Abstract: In this era, many artists with the atmosphere of the times and distinct personal styles have emerged. They take the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture as their own responsibility, continuous efforts, continuous innovation, through the ancient and modern, integrated into the East and the West, so that the Chinese painting and calligraphy art showed a new look, the Chinese art gradually pushed to the peak of world art. In order to discover and display the style and excellent works of contemporary artists, "Two New Works of Literature and Art" specially recommends large-scale activities for artists to display the style of contemporary artists to the whole country and the public.
He is currently a member of the China Artists Association, the president of the China Shushou Calligraphy and Painting Art Research Institute, the director of the Healthy Art Museum, the member of the China Arts and Crafts Association, the tutor of the advanced research class of the Art College of Chinese Min University, the chairman of the Art Committee of the China Moruo Calligraphy and Painting Academy, the visiting professor of the China Institute of Foreign-related Economics, the executive president of the China Artist Magazine, the national first-class artist, the honorary chairman of the Shanxi Yuncheng Salt Lake Book Association, and the art association.
In 2014, the "Green Homeland • Hundred Flowers Portrayal" Li Jiankang Calligraphy and Painting National Tour Exhibition (the first stop in Inner Mongolia Hohhot, the second stop in Jiangsu Wuxi, the third stop in Jilin Changchun, the fourth stop in Fujian Dongshan, the fifth stop in Yixing, Jiangsu) achieved a complete success!
In 2015, his work "Huixiang Memory" won the Excellence Award of the "First Bada Shanren National Landscape Painting Exhibition" sponsored by the China Artists Association
In 2015, his work "Four Gentlemen" was selected as the "High Quality and Cleanliness Lan Hui Life" sponsored by the China Artists Association
In 2015, his work "Secluded in the Empty Valley" was selected to be sponsored by the China Artists Association for the "National Chinese Painting Exhibition commemorating the centenary of Pan Jiezi's birth"
In 2018, his work "Autumn Wind Makes Good Sound" was selected for the National Fine Arts Exhibition (Chinese Painting) sponsored by the China Artists Association
In 2018, his work "Autumn Water Long Sky" was qualified for the national Exhibition of Chinese Paintings in the "Poetry Painting City, XiaoXiao Tonglu" sponsored by the China Artists Association
In 2019, his work "Huixiang Memory Moon is Hometown Ming" was selected for the "17th Shanxi Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition".
In 2019, his work "Spring Warm Duck Prophet" participated in the Fifth Gongbi Painting Exhibition in Shanxi Province.
In 2019, his work "Qingfeng Mingcui" was awarded the "Kedu Meizhou. Fengmian Hometown"National Chinese Painting (Landscape, Flowers and Birds) Works Exhibition Admission Qualification. {Hosted by China Artists Association}
Published "Li Jiankang Flower and Bird Painting Collection", "China Hall of Fame Contemporary 100 Calligraphers and Painters Series - Flower and Bird Painter Li Jiankang", "Li Jiankang Fan Sketch Calligraphy Collection", "Chinese Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting Case Study - Li Jiankang Flower and Bird Painting Collection" and so on.
Rooted in tradition, don't shape the new wind - remembering the famous painter Mr. Li Jiankang
In the process of thousands of years of inheritance, Chinese painting has formed a rigorous and broad legal system. If the artistic creation of contemporary painters is separated from this system, what is painted will lose the identity of Chinese painting. On the other hand, if we only act in the old legal system, the things drawn will inevitably be old and old-fashioned, and it will be difficult to have pen and ink as the expression of the times. Mr. Li Jiankang, a famous painter, first laid out the traditional foundation like a rock, and then made a fresh image of contemporary flower and bird works, using inheritance and innovation to lay out pen and ink colors, and the flower and bird works have borrowed the new height of the past and the present!
To discuss the proficiency and rigor of his traditional painting skills, it can be judged from the performance of the bone method with the pen. Mr. Painting, bone method is strong, the pen is calm, the pen is painful, the lines are rigid and soft, just like the iron rock cliff, the old branches and stems of the plum blossoms are very iron casting imagery. When the skin and flesh are soft, the muscles and bones are hidden inside, even if the spring branches are painted in a state of about flowers and willows, there is no state of femininity and weakness. Its pen is strong and qualitative, used to write freehand lotus flowers, can create meaning for the situation, both the Zen rhyme of the lotus flower, and the spirit of the lotus flower out of the mud and not stained! Conveying the spirit and standing bones, it is the rise and fall of the brushwork! In addition, the harmony level of ink painting is also a high level, with water as the way, dyeing without dispute, using ink as a tool, and the five colors are rejuvenated! Paint the lotus flowers with ink blending with the expression of the water, the classicist style is thick and heavy, the golden lotus flowers, the ink masterpieces! Pen and ink kung fu is pure fire, and the traditional method is clear at a glance!
He uses very traditional pen and ink to write freehand flowers and birds, and then in the rendering of colors, he has a very modern expressionist spirit! Heavy colorful flowers and birds, colorful and vulgar, pleasing to the eye, let people see a great heart! Strong color, on the screen to make a weightless repetition, layer by layer rendering, layered, will never be a mess, the ability to control the color of the sense of color and the sense of light is extraordinary! So his flower and bird works are very visually impactful! However, no matter how far the visual effect is pushed, there will be no low-grade stimulation, there is no jianghu atmosphere, and there is a pleasant and vivid atmosphere!
I can hold such a thick color so wonderfully! Why? Because when Mr. Li Jiankang was painting, he consciously and limitedly intervened in the mechanism of light and shadow shaping of some oil paintings, light and shade shaped forms, and the objects painted were full of realism, which just hit the mainstream direction of contemporary aesthetic love of realism! Use the practice of Western painting to radicalize the aesthetic power of Chinese painting, so that his painting "Zhi in a Thousand Miles" has become a model of the harmonious integration of Chinese and Western painting methods, and the style is different!
Rooted in tradition, don't mold new style. His paintings effectively break through the old paradigm of Chinese painting, so that "light and shadow" can guarantee the shaping goal of contemporary Chinese painting with both form and god, which allows Mr. Li Jiankang's paintings to see more international models on the basis of tradition! There are also magnolia flowers and plum blossoms that he painted, which are the best products that use the modernist Danqing language to amaze the world!
Famous calligraphy and painting critic Shi Feng December 10, 2020