Li Baochun's profile: A famous painter, a native of Ningjin, Shandong, now living in Beihai and Weihai. She was once inspired by the art of Li Shuxuan, a famous female painter in Beijing. He studied under the famous flower and bird artists Ma Shunxian and Zhai Junfeng, and the famous landscape artists Liu Huaiyong, Shi Yunxiang and Jia Zhifa. He is a member of the Shandong Artists Association and a director of the Shandong Branch of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association. He has participated in national, provincial and municipal art exhibitions for many times, and his works have been published in China Art Newspaper and other newspapers. It has been included in the compilation of many classics such as the Complete Book of Shandong Art and the National Collection of Famous Calligraphers and Painters. Published "Li Baochun's Collected Works").
Among my many painting friends, Li Baochun, a native of Shandong, is particularly eye-catching in his paintings of flowers and birds: the novel language of brush and ink and the rich ideological connotations leave a deep impression on people. She is one of the few female painters in today's painting world, and she has won a place in the calligraphy and painting circle by virtue of her excellent skills to create highly personalized painting skills.
Li Baochun's paintings of flowers and birds give people a very atmospheric, simple and natural feeling. It is rare for a painting to be unpretentious and to reveal its true feelings. Especially after viewing several of her large-scale works, the shock is self-evident, you see how exquisite her layout is, the whole painting is dense and orderly, not dominating, but also full of fun, so that the audience can feel the endless beauty of nature in the movement and stillness.
chatting with Li Baochun, I feel that her literary and artistic literacy is extremely high. She has loved reading and painting since she was a child, and has been engaged in propaganda and cultural work since joining the work, studying calligraphy and painting in her spare time. Later, she went to Shandong Institute of Arts and Crafts and Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts to study flower and bird painting. There I was like a fish in water, and systematically learned the theoretical knowledge and painting skills of Chinese painting. From the Song Dynasty flower and bird sketches to the Ming Dynasty Xu Wei freehand flowers and birds, and then to the Bada, Hao Changshuo, Qi Baishi all the way to a clear vein, she day and night to follow the ancient masterpieces, skills by leaps and bounds, artistic horizons, this period created a lot of masterpieces, participated in a number of national competitions, was reported by many local news, and the works were also included in the "Shandong Art Encyclopedia".
The bumper harvest of artistic achievements made Li Baochun's reputation famous, and also attracted the attention of local leaders, who stepped back from the position of director of the archives bureau and was hired as the chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He presided over the overall work of the local federation of literary and artistic circles. Insider, leading insider, she has always been rigorous and conscientious, with her keen political awareness, unique artistic vision and mind, the local literary and artistic level has reached a new level.
After retiring, Li Baochun has plenty of leisure time, coupled with the strong support and encouragement of his family, and he has become more diligent in learning to paint. She successively participated in Ma Shunxian's modern flower and bird painting seminar and Zhai Junfeng's online flower and bird painting workshop. In order to more intuitively and subtly depict flowers, rare birds and animals, she went south to Beihai, Hainan and the beautiful Xishuangbanna many times to sketch, her footprints are all over the jungle cottages, mountains and wilderness, looking at the strange flowers and grasses, feather feathers, she lingered and forgot to return, a stay is half a month and 20 days, once became a frequent visitor there.
In this way, after years of tempering, Li Baochun at this time has mastered the mystery of Chinese flower and bird painting, experienced the core of the "feeling" of Chinese flower and bird painting, and also figured out the artistic posture of Xu Wei, Bada Shanren, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi and other famous artists of the past dynasties. She began to experiment with new language symbols in her works, and she wanted to get rid of the inherent brush-and-ink format, and focus on the composition of a flower, a leaf, a bird, and a grass in her works into the composition of visual expression, so as to meet the aesthetic taste of modern people. The hard work pays off, and her works are quietly changing towards a higher and farther artistic realm.
In recent years, Li Baochun has become interested in landscape painting after making great achievements in the creation of flower and bird paintings. She knew the truth of "interlacing and separating mountains", and resolutely participated in the studio study of Liu Huaiyong, Shi Yunxiang, and Jia Zhifa. With her superb artistic sense and pen and ink skills in her previous flower and bird paintings, her landscape painting creation is also a rapid progress and cannot be underestimated. At a recent invitational exhibition of landscape paintings, I was fortunate to see her painting "Ancient Tea of the Sea Silk Road", with green bamboos and gurgling streams at the bottom of the picture. In the middle is an endless tea plantation, with a gentle breeze, and the graceful tea lady wears a hat on her head and carries a bamboo basket on her back, singing happily while picking tea skillfully. Further up are turquoise green hills. The upper part is the vast sea that reflects the scenery of the Beibu Gulf, the waves on the sea are monstrous, and the tea ship is stubbornly heading towards the destination. All the way to the top of the picture, there is a beautiful calligraphy text, which not only records the story of the ancient tea Silk Road, but also complements the complete unity of the work. From a distance, the whole work is fresh in style and novel in concept, and its fine brushwork, exquisite composition, and accurate expression of the theme are really masterpieces.
December 26, 2023 in Beihai Caomuxuan.
Chang Yingjie, pen name Xinzhang, is a contemporary critic and painter. His literary works have been scattered in "Qinghai Lake" magazine, "Yan Zhao *** Yan Zhao Evening News", "Hengshui**", and has published many articles in "China Calligraphy News", "China Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper", "Calligraphy Guide", etc. He is a member of Hebei Literature and Art Critics Association. ）