"Where there is ice and snow, there is a school of ice and snow painting!" This is the heroic oath made by Yu Zhixue, the leader of the Ice and Snow Painting School, to the disciples of the Ice and Snow Painting School. For more than 30 years, the Ice and Snow Painting School has created a precedent for Chinese cold culture, and has given ice and snow art a new aesthetic meaning and connotation with a new artistic concept.
Yu Zhixue once said: Lü Yandong is one of the few disciples among my many disciples who has deeply grasped the essence of my ice and snow art, and he is also my ice and snow art evangelist and art mentor. His works are rich in coldness and elegance, condensed in nature, constantly exploring in the creation of ice and snow painting, using the combination of Chinese painting techniques and ice and snow painting techniques to express the beauty of art, creating a unique beauty of ice and snow, and creating a new artistic realm of ice and snow landscapes.
Yu Zhixue ice and snow people
Pioneer of color ink ice and snow
Famous ice painter
Director of the Capital Academy of Calligraphy and Painting
Director of Beijing Yuzhixue Art Academy
Standing Director of China Ice and Snow Painting Research Association
Lü Yandong, Zi Chun, the lord of the Xuezhai, was born in Heilongjiang in 1971. Guoli artist, national first-class artist, member of Heilongjiang Provincial Art Association, creative researcher of Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Painting. Studied under Mr. Yu Zhixue, the founder of the Chinese Ice and Snow School.
In 2011, he represented China's Ice and Snow Landscape and visited South Korea, Japan and Singapore. In 2012, he was invited to participate in the International Exhibition of Calligraphy and Painting at the Louvre museum in Paris, France. In 2014, he was awarded the title of "China's Top 100 Outstanding People's Artists", and many works participated in domestic and international exhibitions, and many works were cherished by famous Chinese and foreign collectors. In 2014, his work "Ruixue Qingchuan" was selected for the Sino-Russian International Ice and Snow Painting Exhibition. In 2018, he was invited to participate in the exhibition at the World's top art institution Dubai Art Centre. His series of ice and snow panda paintings is collected by 22 countries, including the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Togo, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and the Republic of Namibia.
Giant pandas have always been known as China's "friendly ambassadors", and on the friendship bridge between China and foreign countries, there have been traces of giant pandas since ancient times. As early as the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty, the giant panda was given as a state gift to neighboring Japan, which was the first time that the giant panda went abroad as a friendly messenger. After the founding of New China, the giant panda was used as a national gift and became a friendly emissary sent by the mainland to the United States, France and other Western countries.
In the art of painting in the mainland, landscape and flowers and birds are two different art systems, so they will be divided into landscape painters and flower and bird painters. Mr. Yu Zhixue founded the Ice and Snow Painting School, supplemented the Chinese Painting For thousands of years, there is no history of ice and snow painting, known as a millennium Zhixue, and became the world's recognized Kaipai Grandmaster after Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, and Fu Baoshi.
After deeply understanding the essence of the ice and snow landscape, Lv Yandong's fusion performance of the national treasure panda with the ice and snow landscape is also groundbreaking, making the performance of the ice and snow landscape more abundant, and promoting the further development of the ice and snow landscape, which also has important historical significance.
In addition, the emergence of Lu Yandong's "ice and snow panda" also makes the emotions conveyed by ice and snow paintings warmer. Ice and snow paintings mostly show the vast objects of snow-covered mountains and rivers, and rarely depict the delicate forms of flowers and birds. The ice and snow landscape is mostly to express the cold beauty of the snow in the content. In the picture, there are, reindeer and other animals appearing, which is only an embellishment of the picture.
Lv Yandong's "Ice and Snow Panda" perfectly matches both flowers, birds and landscapes, and places the cute pandas in a wider ice and snow landscape. The ice and snow landscape shows "white mountains and black water", and the panda is black and white, which is a match made in heaven from the perspective of color imagery, which is very appropriate.
He deeply understood the essence of the ink panda, integrated the unique techniques of the ice and snow painting school, created the ice and snow panda, and opened up a new realm for Chinese flower and bird painting and ice and snow landscape painting. Lü Yandong adopted a freehand painting method, and in just a few strokes, the lively and cute image of the giant panda was vividly expressed.
The shade of ink is also used just right, the light ink outlines the outline of the panda, and the dark ink block dyes the panda's coat color. Due to the characteristics of rice paper infiltration, the pen melted with thick ink to show the panda's fluff, making the panda full of dynamic and lifelike.
What is more rare is to place the panda between the real mountains and real waters, which reflects the state of the panda's agility and freedom. In such an environment, the panda behaves more vividly and energetically, in the wild, free and happy.
The light and shadow of oil painting, the freehand of flowers and birds, the realism of ice and snow, cool colors, warm colors, jingxin, Lv Yandong's ice and snow panda is a unique artistic innovation, and it is also a unique artistic style of ice and snow landscape in the contemporary painting world!