Mr. Li Kexiang, who has loved the art of calligraphy and painting since childhood, won the Shandong Provincial Children's Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition Award for his work "Herding Sheep" in 1964. On the basis of inheriting the tradition, his works pay attention to sketching, under the careful guidance of many famous teachers, and further received the guidance and teaching of Huo Chunyang, Xia Yongxue and other masters, and the works were written with work belts, mainly based on work, combined with work and writing, and freely exerted. Formed its own distinctive characteristics.
Li Kexiang: Character soaring, master of Qingxiang Zhai, Shandong Xiajin people, graduate student. He graduated from the Shandong Provincial Party School of the Communist Party of China, the Law Department of Shandong Electric Power University and the Qi Baishi Art Correspondence College. He studied at the China Academy of Arts, the Advanced Research Class of the Training Center of the China Artists Association, the Art Training Class of Tsinghua University, and the Creation Class of Tang Xiuling Renmin University. Former executive president of Beijing Deyang Jiarui Painting Institute, former vice chairman of Xiajin Artists Association. He is currently a member of the China Artists Association, the Chinese Gongbi Painting Society, the Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association, the China Artists Association, the Director of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association, the Specially Invited Calligrapher and Painter of the China Academy of Arts, the Contracted Painter of Xu Beihong Memorial Hall, the Professor of the Beijing Working People's Cultural Palace Training Center, the Member of the Chinese National Painters Association, the Member of the Shandong Provincial Beauty Association, the Seventh CPPCC Member of Xiajin County, and the National First-class Painter. At present, he is praised by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Ministry of Culture and other units as "Cross-Strait Artist of Virtue and Art" and "2005 Chinese Painting Hundred Masters Painter".
The pen and ink create a bird's singing fragrance
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Mr. Li Kexiang's works are mainly flowers and birds. His calm, free, romantic and realistic painting style makes his works simple and passionate, and he pursues simple and bright, fresh and refreshing artistic effects. Under the nourishment of traditional culture and art, his flower and bird paintings are becoming more and more mature, with an elegant charm, which can not only show endless changes in the square circles of rules, but also contain creativity and passion under the simple appearance, his paintings are not so conspicuous at first glance, but they are intriguing and rich in connotation.
Flower and bird painting is the most interesting, and boring flower and bird painting has no vitality. Mr. Li Kexiang understands that successful painters will capture the bits and pieces of life as creative materials, just as smart chefs process extremely ordinary ingredients into delicious dishes, and painters can only leave an indelible mark in the eyes of the world by processing many details they pay attention to in life into works rich in interest.
Looking closely at Mr. Li Kexiang's works, you will find that he is very skilled in the use and control of color, his flower and bird paintings set colors in different shades, some places have carried out multiple colors, and some places have done it all at once, which can be described as confident and grasped just right. Therefore, his works also appear to be vivid and charming.
In contrast, flower and bird painting has extremely high requirements for "simplicity". Too complicated pictures can easily produce a sense of depression. Mr. Li Kexiang knows that a good flower and bird painting must reflect the simple and ethereal characteristics of Chinese painting. The "multiplicity" without reason will appear messy, and the appropriate "simple and small" will leave the reader with room for imagination.
In his pen, a flower, a tree, a stone, a fish, a bird, and even a small animal are all the products of his observation and understanding. Although it is easy to come by hand, it must come from your own true feelings. Perhaps it is for this reason that his paintings of flowers and birds are intriguing and full of subtle beauty. Truly achieve "conciseness and conciseness".
In the processing of the picture, Mr. Li Kexiang is also very experienced. He believes that the virtual reality and density in Chinese painting are to seek the clarity and clarity of the picture and highlight the key points. Because when people look at things, they often "are absent-minded." Just like the two sentences in the poem "Plum Blossoms" by Li Fangbin, one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou", "There are only two or three branches that touch the eye and tilt across the sky." Therefore, when the painter paints, as long as he focuses on the "two or three branches", he can ignore the others that are "absent-minded". In other words, as long as the focus is sharp and can make a deep impression.
For the viewer, a good painting brings you not only visual enjoyment, but also a taste improvement and soul sublimation. Mr. Li Kexiang uses the flowers, plants, birds and insects of nature as the material, indirectly reflects social life through pen and ink language and art forms, expresses his feelings and will, provides us with a large number of artistic treasures with excellent visual effects, and is a veritable success.