On April 17th, the "Inheritance and Pioneering - Laizhi Steel Ink Art Exhibition" opened at the National Academy of Painting of China, exhibiting more than 100 classic works of painter Laizhi Steel, presenting the audience with a natural ink world with ink accumulation. This is also a concentrated display of laizhigang's artistic creation achievements for more than 40 years.
Lai Zhigang is a painter from the grassroots, who entered Li Xiaoke Art Studio in 2005 to deeply feel and learn the spirit and thought of "Li Jia Shanshui". For decades, Laizhigang has traveled to many places in sketching, and everywhere he goes, he is either looking at the mountains or chasing clouds, and "smoke clouds" have become an important symbolic element in his artistic creation. He said: "In my creation, I have always pursued the poetry of the natural production of the picture and the fairy spirit of the paper. In terms of pen and ink language, I chose the path of pure ink painting in China, and my pictures have extremely transparent black, rich gray, and ethereal white. I think such pure colors are more in line with my character, or in line with my simple aesthetic pursuit of simplicity. In addition, I have been trying to prove through my own artistic practice that Chinese ink expression is not weaker than oil painting. ”
In the past 40 years, Lai Zhigang has deeply studied the traditional ink accumulation painting method, inherited the strengths of Gong Xian, Huang Binhong, Li Keyan and other predecessors of the ink accumulation landscape masters, developed in inheritance, innovated in sketching, and improved in pondering, and gradually formed a style of coming. In his works, the magnificent, empty landscapes and ethereal fluttering and idle smoke clouds show the confident spirit of the times and rich spiritual connotations.
This exhibition exhibits more than 100 masterpieces of style jumping and beautiful artistic conception that Laizhi Steel has carefully created over the years. Among them, works such as "Art Road", "Great Tide", and "Huangshan Smoke and Clouds" are very large in scale and magnificent, showing their majestic and strong momentum in expressing mountain stones, clouds, and water; another batch of hand-scrolled works, such as "Fuchun Mountain Residence Map", "The Great River Goes East", "Jiang Xue", etc., express the natural landscapes such as heaven, earth, water, and fog through delicate ink accumulation brushwork, and the water mist in the picture is steaming and ethereal; what makes people shine is his sketches, although the scale is small, but it is interesting and natural, revealing a trace of natural frankness.
It is reported that the exhibition will last until April 23.