Xu Li
Xu Li is a member of the China Artists Association, the China Calligraphers Association, the China Literary and Art Critics Association, the China Red Chamber Dream Society, and the Comic Arts Committee of the China Artists Association.
Awards: (Domestic) China Art Award, the highest award of Chinese art, the Silver Award of the Creation Award of the China Art Award (the Silver Award of the 11th National Art Exhibition), the Monkey Award, the highest gold prize of Chinese comics, etc. He has participated in 36 exhibitions sponsored by the China Artists Association and the China Book Association, and won 14 awards.
(International) In the "Aiden Daon" international comic contest known as the Oscar of international comics, the then President of Romania and the Speaker of the Turkish Parliament received and jointly presented awards; the Best Illustration Award of the 5th Asian Youth Animation Competition, the Excellence Award of the International Comics Biennale of Jiaxing, China, etc.
He was a judge of the National Art Exhibition and the National Comics Exhibition.
Collections: His works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Feng Zikai Memorial Hall, the Puhua Art Museum, the Italian Museum of Humor, the Turkish Comics Museum and other institutions.
Publication: He has set up art criticism columns in many national newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 3,000 works of various types.
Personal monographs: "Three Kingdoms of Great Painting" Shanghai Press, "Dream of the Red Chamber" Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, "Cherish and Rejoice" Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House, etc.
Solo exhibition: "Play with Drama--- Xu Li Ink Painting Exhibition" Beijing, Huangyuan Art Museum, "Xu Li Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition" Qingzhou, Xu Li Art Museum, "Xu Li Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition" Heze City Library, etc.
The highlight of Xu Li's works lies in the fun inside and outside the painting, reaching the state of "wonderful". The theme is natural, wild, dashing, bold, with literati interest, intriguing. Seemingly random pen and ink lines, exuding a calm atmosphere, light, simple and free.
The works have both traditional pen and ink skills and modern consciousness, and have the wit, philosophy, fun and Zen of traditional Chinese literati. The characteristics of Xu Li's works can be summarized in four sentences: the form is good and fun, the thinking is easy to ponder, the pen and ink skills are profound, and the personal characteristics are distinctive in style.
Xu Li's works are eye-catching. Combining the method of extreme folk and the method of extreme literati painting, it is very stable and freehand. Each one has a new experience, a new thinking. He is very simple, his pen and ink is quite not simple, used very freely, with great emphasis on the thick and thin lines, thick and light, strong and weak changes, plus the color is very coordinated, showing flesh and blood... He uses inscriptions to express his own arguments, and his arguments are very interesting, combined with real life, funny and humorous, to express approval of the beautiful things in reality, and to spur and motivate ugly things. These things are contained in art, not blunt preaching. The language is humorous, and the painting is humorous.
--Shao Dazhen
▲ "When you see it clearly, you will look down on it"
▲ "Why do you have to say broken when you see through"
Xu Li's image stylist has a good imagery pen and ink, combining traditional drama with real life, combining poetry, calligraphy and painting, humorous and funny comic elements with the elegant philosophy of literati painting. In recent years, the use of comic book thinking as an opera and contemporary characters has been admired.
——Liu Xilin
▲ "Bodhisattva Cimei Vajra Angry Eyes"
▲Cangyang Gyatso Poems
To see Xu Li's painting exhibition, it takes five words: appreciation, search, reading, taste, enlightenment, that is, to appreciate skills, find fun, read literature and knowledge, taste life, and understand the truth. Convey the positive energy of the artist.
--Li Ronghai
▲"There is a fish map"
▲ "The Bird Is Afraid to Disturb Me"
Xu Li integrates comics and literati paintings as one, with a few touches of suitable bright colors embedded in the light elegance, supplemented by witty and humorous comments, and uses drama paintings to achieve his own wishes.
- Feng Yuan
▲ "Flowers look half open"
▲"Drunken Spring Breeze"
Xu Li brother is a real painter. His figure paintings, caring for life, are all kinds of things, always so wonderful and beautiful, ready to come out, are spiritual and amorous wisdom, slowly growing; he originally used the traditional methods of calligraphy to write paintings, so the line quality is extremely high, willfully driving the pen, and following the fate. I think that Chinese literati Chinese painting should be like writing the heart, when it is like an elegant product. His article style is also solemn and harmonious, pleasing to my eyes, pleasing and sturdy. In this world of thin affection, Xu Li lives affectionately and gives warmth to all sentient beings. The world is not worth it, the old Xu is worth it.
- Wu Wei
▲ "Cold and warm only self-knowledge, there is a proposition in the heart"
▲ "On the balcony of the chrysanthemum, leisurely see the South Building"