Guan Shanyue, a famous Chinese painter and giant of the Lingnan School, once commented: "Books are oil paintings, Chinese paintings and cultivation, and can be integrated." His painting techniques include the study and research of traditional oil painting, the absorption and reference of traditional Chinese painting, and then the formation of a unique artistic symbol that is different from the past. ”
On December 22, 2021, the "Splendid Embroidery of Mountains and Rivers - Exhibition of Li Shucheng's Paintings" was exhibited to the public at the National Museum.
The exhibition selects Li Shucheng's paintings in recent years, from the three aspects of the Red Revolution, splendid mountains and rivers, flowers and fruits, covering the holy land of the Red Revolution, the great rivers and mountains and the red cotton, lychees, peonies, etc., which is not only the inheritance of the realistic tradition in new forms of expression, but also the application and innovation of figurative oil paintings with new visual elements, but also the exploration of nationality and the spirit of the times with new ideological concepts, sincerely expressing the good wishes of praising the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland, praising heroes, and blessing the prosperity and strength of the motherland.
Li Shucheng, born in 1962, a native of Wenchang, Hainan, is a member of the Communist Party of China and graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in literature. He is currently a member of the China Artists Association, a librarian of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government Research Museum of Literature and History, the chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Calligraphers and Painters Association, the honorary director of the Guangdong Soong Ching Ling Foundation, the executive vice president of the General Association of Social Organizations of Guangdong Province, the president of the Guangdong Calligraphy and Painting Art Research Association, the consultant of Guangzhou Digest, the tutor of Li Shucheng Studio of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Project Class of the Academy of Painting of Chinese University, and the vice president of the Painting Institute of the Literature and History Research Museum of the People's Government of Guangdong Province, and the vice president of the Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute.
Li Shucheng is a adherent of realistic oil painting, clinging to his own artistic ideals, on the basis of exploring the personalization of picture expression and modeling characteristics, he is immersed in the expression of real life art forms, and is committed to the exploration of the ontological language of oil painting. He unremittingly explores the essence of painting and its connotation and meaning, uses the brush in his hand to show the truth of life, shows the rich emotions of people's inner world, conveys his own ideas, and sublimates the truth of this life into the beauty of art with unique expression skills.
Exhibition hall scene Photo: Yu Guanchen
Li Shucheng studied at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in his early years, received strict academic training methods, and his modeling ability was steady and solid. His oil paintings cover a wide range of subjects, not only adhering to the grand narrative and the lyricism of revolutionary historical themes, but also depicting the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and the cultural landscape.
In terms of creative methods, we have the courage to open up, exploratorily integrate the lines of Chinese painting with the color blocks, light and shadow and detail processing methods of oil painting, and have ingenuity; abandon the large-scale laying out of traditional oil paintings, capture the freehand stretched lines of Chinese painting as "bones and bones", the next stroke is powerful, the strokes are short, and there are many squares, borrowing the strength of the pen and the short and capable structure, giving the objects in the painting a sense of hard and solid "metal".
Li Shucheng oil painting "Red Cotton Praise Hero", 216cmx170cm, 2020
Li Shucheng oil painting "Lychee Tree", 300cmx200cm, 2018
Li Shucheng oil painting "More Joy in the Snow of Minshan Mountain", 80cmx60cm, 2009
Li Shucheng oil painting "Gutian Conference Shines Forever", 140cmx70cm, 2018
Li Shucheng oil painting "Valley Dot Xin", 100cmx80cm, 2011
Li Shucheng oil painting "All Kinds of Red and Purple Dou Fangfei", 186cmx138cm, 2019
With the pen as a knife, the picture is clearly cut, and the oil painting is colorful and brilliant patches of color as the skin, stacked on the plane layer by layer, forming a three-dimensional structure like diamonds and crystals; starting from the whole, the tone and light and shadow are constantly adjusted around different object themes, so that the color blocks are constantly changing but closely connected with each other, such as the "core line" like a roundabout shuttle, showing the visual effect of "dividing but not dispersing", creating a transparent and coherent aesthetic sense of "crystal" under all angles, forming a dialectical and unified formal logic. The picture is coherent, the sense of layering is strong, the theme is unified, the focus is prominent, and the works are durable, readable and resistant.
"I combine the lines of Chinese paintings with the blocks of oil painting colors, and in the lines run through the forms of blocks, pulling the two together, so in the picture, there are lines that are invisibly rotating and shuttling... I think oil painting must find its own way of expression on the basis of its predecessors. Li Shucheng told Nandu reporters.
Li Shucheng's paintings of red cotton and lychees, with strong colors and strong brushstrokes, are very Lingnan characteristics, attracting many audiences in the exhibition hall. He told Nandu reporters, "Usually Lingnan painters paint kapok and lychees with Chinese paintings, and oil paintings are difficult to express. So I think that if you use oil painting to express it, or paint like a photo, it will be meaningless, and if you paint according to Chinese painting, you can't do it. So I used the method of combining the lines of Chinese paintings with the color blocks of oil paintings. Kapok is characterized by iron bones, so purity is pursued in color, the trunk is dark gray, and the flowers are dark red. The flowers are cut into many sides, a bit like the structure of a diamond, which is the embodiment of my 'metal crystal' creative approach. ”
The exhibition is located in the North 4 Exhibition Hall of the National Museum, and the exhibition period is expected to be 15 days.
Nandu reporter Huang Qian