On the morning of April 28th, "Viewing the Tao and Wandering the Heart - Li Gang Chinese Painting Art Exhibition" was officially opened at the Keyuan Museum in Dongguan City.
The exhibition is guided by the Propaganda Department of the Dongguan Municipal Party Committee, sponsored by the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Tourism and Sports, undertaken by the Keyuan Museum, co-organized by the Dongguan Cantonese Opera Development Center, the Municipal Artists Association, and the Municipal Calligraphers Association, and is supported by the Academy of Literature and Art of the Chinese Academy of Arts and the Chinese Painting Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association.
"Viewing the Tao and Wandering the Heart - Li Gang Chinese Painting Art Exhibition" will be on display in the comprehensive exhibition hall of Keyuan Museum until June 1. In mid-May this year, Mr. Li Gang will also hold a lecture on the theme of Chinese painting art, so that the audience can better understand the connotation of traditional Chinese art and more deeply appreciate the charm of traditional Chinese art.
Born in Heilongjiang in 1960, Li Gang is a painter of the Institute of Literary and Artistic Creation of the Chinese Academy of Arts, a national first-class artist, and a member of the Chinese Artists Association. His main creative and research directions are freehand figure painting, landscape painting, abstract ink painting, porcelain painting, etc. Mr. Li Gang has held solo exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China, the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the Chinese Academy of Arts, Rong Bao Zhai, Prince Gong's Mansion, Peking University, Jingdezhen Art Museum, Jilin University of the Arts, etc., and published many books, and his works have been collected by many institutions at home and abroad.
This year, Dongguan will strive to create the IP of "Keyuan Lingnan School of Painting", and give full play to the cultural radiation role of Keyuan Lingnan School of Painting. Keyuan is known as a famous garden and elegant collection of cultural traditions, gathering top domestic artists with Hanmo elegance, and inheriting the artistic spirit of inclusiveness, reform and innovation of the Lingnan School of painting. Li Gang's innovative spirit and unique brushwork based on tradition coincide with the artistic ideas of the Lingnan School of painting, which was born in Keyuan. Keyuan Museum strengthened its cooperation with Mr. Li Gang and launched the "Observation of the Tao and the Heart-Li Gang Chinese Painting Art Exhibition", which exhibited more than 80 pieces of Mr. Li Gang's freehand landscape paintings, theatrical character paintings, dramatic porcelain vases, opera ceramics and blue and white porcelain, bringing together the essence of his creations in recent years.
Li Gang's freehand landscape paintings have a unique charm, with a breeze on the face, and the simple pictures express his true nature. His theatrical works capture the themes of opera, the personalities of the characters, and the moments of dramatic conflicts, and give the expressions, figures, and singing tones of the opera characters to the pen and ink, which are vivid and vivid.
Li Gang also pays attention to cross-border creation and devotes himself to the art of porcelain painting, which is not only based on his strong ink painting skills, but also reflects his mastery of the use of porcelain painting tools and the firing process and his commendable ability to plan and layout.
This exhibition exhibits Mr. Li Gang's new opera pottery work, which has a unique shape, which is suspected of being "letter pen graffiti", which is actually "carried away" and expansive, integrating the form and spirit of opera.
The exhibition is simple and elegant, with four parts: "I See the Green Mountains - Freehand Landscape Series", "Ink Drama - Opera Characters Series", "Porcelain on Danqing - Porcelain Painting and Pottery Series" and "Wenxin Casting Rhyme - Art Treatise".
Reporter Shi Mengzhuo Correspondent Guan Wenxuan