On Keran Lee's China Mountains-and-waters Painting Arts

Keran Lee's China mountains-and-waters painting arts is known as the mile stone of Chinese mountains-and-waters painting in the 20th century. Moreover, the style of his has been named by "Li jia shan shui ". He holds a significant position in the mountains-and-waters painting history of contemporary in china. All through his life he put his motto into practice, that is, to fight in with the most effort and to fight out with the greatest courage, devoting himself into the transform of Chinese mountains-and-waters painting. His paintings have been fixed eyes upon with brand new visual design and the features of the today's spirit. Analyzing his paintings, we'll find that he not only carries forward the tradition, but also absorb some factors of the western painting arts in the way of improving. He is undoubtedly successful in not only developing art itself but in absorbing foreign paintings. It's not difficult to find his skills of understanding of art, which is the same as Hanshou Pan. Though they take the different way in inheriting traditional art, their practice of art proves that the tradition, such as the problem of written polemics, has the possibility of developing in different periods, which can give as the confidence to our nations traditional art today. He is in such a society that people deny "the four king", even all the traditions just for they cant take on the new life. Some people hold extreme views that to draw new tings new Chinese painting. However, it has more or less meaning in exploring skills and techniques of art. Keran Lee is all-sidedly in learning traditional art from Fan kuan, Li tang, Gongxian ,Shi tao to Baishi Qi and Binghong Huang .He pays attention to earring forward the old art as well as the expanding the space of tablean gradation. In the influence of western art, Kranli Lee takes in the factor of light on the base of inheriting traditions properly and makes it the poine of all paintings, especially the expression of the enlightened backlighting. It's Keran Lee's creation to transform the Chinese paintings in the maximum limit without losing its romantic charm but expressing the colour of black and white in the extreme height. Forming of this style results from many causes, but we can't neglect his attaching importance to sketching from life, which an be said the base of his cuccess. The establishing of his position to the mountains-and waters art circle is closely related to sketching and he leaves us many art treasures. It...