Li Keyan is a well-known Chinese landscape painting master at home and abroad. His landscape paintings, which can be described as the founding school, are the artistic treasures of an era. Mr. Li Keyan's landscape paintings are deep and dignified, with obvious spirit of the times and artistic characteristics, and his representative work "Wanshan Red Everywhere" is well known by many people inside and outside the industry, in 2012, Li Keyan's "Wanshan Red Everywhere" was auctioned for a high price of 293 million yuan.
Li Keyan, a giant of Chinese landscape painting
As a generation of art masters, Li Keyan is also known as the weather vane of modern red landscape works! Since then, "red theme" works have been sought after by the market due to the overlap of historical value and artistic value, and have become an important category in the field of collecting today.
However, as far as its subject matter is concerned, because Li Keyan's peak stands in front, posterity almost never dared to set foot in the subject area of "Ten Thousand Mountains and Red Everywhere", until the emergence of Wang Yimin. With his unique "Red Taihang" style, he created another field of red landscape and became an artistic monument of contemporary red themes!
Because of his original artistic achievements, Wang Yimin can be said to be another artist who has made painting creations with the theme of "Ten Thousand Mountains and Red Mountains" after Li Keyan and has made pioneering achievements.
Wang Yimin is too good at sketching
Wang Yimin, member of the Sino-American Association, calligraphy and painting artist, president of the China Gongbi Landscape Painting Institute, pioneer of "Red Taihang" landscape painting! Academician of China Ink Research Institute, President of Huacai Guoyun Green Landscape Research Institute. Vice President of Baishan Black Water Painting Institute, Director of Wang Yimin Art Museum.
Bringing together 30 years of artistic accumulation, Wang Yimin has opened up a new development direction for chinese landscape painting art - "Taihang Hong". In his early years, he studied under Mr. Long Rui, the third president of the National Academy of Painting of China and a master of landscapes, and can be described as a re-disciple of Li Keyan.
During this period, the famous landscape painter Zhang Peiwu and the contemporary gongbi landscape masters Liu Tiequan, Wang Yuguo and other gentlemen carefully guided, absorbed the strengths of the families, integrated the artistic techniques of the major schools, and integrated the four major creative techniques of Li Keyan's "Lijia Landscape" of "Image, Image, Emotion, and Scenery" with the Taihang Landscape, transformed the natural landscape into the ink symbols, let the pen and ink and the creation go hand in hand, and opened up the contemporary Chinese landscape painting art school of "Red Taihang".
Wang Yimin's "Ten Thousand Mountains And Red All Over"
In the creation, Wang Yimin usually goes deep into the mountains many times, personally experiences the creative environment, repeatedly observes objective things, in order to explore the true meaning of the landscape, in order to strive to display the vivid image of the natural scene in the picture, he is also never satisfied with simply depicting the external image of the objective object, but strives to seek and express the meaning of the outside of the image, the realm outside the image, in his eyes, must be every stroke contains the most innocent feelings, the creativity containing the connotation of Chinese philosophy as the highest realm of painting pursuit. He said: If art is separated from the creation of self-consciousness, it loses its soul and value. This is the artistic concept that Wang Yimin has adhered to for many years.
In the years of artistic creation, Wang Yimin has climbed the Taihang Mountain eleven times, far away from the ancients, the present teacher, with love into the painting, and finally became a school of its own, becoming another red landscape master after Li Keyan.
Wang Yimin's "Taihang Hong" series of works has solid pen and ink skills, majestic colors, quiet wilderness, and majestic and deep artistic conception. He composed many elements such as green mountains, clear water, lush forests, singing waterfalls, seas of clouds, huts and many other elements, which were thick and thick, majestic, virtual reality, and dripping with pain and happiness, rendering the majestic majesty of the mountains, creating a silent and deep artistic conception, and showing people the magical magnificence and richness of the rivers and mountains of the motherland. Wang Yimin painted the Taixing in his heart with his own unique method, and even more painted the spirit and backbone of the Chinese nation!
Wang Yimin created "Ten Thousand Mountains Red All Over"
Like the contemporary painting giant Li Keyan, Wang Yimin's landscape art is also fond of large-scale red visual techniques, but unlike it, his vermilion display pays more attention to the change of level, especially in the dense level of vermilion, which is extremely cleverly grasped! And this can not only make the tone of the entire landscape tend to be deeper, but also make the picture of the entire landscape become more abundant!
In the use of pen and ink, he organically combines pen and ink, whether it is penmanship or ink, it is based on tradition and presented in a new way, the method is crisscrossed, and the rubbing and dyeing is just right! In terms of the harmony of ink and color, Mr. Wang Yimin also shows a unique personalized treatment, when using ink, the thickness and lightness of the scorch are very, the color method is also naturally changed, and the entire ink color in the painting blends, and the thickness is seen in the smart! The rhythm is clear, not the usual flow!
Wang Yimin, "Ten Thousand Mountains Red All Over Autumn"
In terms of the morphological layout and picture structure of the landscape, although Wang Yimin's "Red Taihang" landscape is also focused on the magnificent Taihang Mountains, he is completely different from the Taihang Mountains drawn by the common pen! In the painting, he did not stick to a single mountain feature, nor was he limited to the simple mountain shape, but made a certain personality summary of the major strange landscapes in the Taihang Mountains, so that the Taihang style in his landscapes could avoid the same visual pattern, thus forming a unique Taihang Danqing appearance of Mr. Wang Yimin! The structure in the painting, the tension is infinite, the peaks are vast, and the view is particularly natural! It's like being there, like appreciating the real scene!
The weather and magnificent scenery of Chia Tai are the outstanding artistic characteristics of "red landscape", which makes it a distance from traditional literati painting. What is grandeur? In "Zhou Yi", there is "great strength, good and virtuous", which symbolizes strength and prosperity, and adheres to the right path. Large, strong and healthy, zhongzheng, laid the foundation for the magnificent character in classical Chinese aesthetics. "Red Landscape" is precisely with a masculine tone, depicting revolutionary ambitions and romantic feelings, highlighting the solemn atmosphere, thus expanding the expressive space of Chinese painting. Li Kejian can be described as his master.
For Wang Yimin, over the years, on the basis of learning to inherit traditional painting, he has continued to innovate, teaching the ancient and not the ancient. These experiences have given his works a deep nourishment, so that his works continue to give people some new visual feelings. The combination of large-scale writing and large-scale brushwork in creative techniques makes its works have both profound artistry and humanistic value.
Teacher Wang Yimin's "Red Taihang" landscape works, both a flexible sketch, but also a far-reaching landscape giant, in the paintings lush forests, flying waterfalls and clouds, houses standing, deep artistic conception, conveying a kind of elegant and unworldly feelings of life.
Viewing Wang Yimin's works, whether they are large-scale masterpieces or skits, can reflect a magnificent and majestic atmosphere and show the tension of an artistic language.
Most of his landscape paintings are bird's-eye view composition, which increases the difficulty of painting, but it is very conducive to creating a broad atmosphere and writing a magnificent rhyme. He also attaches great importance to the use of dialectical techniques such as opening and closing, virtual reality, complexity and simplicity, thickness and lightness, and blank space to create a sense of layering of the picture.
Red spirit, majestic atmosphere. Red is the most beautiful color, it absorbs the vitality of the rising sun, picks up the light of the sunset, calm and unrestrained, enthusiastic and heroic, carrying people's dreams of longing for fiery red and the expectation of Fury. Teacher Wang Yimin used this red in the landscape painting scroll, singing for the development of the country and the progress of the nation, showing the magnificent courage of the mountains and rivers.
His "Red Taihang" landscape works not only illuminate the spiritual atmosphere of an era, but also highlight the passionate artistic feelings of art workers, appreciate them with elegance and customs, and create a new tradition of contemporary Chinese art landscape painting.