more on picture materials, and plagiarism is serious. Where is the originality of the design? How sad!

798 is not a Shimo Art District, it is a living area for artists! To ordinary people, this place is a bit strange, with deformed characters, cathartic colors, and a group of lunatics painting and painting, who knows what is happening outside What? There must be many people who think this way. I can use a simple metaphor to explain this problem. It's like a person looking at a monkey through a guardrail in a zoo. People said: "These monkeys will eat and sleep silly, which makes people happy." Maybe the monkeys were saying to their companions: "Look, these people don't dare to work fast enough. They are all out of food. They still have time to watch us laugh." Woolen cloth".