The most collectible painter - Liu Shaoshi/the leader of the Beijing School of grass and insect painting

Liu Shaoshi, a powerful artist, is an excellent aesthetic education worker. President of Beijing Modern Ink Painting Academy, painter of Beijing Shiqi Painting Academy, member of Hebei North American Association, external professor of Hebei Normal Academy, president of Yangzhou Chongcai Landscape Painting Institute, painter of Foshan Zen Figure Painting Institute, and consultant of Ningxia Collection Association.

Insects are often depicted by Chinese painters, and most of the common insects live in grass, so painters are also accustomed to calling them grass insects. However, looking at the ancient and modern flower and bird paintings in the mainland, there are not many painters who specialize in painting grass insects after all, after Qi Baishi and Wang Xuetao, there is another talent who is famous for painting grass insects, he is the painter Liu Shaoshi, who is widely recommended as the leader of the Beijing school of grass and insect painting.

Liu Shaoshi lived in rural Hebei when he was a child, and he had the simplicity and kindness unique to the peasant family. In his eyes, the spiritual grass insect has no right or wrong, ugly, and only the joy of life. The grass insects in Shaoshi's pen are dignified and handsome, colorful and gorgeous, both the neatness and meticulousness of Qi Baishi grass insects, and the free and flexible movement of Wang Xuetao grass insects, which have high academic and artistic value, so the grass insects painted by Shaoshi are also called "Liu's grass insects" in the industry, and there is a saying that "there is Qi Baishi in ancient times, and there is Liu Shaoshi today".

Shaoshi's grass insects have a wide range, such as grasshoppers, praying mantises, dragonflies, cicadas, grasshoppers, etc., all painted and omnipotent. For today's painters, it is not difficult to paint what is like, but it is difficult to paint grass insects in both form and spirit, lifelike, and interesting, so the grass insect paintings of Shaoshi can be included in the list of wonderful products.

Shaoshi's works play a good role in the color of brush and ink, the grass and insect shapes in the paintings are vivid and expressive, the brushwork is active, the colors are rich, and the thick talk is in place, giving full play to the expressiveness and impact of traditional Chinese brush and ink, which is unique compared with the works of other painters.

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