Comparative Study Of The Style Of Li Keran And Lu Yanshao On Landscape Painting

This paper makes comparative studies on the artistic styles of Lu Yanshao’s and LiKeran’s landscape paintings. As the well-known landscape painting masters in the20thcentury, Lu Yanshao and Li Keran, makes a significant difference in the painting circlesin China. Not only the artistic achievements, but also the social recognition shall be animportant factor when we consider whether an artist can represent an era. Focusing onthe artistic styles of Lu Yanshao’s and Li Keran’s landscape paintings, this paper makesa series of comparative studies on factors helping form such kind of artistic style,artistic composition and characteristics of landscape painting, ink form, innovation etc.Their artistic styles and innovative ideas have a tremendous influence on contemporaryChinese paintings and their artistic achievements are respected by the later generations.Based on the research of their landscape painting development, it can be seen thatalthough they were born in the same era, they still share some differences in the paintingstyles owing to the influence coming from both subjective and objective aspects, suchas family environment, the process of being apprentice, social relations, personalcharacters and so on. Moreover, they stand for two different landscape painting styles.Whereas, by making a general survey of their paths to success, we can draw aconclusion that they both choose to follow the tradition dialectically, seek the nature indepth, and advance with the times, which are the main elements that makes themsuccessful artists.Through combining their artistic careers, the paper, via studies on commonality,diversity of artistic style between Lu Yanshao’s and Li Keran’s landscape paintings, triesto provide guidance for the progressive development of contemporary Chineselandscape paintings and argues that all the artists in nowadays complex and fickleenvironment must hold a proper attitude toward the development of landscape paintingsin China by studying and summarizing from the successful career of predecessors whilecombining their own characteristics and development law of Chinese painting history.