Liu Gang graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Shandong Institute of Light Industry.
He is a member of the Chinese Image Oil Painting Research Association, a member of the Shandong Oil Painting Society, the deputy secretary-general of the Jinan Artists Association, the Oil Painting and Watercolor Painting Art Committee, and the deputy director of the Oil Painting Art Committee of the Jinan Cultural Promotion Association. His works have won many awards and collections in domestic and foreign provinces and cities.
Preface
Every time I see Liu Gang's paintings, I have a desire to express them. Over the years, he has tirelessly expressed bold and even exaggerated colors, explored the fusion of realism and imagery, and tried his best to find the fusion point of figuration and abstraction, so that his work style is full of agility and originality.
Carnation, 60x60cm, oil on canvas
Freehand landscape oil painting has become the most common genre of oil painting today, it is not like abstract landscape oil painting to give people multi-angle imagination, nor is it a sense of luxury brought to people visually by classical landscape oil painting, but pays attention to the capture and depiction of the actual scenery and the expression of the painter's deep feelings, these are his strengths, and his diligence and good learning have been continuously put into different stages of the works to make great progress.
Spring in the Great Depression, 120x80cm, oil on canvas
In the face of natural sketching, capturing the nerve stimulation of vivid scenes is a necessity for artistic creation, and high-level scene sketching is to create works as directly as possible. The painter's selection of scenery, inductive generalization, simple and complex combing, color freeze frame, and sublimation of interest are all achieved overnight, so there is no time and room for hesitation in passionate sketching, painting is a process of coexistence of pleasure and distress, and the objective situation (weather, painting material...) determines the final effect of the picture , character determinants, personal education and experience, appreciation of famous paintings, and self-evaluation of the accumulation and improvement. This "visual pleasure" experience should not only have an intuitive entertainment function, but also highlight the spiritual connotation of high-style cultural literacy, both of which are indispensable. Otherwise, it will not be able to satisfy the eyes of all viewers.
Chaji Sketch, 60x80cm, oil on canvas
Liu Gang's perseverance, courage and diligence in painting are very valuable in today's era, and of course, the most important thing is to paint more. As an oil painting, the richness of the color vocabulary and the ability to express and appeal should still be placed in an important position, and the "artistic conception" of landscape painting is the spiritual soul, and it is also the purpose that he has always pursued, and I believe that his future works will continue to make progress!
Jin Busong
2020.11.15 于青岛
Appreciation of works
Wuyuan Spring, 60x80cm, oil on canvas
Qiongnan Coconut Wind, 60x80cm, oil on canvas
Mid-Autumn, 80x100cm, oil on canvas
Zhangbei: Voice of Autumn, 80x100cm, oil on canvas
Autumn Colors of Lingyan, 50x60cm, oil on canvas
Heshan Wetland, 80x60cm, oil on canvas
Banna "Red Locust Flower" 80x100 oil on canvas
Wheat Field in Heaven, 40x60cm, oil on canvas
"The Suburbs of Wuxi", 50x60cm, oil on canvas
The Rhyme of Aba Prefecture, 60x80cm, oil on canvas
A Corner of Tianjin Street, 50x60cm, acrylic