Xiao Lang paints lotus: express his feelings with pen and ink, and show the charm of lotus flowers

Xiao Lang (1917-2010), known as Yin Lang, also signed as the owner of Pingxiang Pavilion, was a native of Beijing, and was an outstanding Chinese art educator and Chinese painter. He specializes in flower and bird painting, landscape painting and calligraphy, and his works have a unique style and far-reaching artistic conception, and have high artistic value and cultural connotation. Xiao Lang's freehand flower and bird paintings, with their unique style and exquisite skills, have been widely recognized and have become a brilliant wonder in the Chinese painting world.

Xiao Lang has created many works with lotus flowers as the theme in his life, and these works not only eulogize the personality of lotus flowers and show the delicate beauty of lotus flowers, but also make great efforts in the creation of artistic conception of the picture, the capture of taste, and the use of various different expression techniques.

In traditional Chinese aesthetics, literati and painters loved lotus flowers, not only because of their graceful posture and elegant colors, but also because of their integrity and quality of "getting out of the sludge without staining, turbidity and clear ripples without demons". As a modern Chinese painter of flowers and birds, Xiao Lang was also deeply influenced by this aesthetic concept, and used lotus flowers as an object to depict lyricism, creating many works on lotus themes.

Xiao Lang's flower and bird paintings mostly belong to the small freehand painting method, the artistic language is refined and natural, the image is concise and vivid, the style is delicate and elegant, the color is rich and changeable, light but not thin, clean and bright. He pays attention to the calligraphy taste of pen and ink and the atmosphere of books, and is good at constructing poetic spiritual realms and images, emphasizing the principle of harmony and harmony, and integrating quiet observation and active life into beautiful works of art.

Xiao Lang uses a variety of expressive techniques when creating works on the theme of lotus flowers. He is good at capturing the various postures and charms of lotus flowers, and expresses the delicate beauty and temperament of lotus flowers vividly and vividly through delicate brushstrokes and smart ink colors. At the same time, he is also good at combining lotus flowers with other elements (such as kingfishers, goldfish, dragonflies, etc.) to form a picture full of interest and artistic conception.

Xiao Lang's lotus-themed works not only show the natural beauty of lotus flowers, but also contain the painter's sincere emotions. He expresses his love for life and his awe for nature through lotus flowers, which makes his works have profound connotation and appeal.

Xiao Lang has many works on the theme of lotus flowers, some of which are representative works such as "Lotus Kingfisher", "Lotus Mandarin Duck", "Lotus Goldfish", etc., all show his unique artistic style and exquisite skills. These works are not only well-known in the Chinese art world, but also loved by collectors and enthusiasts at home and abroad.

Xiao Lang is known as "the leader of Chinese freehand flower and bird painting", and his works with lotus themes have an important position and influence in the Chinese painting world. Through the traditional theme of lotus, he showed the charm of traditional Chinese culture and the innovation of modern aesthetic concepts, and made outstanding contributions to the development and inheritance of Chinese painting.