OURDREAM
Painter Profile
Liu Ke is a member of Qinghai Artists Association, a director of Baoji Cultural Industry Association, and a director of Taibaishan Calligraphers and Painters Association.
Born in 1986 in Baoji, the birthplace of Zhou Qin culture, he has loved painting since childhood, and was admitted to the Sculpture Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 2007. During the school period, he studied hard, received careful guidance from many professors, and laid a solid foundation in sculpture.
After graduating in 2011, he participated in sculpture enlargement work in Xi'an, enhancing his practical ability.
In 2012, he went to Qinghai and participated in the design and production of the Qinghai Lake Sculpture Group; in the reconstruction of Yushu after the disaster, he created a number of Tibetan cultural series of cast bronze sculptures, of which the 9-meter-high masterpiece "Caiyun Soaring", which was unanimously praised by the art community and aroused strong repercussions in the society.
In 2014, he returned to his hometown to start his own business and founded Shaanxi Zhouqin Sculpture Engineering Co., Ltd., which has created more than 200 sculptures for Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shandong, Yunnan and other places.
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Majestic and thick, do as you please
——Appreciation of Liu Ke's sculpture art
Text/Mou Yundao
Baoji is the birthplace of Western Zhou culture and the hometown of bronze ware, where all kinds of famous artifacts come from, which has high artistic value and appreciation value. It just so happened that Liu Ke was born in Mei County, Baoji, and absorbed the nutrition of bronze art from childhood, plus went to Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts to study sculpture art, which made him broaden his horizons even more. Xi'an, a famous historical city, is full of sculptures and cultural relics such as the "Silk Road", which makes his heart full of excitement and shock, and there is the soul of Chinese civilization. Therefore, he sucked the nutrients of art and became a high-achieving student majoring in sculpture and achieved excellent results.
Liu Ke is an idealistic, persistent, upright person, he not only studied the theory of sculpture assiduously, but also worked diligently in practice. For more than a decade, he has ventured into exploration and created a large number of sculptural artworks. In particular, in the reconstruction of the Yushu earthquake in Qinghai, the birthplace of Chinese civilization, Sanjiangyuan, a number of Tibetan cultural series sculptures were created, representative works include "Caiyun Soaring", which was recognized and commended by the local government, and after the media report, a spiritual monument that will never collapse was erected for the people of Yushu who were rebuilt after the disaster, so that he deeply experienced the spiritual strength and spiritual comfort that art brought to the people, and also made his artistic style gradually form.
Liu Ke's sculpture art absorbs the expression method of his hometown bronze, and the general pattern of national culture grows in his bones, fully embodying the characteristics and thickness of sculpture. In that fertile soil grew a simple and pure artistic context; the plump and smooth temperament of sculpture art, the nostalgia rooted in the homeland involved the warmth of his heart, and transformed it into a dream, warm life nourished the soul, so that he completed the transformation from professional technology to professional dream. Liu Ke's sculpture creation follows the law of formal beauty, and reflects a strong ideological spirituality, in the overwhelming wilderness atmosphere is full of a primitive simple atmosphere, its creative inspiration is mostly derived from the perception of bronze and the accumulation of daily life, showing a strong interest in life, the artistic connotation of folk colors, so that Liu Ke perennial immersion and observation and thinking, perception and sublimation, vivid and concrete performance in the composition of the work and the scene of the operation, and the advantages of the deep feeling of the local and folk culture, His works are less routine and mindset, and the free-will personality highlights the majestic artistic realm.
At present, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has become an irresistible historical trend, Liu Ke's sculpture art will inherit the tradition of Classical Chinese art "Making Instruments And Images" and "Chenghuai Guandao", and construct contemporary values with the unique artistic feeling mode and artistic thinking mode of the East, Liu Ke's sculpture art has a wide range of cultural consciousness on tradition and local art. Attaching great importance to the cultural identity of his works, "national spirit, national style, characteristics of the times, and international vision" is the spiritual wealth presented by Liu Ke to the times, the people and the nation.
We expect Liu Ke to create more abundant and diverse sculptures.
(The author is a member of the China Artists Association, a member of the Chinese Sculpture Society, a professor at the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, and a tutor for postgraduate students.) ）
Works Appreciated
Twilight
King Gesar
Prays
racehorse
Shochu
Colorful clouds take off
Carry water
This article is from the A04 edition of Culture and Art Newspaper on February 18, 2022
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