In the twentieth century, the Chinese painting world is full of talents, famous artists, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong and Pan Tianshou are among the leaders, known as the four masters of the twentieth century, they are good at their own strengths, standing at the peak, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Pan Tianshou are good at flowers, insects and birds, and all are famous for their freehand style, only Huang Binhong is the grandmaster of landscape painting. Of course, Pan Tianshou is also good at painting landscapes, and created his own "landscape flower and bird painting" to break the pattern.
Li Kuchan's work: "Morning Light"
The author has talked about Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi and Huang Binhong in many previous articles, and recently received comments from netizens, Li Kuchan and Pan Tianshou have similar styles, and they are both good at painting eagles, herons, giant waterfowl, grandiose, and spicy with a pen, why is the auction price of the work or the overall reputation inferior to Pan Tianshou, is Li Kuchan's level really inferior to Pan Tianshou?
Pan Tianshou Twin vultures
Li Kuchan's 1981 work: "The Goshawk is a Mandarin Duck without fighting"
First of all, I think that the names of Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong and Pan Tianshou are definitely not imaginary, and the four masters are comprehensive strength, not a single dimension of painting. Moreover, the painters of the twentieth century, such as Fu Baoshi, Zhang Daqian, and Wu Hufan, are all famous artists, and the fact that they are not ranked among the four masters does not mean that they are not at a good level. We'll talk about this later, but let's talk about the paintings of Li Kuchan and Pan Tianshou.
Pan Tianshou Eagle Rock Mountain Flower Diagram
I privately thought that the paintings of Pan Tianshou and Li Kuchan were strange and unrestrained, and the strength was through the back of the paper, and "South Pan and North Li" were all leaders. However, Pan Tianshou's sense of innovation is stronger, Li Kuchan's paintings are more mellow and elegant, and Pan Tianshou's brushstrokes appear thin and hard, with strange and steep beauty.
Li Kuchan's 1981 work: "The Same Contract with Heaven"
Pan Tianshou is good at creating risks, and then breaking dangers, in Pan Tianshou's works, the mountains and rocks are huge, and the huge flowers and birds as the background are in the center, and then draw a few frogs under the boulders, which can be broken dangerously, and the momentum is vast and can be delicate. This point is indeed the master's handwriting, and Li Kuchan's composition is to imitate the composition of the Bada Shanren, draw out, and the realm outside the painting is big, Li Kuchan pursues the ultimate in oriental composition, and Pan Tianshou pursues the balance and creation between China and the West, on the whole, Pan Tianshou is better.
Pan Tianshou Frog Stone Diagram
Chen Chuanxi said that the only masters of modern and contemporary Chinese painting are Qi Baishi and Huang Binhong, and the masters need to start a sect, followed by everyone and famous artists. He thinks that Li Kuchan can also be called everyone. The reason why Li Kuchan is everyone and did not become a master is not because of the gap with Pan Tianshou, in fact, I love Kuzen more paintings, I think Kuzen is more flexible. The failure of Kuzen lies in oneself. To become a master, in addition to painting, poetry, calligraphy, and printing are indispensable.
Li Kuchan's work: "Mountain Zhongying"
For example, Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Qi Baishi are like this, Wu Changshuo is a master of seal carving, although Huang Binhong rarely makes seals, but its collection of thousands of ancient seals, a lifetime of research, Pan Tianshou's seal is fierce, Baishi is also a master of seal carving. Only bitter Zen is weak, and in poetry, bitter Zen seems to be lacking, but because of Kuzen's hard practice of Wei Bei, calligraphy skills are very strong, so although poetry and seal are lacking, he is still the most accomplished one among the Qi sect people.
Pan Tianshou was angry
And I think the reason why Li Kuchan is a little different from Pan Tianshou is that although Pan Tianshou worships Wu Changshuo as his teacher, in addition to Wu Changshuo, he learns from others, and it is almost difficult for us to see the appearance of Wu Changshuo's apprentice from his works, and he even learned the Fa from Huang Binhong in his later years. And Li Kuchan almost only learned Qi in his life, although there was the influence of the Eight Great Congresses and Wu Changshuo, but Kuchan did not seem to have stepped out of the trap of the Qi school in his life.
Pan Tianshou ploughed the map
Although Qi Baishi once said, "Ying has also passed me", which means that Kuzen has surpassed my skills, but so what, there is only one Qi Baishi in China, no matter how good Kuzen is, after all, it has not come out, but we don't need to care about the false name of the master, let alone what auction price, art, from the heart, like and love enough!
Appreciation of Li Kuchan's works:
Li Kuchan Panasonic Heron 30s
Li Bitter Zen Ying 40's
Li Bitter Zen Works: Aranagisa No-Tori
Li Kuzen's works of flowers and birds: loquat is full of forests in May
Li Bitter Zen Flower Works: He Tang Sui Yu
Li Kuzen chrysanthemum works: Chongyang sound
Li Kuzen kingfisher lotus work: Zhaohui
Li Kuchan's ink chicken work: splashed ink chicken bamboo picture
Li Kuzen's works of flowers and birds: the sound of wooden pen and wood pecking
Li Kuzen's Flower and Bird Works: Xianzi Jinjie
Li Kuchan's flower and bird works: red plum blossom picture
Li Kuchan lotus works: Ying Zhaohui
Li Kuzen's flower and bird works: grape double finch picture
Li Kuzen's Flower and Bird Works: Thick Spring Picture
Li Bitter Zen Flower Painting: Song Zhao
Li Kuchan osprey masterpiece: Chifeng white feather map
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