Appreciate the beautiful stone painting art in Yingjie Hard Stone Art Museum

Yingjie Hard Stone Art Museum is located at No. 26 Dongzhimen Outer Street, in the Oga Art Museum Hotel. Judging from the sign at the entrance, it belongs to the No. 9 Hall of the Oga Art Museum. Hard stone art is a very unique art category. Natural stone paintings are mostly selected from rock sections formed by crustal changes and volcanoes 120 million years ago. The patterns formed by their textures and colors are like Chinese paintings and oil paintings, but they are different from both. They are like paintings but not paintings, a unity of heaven and man, and a masterpiece of craftsmanship. Each piece of work is unique and non-reproducible, not only a good product of nature's original creation, but also a source of inspiration for artists, and a truly world treasure. Professor Li Yingjie, the curator of Yingjie Hard Stone Art Museum, has conducted thematic research on geological aesthetics and explored the original ecological hard stone art. In more than 30 years of artistic practice, he has discovered and created a batch of original ecological hard stone art works with a unique artistic perspective, which has attracted wide attention from many experts, scholars, and art institutions at home and abroad. His works have participated in international art exhibitions many times and published a variety of collections. The 800 pieces of works in the museum make people feel the artistic charm of rocks in nature, reflecting the Chinese aesthetic view of 'unity of heaven and man', 'masterpiece of craftsmanship', and 'although made by heaven, it seems to be made by man'. Enter the museum, take the elevator to the second basement, and you can see the wall full of stone paintings and various sculptures arranged in the hall. The themes of the stone paintings include landscapes, scenery, characters, still life, etc. The naturally formed textures and colors are really like the paintings created by human painters, and the styles are also diverse. They look like oil paintings, ink paintings, and meticulous paintings, which make people have to admire the craftsmanship of nature. The museum also designed several spaces with different characteristics. The most spectacular one is designed as a corner of the church, with huge stone paintings, exquisite sculptures, stained glass windows, chandeliers, marble walls and floors, full of design sense; some spaces are like grottoes, some spaces are like ancient castles, everywhere is an excellent photo location. In one exhibition hall, there are also some exhibits from Africa, showing the ancient folk items of Africa. There are not many visitors in the museum, but every visitor is deeply attracted. Among them, there is a five or six-year-old girl who lingers in front of the dazzling stone paintings, admiring them carefully, and keeps talking to herself, all of which are heartfelt praises like 'so beautiful' and 'I like this one the most'.