In the current cultural context of the world's great integration, how to maintain its own cultural characteristics in the collision of cultural exchanges, while absorbing the excellence of other cultures, to save the essence, so that Chinese painting in the world to show its unique charm, is an important topic that contemporary artists are exploring.
Lei Jiashou is a painter from Shanxi, a member of the China Artists Association, a national first-class artist, a judge of the Sino-US National Exhibition, a member of the Calligraphy and Painting Expert Art Committee of the Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture, a visiting professor of Beijing Normal University, Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing University of Humanities, Shijiazhuang School of Economics, and the first person to paint Chinese painting in contemporary wild rice, and his works have been collected by national museums, art galleries and other domestic and foreign institutions.
The famous painter Shi Qi once commented that even if Lei Jiashou's works are placed in many exhibitions, it can be seen at a glance that lei Jiashou's works are not subject to nominations. This is the success of Lei Jiashou, whose works are full of ink and ink, and have their own characteristics, especially the theme of wild rice - red sorghum, which is unique in ancient and modern China and abroad, and its innovative ideas have made him an original painter.
Lei Jiashou once said in his own art exhibition that as a painter, he can use what he has learned and use his own hands and pens to sing the praises of our times and our motherland, which is not only the honor of calligraphers and painters but also the honor of calligraphers and painters. Lei Jiashou's flower and bird paintings are for this goal.
Lei Jiashou's works are not Qu Gao and Widow and YangChun White Snow, what you can feel is approachable, this is also his artistic concept, he hopes to be able to get close to the public, into the folk, become the spokesperson of the public, write our folk stories. Lei Jiashou believes that art cannot be elevated, but should be pleasing and improving people's spiritual life, so he is more willing to pay attention to the times and the lives of the people.
Literature and art need to inherit and also need originality, which can also be able to develop sustainably, Lei Jiashou is both an inheritor and a pioneer, inheriting China's freehand flower and bird paintings, creating a unique wild rice painting, which has both ideas and hard work, and the pen and ink skills over the years can finally achieve something.