"Standing in front of the huge ink landscape of Laizhi Steel, you will be enveloped, shocked, conquered and moved by an emotional atmosphere like listening to the last movement of the "Symphony of Sorrows"! The sense of solemnity and sublimity in the picture is undoubtedly the Chinese spirit of art that inspires you! Wang Zhong, former deputy director of the Theory Committee of the China Artists Association and former editor-in-chief of Fine Arts magazine, sighed.
On April 17th, "Inheritance and Pioneering - Laizhi Steel Ink Art Exhibition" opened at the National Academy of Painting of China. The exhibition is jointly sponsored by guangdong Museum of Art, Li Kejian Painting Institute, China Art News, and undertaken by Shenzhen Laizhi Steel Jimo Landscape Painting Culture and Art Development Co., Ltd., with the theme of "inheritance and development", a total of more than 100 classic works of zhigang are exhibited, which is a concentrated report display of the artist's artistic creation achievements for more than 40 years. More than 100 people, including guests, media, collectors, art lovers and all the staff, gathered together, and the atmosphere was warm.
The opening ceremony of the exhibition was presided over by Wang Ping, president and editor-in-chief of China Art News. Mr. Li Baolin, a famous painter and former vice president of the Chinese Painting Society and a famous art theorist, jointly announced the opening of the exhibition. The following academic seminar was presided over by the famous art theorist Wang Yong.
Group photo of the guests at the opening ceremony
The scene of the academic seminar
In the early years, the theme of "inheritance and pioneering" inscribed by Mr. Zou Peizhu was not only an encouragement to Laizhigang, but also a ardent expectation for him, and it was also the artistic original intention that the painter Laizhigang had always upheld for so many years. In the past 40 years, he 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, familiarized himself with the laws of the ink accumulation language, developed in inheritance, innovated in sketching, improved in pondering, and gradually formed a style of coming. In his works, the majestic, grand and magnificent landscapes and ethereal and ethereal smoke clouds show the self-confident and majestic spirit of the times and the rich spiritual connotation, which can be called a typical representative of contemporary ink landscape painters.
In this exhibition, the painter Lai Zhigang brought more than 100 masterpieces of diverse scales, jumping styles, and pure artistic conceptions that he had carefully created over the years, which fully demonstrated his artistic talent for painting, which corresponded to the poetry of Cao Zijian, a representative figure of Jian'an literature and a collection of masters two thousand years ago: "Wen Ruo Chunhua, Si Ruo Yong Quan; Speech can be sung, and the next pen is written." ”。
Cloud map 960x250cm 2015
Yidao 249x1134cm, 2009
His works such as "Art Road", "Great Tide", "Huangshan Smoke And Clouds" and other oversized and imposing, in the expression of mountains and stones, clouds, water and other aspects of the Southern Song Dynasty Li Tang's fierce road, open and close, full of majestic and strong momentum.
Fuchun Mountain Residence 50x1000cm 2019
Jiang Xue ( 249x31cm ) 2021
At the same time, another batch of his hand-scrolled works, such as "Fuchun Mountain Jutu", "The Great River Goes East", "Jiang Xue", etc., infiltrate the natural landscapes such as heaven, earth, water and fog through delicate ink accumulation brushwork, and express themselves in the air, so that the picture presents a vibrant, moist and subtle texture... Looking at it, the water mist is steaming and ethereal, which has a kind of immortal charm that pays tribute to the ancient meaning, making people swim in it and forget the dust outside.
Morning Cloud Fishing Song 97x60cm, 2017
Hidden Snow 70x46cm 2021
In addition, what makes people shine is his sketches, although the size is small, but it is interesting and natural, the painter will feel and the pen power into one, in one breath, revealing a trace of natural frankness derived from the instinct of "Tao".
Lai Zhigang said that all my attention in painting was focused on "change" and "life". "True" is the attitude of my artistic pursuit, and the most important thing for an artist is to maintain a pure spirit and a pure heart.
Laizhigang paints smoke clouds with the technique of accumulating ink, which has both momentum and thickness, and is in line with the unity of nature and man and the harmonious ideas of humanity that Taoists have always pursued in Chinese culture and art. "The Tao tong heaven and earth are outside the form, thinking into the perversion of the wind and clouds." The painter Lai Zhigang brought his ink works to the shape of the road, with a sincere heart, to reproduce a pure natural ink world for the viewer.
Huangshan Smoke Cloud 180x500cm, 2010
Sanctuary 1375x250cm 2020
Cloud Roll Boom Rush 97x60cm 2017
Chen Chuanxi, a professor at Chinese Min University, a doctoral supervisor and a well-known art critic, said: "Laizhi steel painting clouds and mountains are really a must in ancient and modern times, both momentum and thickness, and its majesty and thickness are exactly in line with the weather of New China." I think Lai Zhigang's "Art and Tao" is a representative of contemporary landscape painting, especially in line with the spirit of the times. ”
Wang Yong, a well-known art theorist and researcher of the China Academy of Art, said: "Mr. Laizhigang's contemporary ink new landscape painting has created a new style in the creation of contemporary Chinese landscape painting. The modern transformation of traditional Chinese landscape painting has been realized. He brought the 'accumulation of ink' to the extreme, truly achieved the effect of thick Huazi in the landscape, and used the ink accumulation method to make up for the lack of thick landscape of the Song people, which is also his personal creation. ”
It is reported that the exhibition will last until April 23.
Nandu reporter Huang Qian