In the Chinese modern and contemporary painting world, Li Keyan is a well-deserved generation of masters, he has studied under Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, opened a new generation of new winds, his Li family landscape because of its unique style, for the world's attention, the auction price of works has reached hundreds of millions of yuan many times.
Today, the master is no longer there, but the Li family landscape has not been lost to the world. Li Keyan's granddaughter Yu Yuhua learned to paint with Li Keyan from an early age, mastered the true inheritance of her grandfather, and can be called the first person in contemporary Li School landscape painting art and the third generation of Li School landscape masters.
The teenager Yu Yuhua is infected with his maternal grandfather Li Ke
At the age of seven, Yu Yuhua was at Li Keyan's side, grinding for Li Keyan, observing his grandfather's painting and coloring, and had a real understanding of Li Pai's landscape painting style and aesthetics. Li Keyan also loved this granddaughter who liked to paint since she was a child, and specially carved a seal "Childlike Heart Dyeable" to Yu Yuhua. After that, Yu Yuhua often accompanied his grandfather, day and night, asking for painting techniques and experiences, and in the face of his granddaughter who was thirsty for knowledge, Li Keyan had no reservations and taught them. Yu Yuhua gradually grasped the essence of his grandfather's way of painting, and was regarded as "passing on the mantle".
When she was in her twenties, Li Keyan specially gave her a name "Li Yu Dye", which showed his high recognition.
In his later years, Li Keyan was painting
Later, Li Keyan once said: Yu Dye (Yu Yuhua) has accompanied me since childhood, and has considerable artistic talent and painting potential, so he often cultivates him carefully and teaches him by example, hoping that he will inherit the family painting career. Guan Yu dyes paintings, works tirelessly and diligently, and inherits the painting style and painting art of my generation in an orderly manner, which is quite gratifying. ”
Yu Yuhua's work "Hong luck is the head"
In terms of technique, Li Kejian's ink has reached the realm of divine immersion, and his most representative "three unique skills" are ink accumulation, color stacking, black and white flying ink, and Yu Yuhua has used it perfectly. She paints on top of the accumulated ink, and the color of the picture is layered and dyed, and the majestic and vast momentum naturally gushes out. And with the ink color as the background, it is set off, and the atmosphere of a traditional literati painting overflows from the picture.
Yu Yuhua's work "Ten Thousand Mountains Red All Over"
In terms of composition, Yu Yuhua reproduced the most distinctive "monumental composition" and "door panel composition" in the Lijia landscape, so that the mountains and rivers are filled with pictures, and the viewer can feel its impressive momentum and huge visual impact at first glance. Li Kejian grew up in the revolutionary era, and he wanted the mountains and rivers in the painting to be like monuments, highlighting the solemn and sacred sense of the times. In Yu Yuhua's paintings, there are more feminine and some women's gentleness, and his paintings have both Li Kejian's charm and his own unique style and sense of the times.
Yu Yuhua's work "Baby Cow Diagram"
In the choice of objects, Li Keyan is good at painting cattle, because he lived in the countryside in his youth and has a deep affection for cattle. His cattle, "more is too broken, less is not enough", both form and god, together with Qi Baishi's shrimp, Xu Beihong's horse, and Huang Gui's donkey, are called the four best chinese ink paintings. Influenced by her maternal grandfather, Yu Yuhua also has a special love for cattle, and she inherits the dyeable brushwork and ink rhyme, which can often make the viewer's jaw, thinking that it is dyeable and regenerated. If you look closely, you will find that the cattle in her pen have a little more freshness, and there is both inheritance and development of Li Keyan's brushwork.
Li Kuchan, a giant in the modern painting world, once said: "Yu Yuhua has pushed the dyeable landscape painting technique to the extreme in the use of pen and ink, giving people great artistic appeal. His paintings have the most dyeable artistic atmosphere and the most dyeable pen and ink charm; In terms of artistic thought, it is in the same line as Mr. Li Keyan, showing extremely high artistic skills and extensive artistic accomplishment, and is a well-deserved inheritor of the 'Li Pai Landscape' art. "It's exact.
In addition to painting, Yu Yuhua's father, Yu Lu, was the president of the Jiangnan Poetry and Painting Academy, and Yu Yuhua followed his father and extensively studied ancient classics such as poetry and song, making his paintings have a deep humanistic heritage.
Yu Yuhua's work "Spring in the World When Plum Blossoms"
"The courage of the precious, the soul of the demanding", this is the painting path that Li Keyan adhered to. Yu Yuhua inherited the "soul" of lijia landscape and used his "guts" to open up new roads and eventually carry forward the lijia landscape.
Yu Yuhua
Yu Yuhua
The granddaughter of the Master of Chinese Painting Li Ke
The first person in contemporary Li Pai landscape painting
Artistic Advisor of the Association for the Development of Buddhist Studies on Both Sides of the China Strait
Deputy Secretary-General of Jiangsu Writers Association Writers Calligraphy and Painting Association
Senior painter of Jiangsu World Expo Poetry Calligraphy and Painting Institute
Executive Director of Jiangnan Poetry and Painting Institute
Visiting Professor of Nanjing Yizhuzhai Art Research Institute
Senior Consultant of Nanjing Zhongshan Calligraphy and Painting Institute
The granddaughter of Li Keyan, a master of Chinese painting, has loved calligraphy and painting since childhood, graduated from the postgraduate class of Chinese painting at Nanjing Academy of Arts, studied under her grandfather Li Keyan, her father Yu Lu, her mother Li Yuqin, and was guided by her aunt Li Qi, inheriting the painting skills and spirit of the Li family's landscapes, and has a line with Li Keyan. His works have been collected by major museums and art galleries for many times.
In 2009, Mr. Ma Man Kei, former Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and President of the Macao General Chamber of Commerce, collected three of her works. In the same year, the "gambling king" Ho Hung-sun collected ten works by Yu Yuhua at a high price. In 2010, Yu Yuhua's works were collected by Fok Chun-wan, Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Fok Ying Tung Group. In 2012, Yu Yuhua visited Taiwan, and Lien Chan, honorary chairman of the Kuomintang, and Gou, chairman of Foxconn Group, also competed to collect his works.