A rare master of Chinese painting sketching - Li Hu

Li Hu (1919-1975), known as Baifeng, was born in Dazhu County, Sichuan Province. Famous Chinese painter and art educator. Li Hu is a Chinese painter who has made pioneering achievements in Chinese painting techniques. Li Hu has created a large number of unique landscape paintings of night scenes. In 1962, he served as the director of the figure department of the Chinese painting department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts until his death.

Li Hu was born in Dazhu, Sichuan Province in 1919. In 1942, he was admitted to the Art Department of Central University, which moved from Nanjing to Chongqing, and was selected by Xu Beihong as the key training object for the integration of China and the West together with Zong Qixiang. As a student of Xu Beihong, Li Hu inherited Xu Beihong's basic ideas, one is to use sketching as the basis of modeling, and the other is to attach importance to the creation of the teacher's method in order to create a modern Chinese figure painting style. If it is said that on the road of realist figure painting that integrates Western painting, Xu Beihong and Jiang Zhaohe created the first peak in the thirties and forties, and Li Hu mainly created the second peak together with a group of other figure painters in the fifties and sixties, and is one of the representative painters of the second peak.

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