Mr. Li Keran is an outstanding landscape painter in modern times, and he also paints cattle very well.
He painted diligently all his life, but he was very strict with himself and did not allow defective products to be passed on to the world. Someone once counted that Li Keran made no more than 3,000 paintings in his lifetime, but there are tens of thousands of paintings that have been circulated in the world.
There are also 3,000 waste paintings, and Mrs. Li said that the family has used waste paper as toilet paper for decades.
Searching for "Li Keran" on the Internet, there are many paintings, most of which are imitations. Even many of the paintings that participated in the auction were not optimistic.
The real handwriting is profound, and it is very human. The imitation pen and ink are weak, and there is no Li spirit, so it is not difficult to distinguish.
Authentic:
Imitation analysis
Weak with a pen, with a flat ink.
With a thin pen, with a flat plate of ink.
The willow branches are weak, and the water waves are dead.
The lines are weak, and the ink is not lawful.
The lines are rigid and the shape is inappropriate. The distant mountains violate the law of near big and far small.
There are many boat paintings. Trees and houses are drawn on the line drawing board. Yuanshan's pen does not conform to Li Keran's style.
The trees and houses are obscene and stingy.
The plum blossoms are not on the right branches, and the lines are weak.
The use of lines is rigid, and the pen and ink lack unity and coordination.
Although it is a splash of ink method, it is tinkered with with a pen and is not atmospheric.
Tree stone stingy. The outline lines of the mountain form a direction, rigid and unchanged.
The pen and ink are stingy and have no boundary.
The shape of the cow is poor.
On the right is dead ink, useless pen changes.
The lines are weak and stiff, and the trees, stones, and flowing water are all painted to death.
The dotted line is weak and airless. According to the layout of the Li family's landscape, the place where the waterfall should be painted is omitted.
Tree stone with a pen rigid.
The waterfall on the left is not flowing in the right direction. The two waterfalls on the right have no source.
Weak pen and ink skills. There are no bones in the mountain graphite, the branches have no strength, and the leaves are messy.
The house is rigid and airless. The nearby mountain stone painting is paste, and the whole painting lacks bone strength.
Rigid lines.
The house is painted dead. The peaks have ink but no pen.