"People with culture can more condense their hearts; with art, it is easier to communicate with the world." In order to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, use new technologies and new means to stimulate creative inspiration and enrich cultural connotations, the "Lingjing People's Art Museum" and the Li Kejian Art Foundation will jointly release six "extraordinary" Li Xiaoke limited ink digital collections on April 20 to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of the famous artist Mr. Li Xiaoke.
Chinese ink painting contains the genes of Chinese culture and is also the symbol and symbol of China's excellent traditional culture. The world of ink painting is simple and rich, it is fused with water and ink, black and white, the brush strokes are thick and light, light and deep, light and heavy, real-time virtual... Ink painting began in the Tang and Song dynasties, and still has a strong artistic vitality, not only giving birth to Chinese ink painting itself, but also emerging Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, Li Keyan, Zhang Daqian, Lin Fengmian and other art masters. Through ink painting, we can feel the artist's rich meaning of expressing the world, the integration of external nature and inner soul, and we can also explore the chinese cultural spirit and the inheritance and development of Chinese art.
"'Ink painting' is the main language I have chosen in my artistic career, and it is also the cause: father, landscape, the expression of Chinese painting... It carries the characteristics of oriental culture. I have always strived to connect tradition with nature and life, and constantly look for new possibilities for ink expression. "Li Xiaoke, a famous artist, a national first-class artist, and the son of Li Kejian." He once served as a librarian of the Central Research Museum of Culture and History, a member of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the China Artists Association, the director of the Art Committee of the Beijing Academy of Painting, the chairman of the Li Keyan Art Foundation, and the president of the Huangshan Calligraphy and Painting Institute. On the basis of inheriting Li Keyan's artistic spirit and Chinese painting tradition, Li Xiaocan can face life and the times with an open vision, find his own personalized artistic language from the strong feelings of real life, pay attention to performance on the basis of heavy experience, integrate self-emotion and authenticity into creation, find his own "ink homeland", and expand the new artistic conception of Chinese painting. Representative works include "Ink Homeland", "Summer", "Palace Wall", "Palace Snow", "Echo of the Ancients", "Mountain Soul", "Far Away", "Ink Creation", "Huangshan World Nothing" and so on. His artworks are collected by many art museums, important institutions, collectors at home and abroad, including the Palace Museum, the National Art Museum of China, the Beijing Academy of Painting, the Macao SAR Government, the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom, and the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco.
The "Extraordinary" Li Xiaoke Limited Ink Digital Collection selects six works from the ink homeland and snow collection series, of which "Yin", "Gong Xue", "Cai Lian", "Spring Moon" and "Echo" these five works show the tranquility of the ancient capital of Beijing and the holiness of the mysterious Tibetan area, and also show the inheritance and development of Chinese ink painting. The five works will be distributed in a limited number of people's network platforms (10,000 copies per edition). In addition, Li Xiaoke's "Mountain Soul" (2017) in the "Snow Hidden Traces - Tibet" series will be issued as a special edition with a limited edition of 2,000 copies. "Not trivial" Li Xiaoke limited ink digital collection through the people's chain platform for blockchain certification, and in the people's network platform for unified management of personal collections, with a unique number, permanent deposit, can not be copied, can not be tampered with and other characteristics, is of great collection value. The series will be released on April 20, and netizens can purchase it directly through the "Lingjing People's Art Museum".
"Lingjing People's Art Museum" is committed to using content technology to better help popularize popular art works, promote the people to improve their art appreciation, and let art enter the homes of ordinary people. "Li Kejian Art Foundation" is a state-level art foundation established in 1998, with the purpose of promoting Chinese national culture and actively promoting the development of contemporary art. The digital collection distribution of "Lingjing People's Art Museum" will focus on art, performance, film and television, public welfare and other fields, aiming to make China's excellent traditional culture an important source of literary and artistic innovation with the help of new technical means.
"Extraordinary" Li Xiaoke limited ink digital collection introduction
This digital collection is selected from Mr. Li Xiaoke's "Ink Homeland - Beijing" and "Snow Hidden Traces - Tibet" series.
1. "Shade" of the "Ink Homeland - Beijing" series: Li Xiaoke has a childlike attachment and nostalgia for Beijing, walking on the streets of the old city of Beijing, feeling the light and rich shade under the locust forest, and the author has a strong desire to create. Abstract lines intertwine dancing tree trunks, changes in ink color render the tranquility of the boulevard, and the combination of movement and static shows the flourishing vitality of nature.
Shade, ink on paper, 68cm×68cm, 1993
2. "Gong Xue" of the "Ink Homeland - Beijing" series: "Gong Xue" integrates the abstract red palace wall with the white snow, Li Xiaoke is based on traditional ink expression, absorbs the contemporary visual experience, and then creates a new pen and ink language. Snow gives people a warm winter weather, in the snowy frosty pen and ink to perceive the beauty of purity more deeply, melting in the heart.
"Gong Xue", coloring paper, 68cm×68cm, 2003
3. "Snow Hidden Traces - Tibet" series of "Cai Lian": In order to find new artistic inspiration, Li Xiaoke has visited Tibet more than 30 times in more than 30 years and built his own spiritual home with pen and ink. In the painting, the snowy mountains in the distance are like waves, and the color practice in the near distance is warm and orderly. The tone of the work is both thick and bright, and the solemn rendering of the vitality of the birth machine, the integration of the majesty of nature and the Tibetan humanities, which is exactly what the author pursues" "There must be fireworks in my works".
Coloring on Paper, 89.8cm×97.4cm, 2014
4. "Spring Moon" in the "Snow Hidden Traces - Tibet" series: "Spring Moon" records the fragrance of spring, and a plump peach tree occupies three-quarters of the picture, full of vitality and vitality. In the spring of 2013, Li Xiaoke passed through Bomi Peach Blossom Valley, and came across the snow falling from the sky when the centennial peach blossom forest was in full bloom, and the author jumped the shock of natural beauty on the paper, using written lines and symbolic points to form a picture with contemporary painting forms in separation and interweaving, conveying hope and energy.
Spring Moon, coloring on paper, 103cm×99cm, 2017
5. "Echoes" of the "Snowy Hidden Traces - Tibet" series: "Echoes" carries Li Xiaoke's reverence for the nature of the plateau and Tibetan culture, and the distant mountains and the near-view buildings are integrated, presenting the realm of the unity of heaven and earth. The vast and cold brushstrokes are full of delicate warmth, flowing with strong humanistic care and sincere emotions of embracing nature.
Echo, colored on paper, 53cm×45cm, 2016
Special Edition: "Mountain Soul" of the "Snow Hidden Traces - Tibet" series: Li Xiaoke has his own unique artistic language for the performance of snow, depicting the majestic momentum of the snowy mountains while using traditional Chinese ink brushstrokes to express the unique magnificence, holiness, vastness and mystery of the plateau snowy mountains.
Mountain Soul, colored on paper, 123cm×246.5cm, 2017