Li Yuxi, the name Yunjian, the master of Chunting, was born in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province in 1944. He is a famous contemporary Chinese painter, educator, and doctor of fine arts. Vice President of Heilongjiang Painting and Calligraphy Academy, Vice Chairman of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Association, and one of the main representatives of the Kwantung School.
Mr. Li Yuxi went sketching with his friends.
Mr. Lee Yuki is an important Tohoku artist and one of the representatives of the Kanto School. His figure paintings pay attention to the expression of lines and ink in visual composition, and pursue flexible artistic effects. At the same time, he also absorbed the characteristics of Western art modeling and applied color to his works to enhance the expressiveness. His works strive to restore objects to the spiritual vision of the vast sky and thick soil of western China, and in this way, the works are full of life intuition and energy, and condensed in the art space. His works maintain a unique contemporary ink painting style, showing his unique artistic temperament.
Li Yuxi is a painter with a special passion for ink figure painting, and his practice is influenced by his many years of living in the Northeast region. He was born in Heilongjiang Province and now has roots in the Greater Northeast region, where his unique painting philosophy and aesthetic style have been nurtured by this geographical environment and humanistic feelings.
Heilongjiang is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, and figure painting has taken root and developed in this black land since the pre-Qin period. Traditional Chinese aesthetics have always focused on the issue of form and spirit in painting, and figure painting is especially so. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Guan Zi put forward the view that "the life of mortals is also the essence of heaven and the shape of the earth, and it is human", which is the source of the "metatheism" of Chinese painting.
Works by Mr. Li Yuxi.
Zhuangzi expounded on the "form and spirit" and said: "The spirit is born from the Tao, the form is born from the essence, and all things are born from the form." The meaning of this sentence is that the human form and the god are unified, and are composed of "essence", that is, the Tao, which has become a guide for the creation of ancient figure paintings, and there are still many painters who pursue "both form and spirit".
However, the highest level of figure painting is the "interaction between form and spirit", and the development of modern figure painting has moved in this direction, and Li Yuxi is one of the painters in this field. His series of Tibetan figure paintings have long gone beyond the pursuit of "form", and also surpassed the mature figure painting theory of "both form and spirit", and moved towards a new stage of "interaction between form and spirit".
In addition to using calligraphic lines to outline the outlines of Mr. Li Yuxi's works, he also uses large chunks of thick ink to splash and use the edges of the ink to outline the natural lines of the characters' clothes. This kind of one-time brush-and-ink figure painting requires a very high skill of the painter.
Li Yuxi has been taught by the famous painter Zhao Wangyun and other famous teachers in China, and his years of tempering and spiritual tempering have forged his resolute personal character. Therefore, he constantly tries to use the calligraphy pen that is good at lyrical writing as the benchmark for the lines of the figures, rather than simply and rigidly copying and drawing, so that his works have a unique personality and ink style.
The above five works have been collected by Singaporean buyers**.