风苏万物，绿染大地。春，是万物复苏、播种希望的季节。古往今来，艺术家对时序更替都颇为关注。他们将情感思绪倾注笔端，描摹宜人春景。
在这生机勃发的季节，中国美术馆推出“江山壮丽——中国美术馆藏山水与风景题材作品展”“国风有形——中国美术馆虎年迎春民间美术精品展”“平凡不凡——李平凡创作及捐赠作品展”等“典藏活化”系列展览，集结众多绘写自然之春、心中之春、时代之春的作品，带来春的气象。让我们走进美术馆，走进明媚的春光，感受诗意的春天。
这是寄予美好憧憬的春天。
对于春的期盼与幸福生活的祈愿，往往会体现在丰富多彩的民俗生活中，同样也以造型的方式体现在精彩纷呈的民间美术之中。人们以年画的方式迎接春节的到来，以剪纸的形式烘托节日的喜庆，以彩塑的手法再现愉悦的景象，以风筝的放飞感受春风浩荡，在皮影中品读人生的春秋，在玩具中体验未泯的童心。
“国风有形——中国美术馆虎年迎春民间美术精品展”分为“百虎闹春”“春风化剪”“春和景明”“春色满园”4个篇章，包括馆藏民间美术作品160余件，涵盖年画、剪纸、皮影、彩塑、风筝等品类，展现了中华大地上不同民族、不同地域各具特色的文化与风俗。
“儿童散学归来早，忙趁东风放纸鸢。”春和景明，正是放飞风筝的季节。北京、天津、潍坊和南通四大着名风筝产地及重要流派的风筝作品，或粗犷豪放，或活泼精巧，或明艳绚丽，或清淡素雅，凝聚着中华民族的审美理想、文化内涵和浪漫超脱的艺术气质。在展厅里，郝德立的风筝《龙头蜈蚣》悬于空中，轻盈灵动，尤其显眼。此风筝由一只立体的龙头和30余节象征身躯的“蜈蚣桄”构成，总长达10余米，是中国美术馆所藏风筝中体量最大的一件。“沙燕”是北京地区最具代表性的风筝样式，2008年北京奥运会吉祥物之一“妮妮”，就是根据沙燕风筝所设计的。展出的哈魁明的风筝《五鱼燕》，将红、蓝两色金鱼绘于燕身，赋予美好的寓意。此外，年画《春风得意》《十美图放风筝》等，也展现了踏春放风筝的欢乐场景。
这是充满时代新象的春天。
从白山黑水到雪域高原，从西北边陲到万里海疆，从草原牧场到江南水乡，红色浓烈、绿色盎然、黄色耀眼、白色纯净、黑色膏腴。神州大地，山美水秀，处处春意萌发。
自古以来，一代代丹青高手游历自然、积淀心灵，以生花妙笔描绘大好江山。这些作品不仅将大自然之形神刻画入微，还融入人文理想，以多样的审美范式诠释“笔墨当随时代”的创作理念。
无论是新中国成立以后、改革开放时期，还是进入新时代，艺术家们创作的山河景象，无不随着审美风格的变化与创新而呈现出不同面貌。这些作品脱胎于赤子深情的心象，植根于中国社会进步的伟大实践，展示了时代新象。
“江山壮丽——中国美术馆藏山水与风景题材作品展”精选130余件作品，涵盖中国画、油画、版画、水彩、雕塑等艺术门类，分为“高山仰止”“时代新象”“建设伟业”“诗意所栖”“自然之象”5个篇章，以物传情，以美言志。
杨先让的版画《开春》，以浪漫的手法展现了人们春日劳作的场景；何海霞的中国画《春在田间》绿水红花，点染盎然春意；卢是的中国画《春光好》运用大片红色晕染，描绘了孩子们于桃林间春游的快乐时光；崔开玺2008年创作的油画《北京的春天》以2008年北京奥运会主会场“鸟巢”为背景，配以月季花和游人，是充满期盼的春天；何加林的中国画《春之交响》则把镜头对准2020年的春天，在疫情防控常态化的形势下，人们正有序复工复产……在这些融合艺术家个人心象、时代气象与自然景象的动人作品中，观众不仅可以感受到时代气息，还能看到奋斗者的足迹，人民的创造。
这是寓意温暖大爱的春天。
诚如其名，版画家李平凡的作品多取材于平凡生活，清新纯朴，笔法洗练，线条流畅，色彩明快，于生活中挖掘美、表现美，于寻常中见精巧，于平凡中见不凡。
在李平凡诞辰100周年之际，“平凡不凡——李平凡创作及捐赠作品展”从他向中国美术馆捐赠的1600余件作品中精选100余件展出，分为“刀笔不凡”“馈赠不凡”两部分，不仅有李平凡创作的版画、中国画、美术日记，还有其捐赠的日本浮世绘、日本现代版画、日本藏书票以及其他国际版画精品，体现了艺术家不凡的创作和大爱的情怀。
走进展厅，大量以儿童为题材的作品迎面而来。李平凡笔下不同肤色、不同民族的儿童灵动可爱、稚拙烂漫。其中《我们要和平》获得了1959年德国莱比锡国际版画展银奖，尤其能体现李平凡的艺术特色，也是中国美术作品中的经典。画面上依次刻画了三个孩童，分别是黄、白、黑三种肤色。前面的孩童怀抱和平鸽，后面两人则把小手搭在前面孩童的肩头，表现了亚、非、欧美儿童的亲密无间和渴望和平。作品刻线粗壮有力，色调和谐分明，富有装饰风格。
除了代表性的版画作品，美术日记也是此次展览的亮点之一。很长一段时间，美术日记都是李平凡创作的主要方式。他以线条和色彩替代文字，在纸上记录生活中的点点滴滴，为平凡生活赋予诗情画意。穿梭于这些尺幅不大的精美小品中，观众亦可以感受到生活的暖意和平凡而隽永的美。
The wind blows all things, and the green dyes the earth. Spring is the season when everything recovers and sows hope. Since ancient times, artists have paid much attention to the change of time sequence. They pour their emotional thoughts into the pen and describe the pleasant spring scenery. In this vibrant season, the China Art Museum has launched a series of "collection activation" exhibitions, such as "magnificent rivers and mountains - Exhibition of works on landscape and landscape in China's art collection", "visible national style - Exhibition of folk art works in the year of the tiger in the China Art Museum", "ordinary extraordinary - Exhibition of Li Pingfan's creative and donated works", which gather a large number of works depicting the spring of nature, the spring of the heart and the spring of the times, bringing the atmosphere of spring. Let's walk into the art museum, into the bright spring, and feel the poetic spring. This is the spring with beautiful expectations. The expectation of spring and the wish for a happy life are often reflected in the rich and colorful folk life, as well as in the wonderful folk art in the form of modeling. People greet the arrival of the Spring Festival in the form of New Year pictures, foil the festivity of the festival in the form of paper cutting, reproduce the pleasant scene by means of color sculpture, feel the mighty spring breeze with the flying of kites, taste the spring and autumn of life in shadow puppets, and experience the undivided childlike innocence in toys. "Visible national style - folk art exhibition in the year of the tiger in the Chinese Art Museum" is divided into four chapters: "a hundred tigers make spring", "spring wind turns into scissors", "spring harmony and bright scenery" and "spring is full of garden". It includes more than 160 folk art works in the collection, covering new year pictures, paper cuts, shadow puppets, colored sculptures, kites and other categories, showing the unique cultures and customs of different nationalities and regions in China. "Children come back early from school. They are busy putting paper kites in the east wind." It is the season of flying kites in spring. The kite works of the four famous kite producing areas and important schools in Beijing, Tianjin, Weifang and Nantong are rough and bold, lively and exquisite, bright and gorgeous, or light and elegant, condensing the aesthetic ideal, cultural connotation and romantic and detached artistic temperament of the Chinese nation. In the exhibition hall, Hao deli's kite "dragon head centipede" is hanging in the air, light and flexible, especially conspicuous. The kite is composed of a three-dimensional faucet and more than 30 sections of "centipede test" symbolizing the body, with a total length of more than 10 meters. It is the largest kite in the Chinese Art Museum. "Shayan" is the most representative kite style in Beijing. Nini, one of the mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, is designed according to Shayan kite. The kite "five fish swallow" by HA queming on display draws red and blue goldfish on the body of the swallow, giving a beautiful meaning. In addition, the New Year pictures, such as "a happy spring day" and "flying kites in ten beautiful pictures", also show the happy scene of flying kites in spring. This is a spring full of new images of the times. From the White Mountains and black waters to the snowy plateau, from the northwest border to the thousands of miles of sea, from grasslands and pastures to the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the red is strong, the green is full, the yellow is dazzling, the white is pure and the black is plump. The land of China, with beautiful mountains and rivers, is full of spring. Since ancient times, generations of master painters have traveled through nature, accumulated their hearts, and painted great rivers and mountains with brilliant pen. These works not only depict the form and spirit of nature, but also integrate humanistic ideals, and interpret the creative concept of "pen and ink should follow the times" with a variety of aesthetic paradigms. Whether after the founding of new China, the period of reform and opening up, or entering a new era, the mountains and rivers created by artists all show different faces with the change and innovation of aesthetic style. These works are born out of the affectionate image of a child, rooted in the great practice of China's social progress, and show the new image of the times. "Magnificent rivers and mountains - landscape and landscape works exhibition in China's art collection" selects more than 130 works, covering art categories such as Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, watercolor and sculpture. It is divided into five chapters: "towering mountains", "new image of the times", "great cause of construction", "poetic habitat" and "image of nature". It conveys feelings with things and expresses aspirations with beautiful words. Yang xianrang's print "spring" shows the scene of people's spring work in a romantic way; He Haixia's Chinese painting "spring in the field" is full of green water and red flowers; Lu Shi's Chinese painting "good spring scenery" uses a large red halo to depict the happy time of children's spring outing in the peach forest; Cui Kaixi's oil painting spring in Beijing, created in 2008, takes the "bird's nest", the main venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, as the background, coupled with rose flowers and tourists, is a spring full of expectations; He Jialin's Chinese painting "Symphony of spring" focuses on the spring of 2020. Under the situation of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, people are returning to work and production in an orderly manner... In these moving works integrating the artist's personal image, the weather of the times and the natural scene, the audience can not only feel the flavor of the times, but also see the footprints of the strivers and the creation of the people. This is the spring of warm love. As the name suggests, the works of printmaker Li Pingtan are mostly based on ordinary life, fresh and simple, with refined strokes, smooth lines and bright colors. They explore and express beauty in life, see delicacy in the ordinary and extraordinary in the ordinary. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Li Pingfan's birth, "ordinary and extraordinary - Li Pingfan's creative and donated Works Exhibition" selected more than 100 works from more than 1600 works he donated to the China Art Museum. It is divided into two parts: "extraordinary knife and pen" and "extraordinary gift". There are not only prints, Chinese paintings and art diaries created by Li Pingfan, but also Japanese ukiyo paintings, Japanese modern prints, Japanese library tickets and other international prints donated by Li Pingfan, It reflects the artist's extraordinary creation and great love. Entering the exhibition hall, a large number of works with children as the theme came face to face. The children of different skin colors and nationalities in Li Pingping's works are flexible, lovely, childish and brilliant. Among them, "we want peace" won the silver award at the 1959 Leipzig international Printmaking Exhibition in Germany, which can especially reflect Li Pingping's artistic characteristics and is also a classic in Chinese art works. The picture depicts three children in turn, namely yellow, white and black. The children in front embrace the dove of peace, while the two behind put their small hands on the shoulders of the children in front, showing the closeness and desire for peace of Asian, African, European and American children. The engraved lines are strong and powerful, the colors are harmonious and clear, and the works are full of decorative style. In addition to the representative printmaking works, the art diary is also one of the highlights of the exhibition. For a long time, art diary was the main way of Li Pingfan's creation. He replaced words with lines and colors, recorded every bit of life on paper, and endowed ordinary life with poetry and painting. Shuttling through these small exquisite sketches, the audience can also feel the warmth of life and the ordinary and meaningful beauty.