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"He has a wealth of knowledge of national painting, mastered skilled ink painting techniques, and has certain achievements. But his path of painting and creation is relatively narrow and limited. You can't draw people, it's hard to represent people. ”
This is the central academy of fine arts' evaluation of Li Keyan, not too biased.
For Li Keyan, he is indeed more fond of painting landscapes. Even his acquaintance with the masters Xu Beihong and Qi Baishi began with a landscape painting.
In 1942, Li Kejian held a painting exhibition in Chongqing.
On display that day, a number of rural landscape paintings were displayed, which were sparse and simple, simple and not ancient. It has attracted a large number of people who love painting, including Xu Beihong.
At that time, Xu Beihong had just moved from abroad to Chongqing, and by chance, he came to this exhibition. Along the way, the admiration is incessant.
Xu Beihong liked Li Keyan's paintings very much, and after hearing that the painter was Li Keyan, he hurriedly asked someone to bring him a message.
"I like mr. paintings very much, and if mr. I want, I would like to exchange my works with his watercolor landscape paintings."
After Li Keyan heard the news, he was quite surprised and hurriedly asked the messenger to convey his meaning.
"Mr. Xu is an old senior in our art world, if he likes my paintings, he likes which one to take, there is no need to exchange."
Li Keyan is quite flattered, after all, Mr. Xu Beihong has long been famous, and he is more famous as "National Hand". He can look at his own paintings, which is nothing less than the greatest praise for himself.
Li Keyan waited with peace of mind for the other party's reply.
Sure enough, a few days later, he received a reply again, which turned out to be Xu Beihong's handwritten letter.
"I love one of the landscapes very much, in exchange with Mr. I painted a cat. You and I, exchange paintings, so that they can intersect. ”
Li Ke was overjoyed and kept the paintings sent by Xu Beihong properly. The two men formally made friends, wrote letters continuously, and formed a deep friendship.
In 1945, Xu Beihong held a group exhibition with Li Keyan, Lin Fengmian and others. At the exhibition, Xu Beihong praised Li Keyan's painting "Shepherd Boy Remotely Pointing to the Apricot Blossom Village".
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Out of love, but also out of love and encouragement for young people, Xu Beihong directly bid to buy this painting.
For a while, no one knew Xu Beihong's appreciation and help for Li Keyan. Li Keyan, a young painter, is also well known to more people and his fame has reached a higher level.
Li Keyan was grateful for Xu Beihong's help and was even more impressed by his character. Although he was always shy and unsociable.
But in order to repay Xu Beihong's love, he often visited his home. Over time, the feelings of the two people have become deeper and deeper.
Li Keyan also learned that Xu Beihong greatly admired Mr. Qi Baishi's paintings, and there were 70 or 80 works of Mr. Qi Baishi in his home alone.
Under the influence of Xu Beihong, Li Keyan had a deep understanding of Qi Baishi's paintings. And the more you learn, the deeper the admiration.
For this reason, Li Keyan often can't help but sigh: "These paintings make my heart yearn and worship them." ”
Xu Beihong saw Xiaoyou like this, and his heart moved, thinking that Li Keyan was extremely talented in paintings. If you can introduce him to Qi Baishi, it will be beneficial for both people.
"You admire Qi Baishi so much, I have the opportunity to introduce you to Mr. Qi."
Li Keyan was excited and looked forward to the day when he could see Old Mr. Qi Baishi.
In 1946, Li Kejian's artistic career ushered in a major turning point.
He successively received a letter of appointment from his alma mater, the Hangzhou National Art College, and a letter of appointment from Mr. Xu Beihong inviting him to teach at the Beiping National Art College.
This made Li Keyan both happy and entangled.
Out of gratitude and love for his alma mater, he has a feeling of giving back to his alma mater in his heart. In contrast, the Peking National Art College is really more attractive.
After all, as an ancient chinese cultural city, it not only has a heavy historical background, but also leads a variety of new cultural waves. It can be said to be "paradise of art"!
What's more, there are also many top painting masters there. For example, the old Mr. Qi Baishi, whom he has always admired.
The "balance" in his heart couldn't help but tilt, and thinking of Xu Beihong's promise to introduce him to Mr. Qi Baishi, he was completely determined to go to Beiping.
At the end of 1946, Xu Beihong held a party at home. In addition to the friends of the painting industry, there are also a number of big names in the literary and art circles.
"But you come, I'll take you to see Old Mr. Qi Baishi."
Li Keyan was surprised and followed Xu Beihong closely, like a well-behaved primary school student.
"Elder Qi, this is Li Keyan, a young man from Jiangnan. He admires you the most and wants to ask you for advice. ”
Xu Beihong worked very hard to qi Baishi "Amway" Li Kejian, but Mr. Qi Baishi had seen too many young people who asked for advice.
As he grew older, he became more and more cautious about "choosing apprentices". It can even be said that there are almost no disciples anymore, and most of the time "recognize paintings and do not recognize people"
Therefore, this hasty meeting between Li Keyan and Qi Baishi did not arouse too much "splash" between the two.
There was not much gain from this meeting, and Li Kejian was a little discouraged. But he didn't want to have an intersection with Qi Baishi again soon, the so-called "karma meeting" was so wonderful!
Li Keyan admired Qi Baishi and was unwilling to give up after a failure. After the end of the year, as soon as the spring began, he visited Qi Baishi again.
This time, he also brought twenty paintings of his own.
At that time, Mr. Qi Baishi was lying on a recliner at home with his eyes closed, and saw that Li Ke was dyed with paintings for him to "reference". Out of love for the young man, he took it in his hand and examined it.
For Qi Baishi, who is in his eighties, he is accustomed to seeing too many excellent paintings. So at first, when I appreciated it, I didn't pay too much attention.
However, after he flipped through several sheets, some of his rickety bodies sat up slightly straight, and even his eyes couldn't help but bloom with eagerness.
He carefully studied the painting for a long time. Li Keyan's landscape paintings are freehand, but they are different from those styles of the past.
Qi Baishi painted cattle
The linear pen and ink structure of the landscape scene in the painting is a clumpy pen and ink structure, mainly ink, and although the whole is simple, it is rich in connotation.
Thick and thick, deep and dense. A new style was explored in the changing of "light" and "ink".
Qi Baishi couldn't help but look at it and exclaimed, "This is the big idea." ”
The old man couldn't help but look at the young people around him, remembering the last time Xu Beihong specially introduced him. Although he met him because of his friendship with Xu Beihong, he never saw his paintings. Therefore, Li Kejian was not remembered as a person.
Seeing the painting now, Qi Baishi realized that Xu Beihong's praise for him was not exaggerated. This time, Li Keyan made Old Mr. Qi Baishi remember him with his own works.
"You're Li Keyan?"
Li Kejian answered in a busy voice.
Qi Baishi was very happy, and the words of praise were endless.
"I saw Xu Qingteng's original handwriting 30 years ago, but I didn't expect to see you as a young man 30 years later."
Xu Qingteng, also known as Xu Wei, was a famous painter during the Ming Dynasty. He is best at painting landscapes and flowers and birds, with a bold brush and a dashing and flowing style.
Qi Baishi has great respect for Xu Wei in his life, and now he can use such words to praise Li Keyan, which shows how much he appreciates Li Keyan!
Qi Baishi said, then got up from the recliner again, took the key on his body and opened a cabinet.
"You must come out with this picture book, with this kind of paper, you don't have, I have ... To use the Colo edition of the fine version. If you don't have money, I'll give you money. In addition, I can help you write the preface. ”
Qi Baishi said while handing the fine leather paper of "Cicada Wing Xuan" to Li Keyan's arms. The tone and movements are tinged with unshirkable toughness.
Li Keyan had to accept it, and his heart admired Old Mr. Qi Baishi more and more.
They talked a lot about the paintings again, and in the evening, Li Keyan was still staying in Qi Baishi's efforts to keep them, and they had dinner together.
During this visit, Qi Baishi and Li Keyan completely formed an indissoluble relationship, and also fulfilled their "master-apprentice" fate.
Qi Baishi appreciated Li Keyan and wanted to accept him as a disciple. It's just that he didn't wait for Li Ke to come to the door to worship the teacher.
He couldn't help but complain to Xu Beihong: "The Li Keyan you said wanted to worship with me, but now he worships or doesn't he worship?" ”
Xu Beihong couldn't laugh when he heard this, and hurried to ask Li Keyan why he had delayed the worship ceremony.
First, because the cow has a coat on its back, it does not look like a cow at first glance, but like a turtle. The second is that this cow, which is plowing the ground, actually "turned along".
Li Keyan wanted to prepare a grand worship ceremony to show his respect for old Mr. Qi Baishi.
After Qi Baishi learned the truth, the depression disappeared completely. Lian Sheng dissuaded: "You don't need to prepare anything, you don't have to spend money, I have money." ”
Li Ke saw this and no longer tangled. Accompanied by Qi Baishi's third son, Qi Ziru, he formally performed the disciple ceremony to Qi Baishi, and the name of the master and apprentice was thus determined.
Li Keyan learned a lot from Qi Baishi, although he did not say that "blue is better than blue", but there is something he is extremely good at.
For example, painting cattle, Li Keyan is better than Qi Baishi.
Qi Baishi once had a famous painting of cattle, and the outside world has always had mixed praise for this painting. The biggest controversy is nothing more than "similarity or dissimilarity".
The cow in the painting is plowing the ground, and because of the rain, the cow is covered with a coat on its back. From a distance, it is quite idyllic, but many people have pointed out two major awkwardnesses in the painting.
Clothing cattle in the rain is a common practice of cattle lovers in the south. So although it looks like a turtle, it can also be explained.
Just painting the cattle that work hard to cultivate the land as "turning" is obviously a common sense error.
The explanation given by the public is that Qi Baishi failed to grasp the charm of the cow, and even Qi Baishi himself often ridiculed himself: "I paint a turtle."
Therefore, in terms of painting cattle, the student Li Keyan has more experience than Qi Baishi. He loves to draw cows and is good at drawing cows.
Once, Li Keyan took dozens of paintings of cattle he had painted to Qi Baishi. After Qi Baishi looked at them one by one, he only felt that he liked the width.
One of the "Cattle Herding Pictures" won his favor the most.
"There are sparse willow branches on the painting, the body of the cow is written from thick ink blocks, and the back, horn, and eye of the cow are also outlined with thick ink lines. The penmanship is clumsy, but full of texture, full of fun, very interesting! ”
For Li Keyan, Qi Baishi never skimped on praise. At the end, he simply proposed that he add a few more strokes to the painting.
Li Keyan naturally would not refuse, although he was a little famous, he was not as good as Master. If Master could make up the pen, the significance of this painting would be absolutely extraordinary.
Li Keyan thought that Master was good at drawing shrimp and insect birds, thinking that he would draw one or two shrimps on the side of the pond, or a dragonfly or a small bird on the horn.
This not only increases the childlike fun of the picture, but also reflects the teacher's style.
But after Qi Baishi "splashed ink and waved", the painting did not have the ones that Li Keyan had thought. Only in the upper right corner of the painting, there are 11 more big characters.
"Can be with words, can dye brother painting, little brother white stone" .
Li Keyan's original painting style is casual and idyllic, and even the drop in the upper left corner is flowing cursive. It is to make the paintings look flexible and ethereal, full of wild interest.
Qi Baishi helped Li Ke dye the "Cattle Herding Map"
But qi baishi's eleven big characters are seal books, which occupy all the blank space in the upper right corner, not to mention, and are also very "bulky". This is completely incompatible with the style of the whole painting, and it seems very incongruous.
Seeing this picture in front of him, Li Keyan was completely dumbfounded.
Loss and speechlessness are mixed, because purely from the aesthetic point of view of the painting, Qi Baishi's supplementary brush can be called a ruined painting!
Li Keyan was heartbroken by this, but he had no choice.
Qi Baishi took the disciple's emotions into his eyes, but he had some calculations in his heart. Although his words affect the overall harmony of the painting, they have other wonderful features.
First, there is the first line of the word "can be with words".
Qi Baishi
This is not written arbitrarily, but it has great meaning.
In Li Keyan's painting, two shepherd boys each ride a buffalo. One of the shepherd boys was holding a wooden stick with a rope tied to it and a small bird.
Another shepherd boy held a bird cage and teased the birds in the willow trees next to him. Seems to want it to throw itself into the birdcage.
And the two little birds looked at each other again, one pitiful and the other anxious.
Zi Yue: You can talk with words but not with them, and you lose people; you can't talk with words and words with words, and you can't talk with words. He who knows does not lose his word.
Li Kejian summed up the whole painting with a sentence of "can be with words": the shepherd boy and the bird, the bird and the bird can each "dialogue".
All of a sudden, it's fun! It's all between the three words of "can be and said".
The second and third lines of Qi Baishi are full of deep meaning.
Qi Baishi and Li Keyan were a solid master-apprentice relationship, and the difference between the two was forty-three years. In the painting, Qi Baishi called Li Ke dyeing "dyable brother" and called himself "little brother Baishi".
Such a title seems to be nothing, but in fact, Qi Baishi "descended from generation to generation", which is commensurate with the Li Keyan brothers. At once, he showed his admiration for Li Keyan and his appreciation for this painting.
With Qi Baishi's position in the painting world, he raised his brush, who is not clear about the value of this painting. After all, Qi Baishi's old man said good paintings, and others could still say bad things with their necks?
All in all, after a "text bonus" from Qi Baishi, the painting was not only not destroyed, but "doubled in value".
In 2011, Jiangsu Wanda International held an autumn auction. At the auction, Li Keyan's "Cattle Herding Map" was "scrambled" by buyers everywhere, and finally directly auctioned for a high price of 77 million.
It should be known that Li Keyan's life's works are numerous and praised. However, no other work can sell for more than this "Cattle Herding Map".
Of course, this is because Li Kejian's painting skills are excellent and his works are excellent. But it is undeniable that the "success" of this painting is inseparable from Qi Baishi's "supplementary pen" bonus.
After all, no one who loves painting can reject Qi Baishi and Li Keyan at the same time!
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