Li Keran Landscape Painting Research

Li Keran, Chinese landscape painting of the 20th century masters. During his life painting Landscape painting practice. He practice step by step, and attaches great importance to study the theory of painting, leaving a lot of research work and theoretical data. Learning landscape painting, plunge into nature to carry out painting creation, he is not only a "bitter school", is a thoughtful, summary scholar. "Do a lifetime of basic skills" and "do every day summary" was his age of seventy, for their decades of artistic career evaluation, turns out to be the Si diligence and deep.Li Keran’s Landscape painting system consists of two aspects:artistic practice and art theory. On Li Keran it is simply radially toward the sky. That "art to the heavens, gravitropism days, is the theoretical point of view; The own practice." Visible to draw a good painting, be sure to plunge into nature, it does not work behind closed doors. Li Keran’s Landscape painting is divided into apprenticeship Apprentice, ink painting, and bold innovation ARTISTIC four parts. From the solid basic skills to a wide range of Discourses, coupled with its excellent pen and ink techniques, self-break and then continue to create the final form their own unique landscape system.Li Keran is a widely sought masters, masters eclectic. He not only to ancient paintings teacher learning to Qi Baishi, Huang, Xu Beihong and other masters of learning, but also to learn the whereabouts of Western painting. He is also the poet, actor, pianist, calligrapher learning, absorbing a wide range of other artistic strengths. He studied painting never quick success, he often said:"Artistic skills to strike a firm foundation to strike a broad and deep, in order to become a towering tree or only a few emerge ’bean sprouts’, only root only child, thin enough, not synthesizers." Li Keran through careful study inheritance, then innovation on this basis, to seek development in a changing, and ultimately self-break, to build their own unique style.Li Keran’s landscape painting is highlighted by deep reality real life, the life of the extracted material to be summarized and extracted with artistic language. Li Keran’s Landscape painting is not blindly copy the formula can be applied for. According to his words, any art has its own laws, but the law not the same as a simple formulation. Li Keran think painting is a constant awareness of the objective image and the process of sublimation. As a landscape painter, I want to live as a teacher in painting practice "with the greatest skill to break into, with the greatest courage to break out" for Landscape Painting. Li Keran’s painting practice is not accidental, he worked hard in the basic skills of traditional landscape painting, and face the natural, to find inspiration in life, but also through broad, exaggerated, tailoring and other methods, eventually established his own "Lee landscape."Li Keran Language in the changing of the 20th century, when undergoing every great historical turning point, both in his painting with bold vision and practice of open, positive change in the face of the times, advancing with the times. Li Keran is the wave of the times toward the peak of the art of painting, but also with his own hard study, good painting, diligent thinking style inseparable. Li Keran’s Landscape painting on the development of Chinese landscape painting of the 20th century, having a nexus of sense, he deserves to be the father of China’s modern landscape.