Autumn and Winter Check-in Challenge Li Kuchan (1899 1983) was formerly known as Li Yingjie and Li Ying, and his characters were super.
3. Li Gong, the current master of flower and bird painting, a native of Shandong Gaotang.
Li Kuchan's works are mostly based on flowers, grass insects, birds, and animals, and he also occasionally paints landscapes and figuresHe is good at freehand flowers and birds, especially love lotus herons, pine eagles, re-sketches, the world of flowers and birds in his pen is thick and plain and wonderful, and Pan Tianshou is equally famous and praised as "South Pan and North Li" by the painting world.
The eagle is a bird of prey, vigorous and strong, it often appears in the works of Mr. Li Kuchan, and is famous as a heavyweight subject. The person who paints the freehand eagle is none other than Li Kuchan, a famous contemporary master of flower and bird painting. The eagle painted by Mr. Li Kuchan is extremely moving.
Li Kuchan believes that painting an eagle is not a simple imitation, but a process of re-creation, and that art works originate from life but should be higher than life. After years of exploration and refinement, the characteristic elements of various big eagles are abstractly refined and comprehensively artistically processed. The eagle he painted is vigorous and majestic. At the same time, he combined the characteristics of several fierce birds such as eagles, eagles, and eagles to create the image of a typical eagle in the style of a master.
The eagles in Mr. Kuzen's pen are all eye-catching and heroic. There are three main enhancement points, namely: eagle eyes, eagle beaks, and eagle claws.
The most prominent thing about his eagle is that the eagle's eyes are squared and rarely colored, which highlights the eagle's fierceness and ferocity, which is convenient to express the cohesion of its eyes and the power of its majestic gaze. Bada Shanren, Qi Baishi, and Xu Beihong painted eagles, and their eyes were still round, while Li Kuchan turned the circle into a square and increased the proportion of eagle eyes, which was his originality.
Li Kuchan was even more vigorous in outlining the eagle's beak. He painted the eagle's beak in the shape of a square, pointed knife, with strokes that had to be both axe-like and wire-elastic.
In addition, his eagle talons are also unique. He not only pays great attention to the perspective and structure of the eagle talon, but also places great emphasis on the brushwork of the outline, rhythm and virtual reality, so as to strengthen the strength and flexibility of the eagle's talon, and better highlight the eagle's alertness, sensitivity, vigor and pride.
From the point of view of personality, for the shaping of each eagle, although the use of the pen and modeling means are basically the same, but there is no sense of similarity, although the posture of the eagle is different, but there is a dignified spirit of not angry and self-authority. This kind of expression shows a harmonious charm while showing a strong visual impact.
When Li Kuchan painted eagles, the ink used was relatively large, dripping and hearty, heavy and powerful. He once said: "As long as the brush and ink effect is good and the image is not accurate enough, it is not a big mistake." Therefore, the eagle shape in his pen has a three-dimensional effect, and the brush and ink are vivid and rich in texture. This is the dialectical relationship between the "unrestrained" and "subtle" of the so-called freehand flower and bird painting.