Who is Li Geng?
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Li Geng was born in Beijing in 1950. In 1986, he gave a lecture on oriental art at the Faculty of Art of the Technical University of Minsk, Germany. Since 1986, he has been a professor of art at the Academic Department of Kyoto University of Plastic Arts, Japan. He is currently the executive dean of Li Kejian Painting Institute, an academic member of Li Kejian Art Foundation, a researcher of the National Academy of Painting of China, and a professor and researcher of Kyoto University of Plastic Arts in Japan.
Li Geng loved classical Chinese literature and art since childhood, became more obsessed with painting, adhered to the teachings of his father Li Kejian, studied ink painting, achieved fruitful results, and became increasingly famous in the world. Wang Luxiang, a professor at Tsinghua University, said that "his blood is flowing with the precious qualities of his father, Mr. Li Keyan, who is leisurely fascinated by the mysterious and sublime cosmic spirit." There is a sense of natural divinity that comes from the spirit house... The landscape is wordlessly beautiful. The Xuanhua Hongmeng of the ink language, in his opinion, is the rhythm of the Tao through the heavens and the earth, and what he does is to 'harmonize it' and let the qi rhyme come from the end of the pen... His paintings are indifferent, his emotions are flooded, and the atmosphere is like that of his father and more indulgent."
Li Keyan and Li Geng are sketching
Lee Ke-yan and Lee Geng in Arashiyama, Japan
Li Geng was personally taught by Li Keyan, and the second generation of "Li Family Landscape" is truly deserved.
Li Geng, who was born into a famous family, has shown extraordinary artistic talent since childhood, and since the age of 3, his father Li Keyan has taught painting by hand, observed, and studied the painting techniques of dyeable landscape painting, and is one of the artistic masters in the contemporary painting world who has really been personally guided by Li Keyan. Li Geng once copied a work by Li Kejian, because the level of copying is extremely high, Mr. Li Kejian, in order to prevent misunderstanding in the future, specially inscribed on this painting to explain: "This little child Li Geng's old works are slightly similar, and can be dyed." "
The State Council raised funds to build China's first master painting academy--- Li Kedian Painting Academy, and appointed Li Geng as the executive president.
The Li Kedian Painting Academy, which was funded by the State Council, is a state-level painting academy registered and filed by the competent department of the Ministry of Culture, a top international art institution, and one of the five major art masters in modern and modern China. Li Geng, as the son of Li Kejian and the second generation of Li Kejian art, was hand-picked to become the dean, and the directors of Li Kejian Painting Academy gathered Li Kejian's disciples Fan Zeng, Liu Dawei, Jin Shangyi, Shen Peng and other contemporary top art masters, if Li Geng is not the best inheritor of dyeable art, he cannot be elected as the president of Li Kejian Painting Academy!
Mr. Huang Yongyu once said in the "Dayabao Hutong A No. 2 Requiem Sacrifice": Li Geng, "This Li Family's Thousand Mile Colt also!" ”
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Li Geng has held hundreds of solo exhibitions around the world and has been personally awarded the Cyanotic Medal by the Prime Minister of Japan
In 1993, Li Geng was awarded the Cyano Medal by Prime Minister Miyazawa for his contributions to cultural undertakings, and was awarded the Cultural Merit of Kakogawa City, Japan. As the second generation successor of Lijia Landscape, since the 1980s, Li Geng has successfully held personal exhibitions or Lijia Landscape Exhibitions in dozens of countries and regions such as Britain, Italy, Germany, France, Russia and so on, which has caused a sensation in the world art world and has been highly courteous by the core circle of global culture and art.
The Li Geng calligraphy and painting auction held in Japan, with a total turnover of 18 million yuan.
At present, Li Geng's single work has exceeded the 500 square mark, in 2011, the Li Geng calligraphy and painting auction held in Osaka, Japan, the total turnover reached 18 million yuan (RMB), the turnover rate was as high as 99%, causing a huge sensation in the collection industry, praised by the industry as Xiao Li Ke dyeing, the future is very likely to become another painting giant after his father!
In the early 1980s, Li Geng, at the recommendation of the Japanese literary hero Mr. Yasushi Inoue, entered the University of Fine Arts to engage in teaching and research work at the Famous Japanese Philosopher Mr. Umehara, and was entrusted with the reconstruction of the university ink painting course that had been abolished due to the influence of the Meiji Restoration's "theory of breaking away from Asia and entering Europe", becoming one of the only foreign instructors in the teaching and research department of the Department of Japanese Painting in the 1980s, and was considered to be one of the newcomers of Umehara, the third school of school in Kyoto, Japan.
Li Geng has introduced the "Ink Painting Research Credit System" in two art universities in Japan, and participated in the promotion of a series of "research" and "forward-leaning" art research activities in Japan. His classical techniques and material expressions, as well as ink research, are the most supported and popular among young students, including the Department of Japanese Painting, the Department of Oil Painting, the Department of Architecture, the Department of Three-Dimensional Modeling, the Department of Ceramics, the Department of Dyeing and Weaving, and the Department of Video. After more than ten years of intensive research in former West Germany and Japan, Li Geng finally created new overseas ink teaching methods such as abstract and conceptual "material + performance" and "starting from scratch". Today, Li Geng's art has become its own system, and has been called "Landscape of Mind" (1982-1985), "Neoclassicism" (1985-1989), and "Dyeing Media + Hemp Herb Support body" research series by the Japanese art community.
Li Geng is a scholar-type artist with romantic feelings, profound artistic accomplishment enables him to gallop across the ink, dare to explore, constantly seek truth, skillfully combine the East and the West, classical and modern, and his ink weather is varied, with infinite meaning and long-distance realm. Li Geng has a profound study of the spatial relationship and classical art techniques of landscape painting in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and his research on ink elephants has also achieved outstanding results, and his ink expression methods are mainly ink accumulation method and boneless method. Li Geng's early works tended to be lyrical in realism; romantic in expressionism and abstraction in the middle period; classical transcendental in the later period; and more recently, Chenghuai, known as "poets of transparent ink painting" and "callers of ink".
Li Geng's colleague, a recipient of the Medal of Japanese Culture, Director of the National Museum of Art in Kyoto, Hebei, said: "What impresses me is his incredible painting talent even if he is a person, and he is not satisfied with the spirit of enthusiasm for knowledge. He has a high talent. But the world is explored in plain clothes. Almost with an ascetic attitude, according to the method of the painters of the Eastern ancestors, 'walk thousands of miles and read thousands of books'. At present, Li Geng's main representative works are "Hemp + Dyeing + Black" series, "Ink + Performance" series, "Spanish Night", "Italian Bridge", "West German River", "Ancient Capital Three Bridges" series. "Poet" series, "For the great composer Mahler at the end of the century series; Pengcheng Huaigu" and so on. The Japanese modern literary giant Mizumi commented: "Li Geng's paintings give people a shock, the strength of the pen is as compelling as the sound into the environment, the mountains are also moving, the water is also flowing, making people think of the Oriental school, on the small paper is always covered with rocks, lush trees, water gushing out, this is Li Geng's landscape painting, no matter what, small paintings also have the wonderful meaning of space." His paintings lead through paper to the universe. ”
In addition to painting, Li Geng has conducted in-depth research on the development of Japanese and Western painting, copperplate engraving, drawing, mural painting, and early Renaissance art; Zhen's study of Song, Yuan, And Ming painting proposes that literati painting is "conceptual enjoyment". Li Geng's works are avant-garde and contemporary. The painter emphasizes that it is the need of modern society and an important part of modern society. Ai Qing, a titan of China's poetry scene, said in 1987 that Li Geng's works "unfold a poetic world in front of people, hoping to resonate."
In the face of China's rapid development, Li Geng said with deep feeling: "Modernization is not exclusive to the West, and China and Asia are entering a modern society through great efforts. An important part of it is the perceptual enjoyment of abstract thinking and abstraction. Modernization brings the microscopic and macroscopic worlds into our lives today... A new and wonderful world unfolds before your eyes, open your heart, don't reject what you don't know, but feel it, understand it and use it to create a new world. ”
Li Geng at Mahler's former residence
In 2012, li ke dye painting institute was approved by the Ministry of Culture, Li Geng shouldered the responsibility of the executive dean of Li Ke dye painting institute, he believes that Li Ke dye art is Chinese, but also the world, so in the academic research mode to launch a new exploration: "The model of 'painting academy + research institute', the art academy combines the academic research mode of overseas 'university + research institute', which is not only the wish of many experts, but also one of the ways to inherit thousands of years of Chinese culture.