There are different opinions on Tang Li.
From the perspective of artistic language, Tang Li's simple flowers and birds are similar to the Bada, but not the Bada. The Bada Mountain people are simple, clear, empty and majestic, showing the lonely and lonely mentality of the ascetic monk. Tang Li's simple, quiet, empty and elegant paintings are filled with an inner and lively spiritual leap. "Minimalism" is coordinated with "exaggeration", "suggestion" is accompanied by "symbol", and modern composition consciousness and spiritual tension are used to penetrate the time tunnel of ancient and modern times, in order to maximize the picture space and make a large article. His brushstrokes are vertical and horizontal, and his ink is dripping and smooth, like dancing, splashing, madness, and drunkenness, which is rare among his predecessors. The picture creates a strong sense of excitement and emotion, and the scrolling is astonishing.
Sun Meilan (Professor of the Department of Art History and Theory, Central Academy of Fine Arts)
Mr. Tang Li’s flowers, vines, birds, and symbolic symbols are all very distinctive and artistically interesting. His works are highly expressive, retaining the calligraphic style of Wu Changshuo's art, and absorbing the Tianqu Road pioneered by Qi Baishi. His works pursue simplicity and conciseness, are very expressive and vivid, and I like them very much. People have been paying attention to the development of freehand ink painting, especially freehand flowers and birds, but there are few people who are good at it. It is not easy to break away from the tradition. It is very difficult. Many painters are exploring it. Everyone feels that it is time for a good freehand flower and bird painter to appear. Mr. Tang Li is a promising middle-aged painter. I congratulate him.
Feng Yuan (Vice Chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Artist)
Shang Hui (Executive Editor of Art Magazine, Critic)
Mr. Tang Li is one of the few who can A middle-aged painter who stands out in the field of freehand painting, with skill and talent. He inherited a wide range of traditions, and the artistic characteristics of Qingteng, Baiyang, Bada and Shiraishi all became factors in his creation. His paintings express a kind of free interest in simplicity, which is clear and distant, very smart, very harmonious, and also very subtle and brilliant. I think Mr. Tang Li is a very noteworthy painter in today's freehand flower-and-bird painting world and is very promising to achieve great achievements. I believe that if he combines the strengths of various schools to form his own language and purifies it more, he will definitely give us a greater shock.
Mr. Tang Li, it would be better to have a comparison. Compared to whom? How to compare? Compared with the late two recognized masters of freehand painting of flowers and birds: Mr. Pan Tianshou and Mr. Li Kuchan, and even compared with his father, Mr. Tang Wenxuan, the only remaining master of traditional Chinese painting. The achievements of these three masters are universally recognized, and their works are powerful and elegant: Mr. Pan Tianshou's power lies in his rigorous management and sophisticated brushwork; Mr. Li Kuchan's power lies in his precise brushwork and dripping ink; The strength of Mr. Tang Wenxuan lies in his thick pen and deep ink, which combines both form and spirit. But all three masters have their own weaknesses. Mr. Pan Tianshou's weakness lies in his thin use of ink and lack of natural interest; Mr. Li Kuchan's weakness lies in his insufficient operating position and imbalance of form and spirit, resulting in a large gap between the fineness and roughness of his works; Mr. Tang Wenxuan's weakness lies in his overly precise intention in painting. Therefore, the freedom of expression is slightly insufficient.
It can be considered that the weaknesses of the three masters mentioned above have not only been avoided in Tang Li's works, but have become the advantages of his works: dripping ink and natural interest; appropriate location, form and spirit. Harmonious; heroic, free and unrestrained.
As long as Mr. Tang Li does not rest on his laurels, and combines the strengths of the above three masters in the future, let alone those who hold the flag, I think Chinese freehand flower and bird painting today The master must be none other than him.
Li Ming (famous philosopher and esthetician)
Tang Li's freehand paintings of flowers and birds are extremely free and wild, among which "Jackdaw" and "Plain Makeup" in the collection are the best. It seems that the writing is wild and chaotic, but it is both spiritual and physical; it is extremely wild and fast, but it is meticulous, almost to the point of being rigorous in every stroke. Bada Shanren can be said to be a model of it.
He Huaishuo (Professor of Taiwan Normal University, painter, critic)
The freehand art is a highly condensed expression of the painter's talent, spirituality, talent, skill, education, experience and mind.
Mr. Tang Li was born in an artistic family and has the dual advantages of a good family education and an academic education. Under the background of my country's reform and opening up, he has a broad vision and keeps pace with the times; he has established his spirit in the fierce collision between Eastern and Western cultures and deeply embraced the national tradition; he has gone through ups and downs, persevered and worked hard, and finally made his painting genius possible. With the emanation, his artistic ambition can be fully displayed, making him one of the few leaders in today's freehand flower-and-bird painting world. As a master of contemporary freehand flower and bird painting, Mr. Tang Li's works are full of emotion, majestic, ethereal and simple, and elegant in style.
Gao Hailei (Director of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture, Vice Chairman of Jiangxi Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles)
My first impression of Mr. Tangli’s works is that they are natural. Naturalness is the high realm of art and great beauty. Zhuangzi said: "Tao follows nature, and doing nothing is beautiful." Mr. Tang Li's works have an open brushstroke, majestic and majestic without being overbearing; the color layout is fresh and elegant without being ambiguous; the picture is concise, the realm is spacious, every flower, every grass, every bird and every stone is all based on the object to see the ambition. Soul captures, random occurrence, everything and I are one. As the saying goes: the soul comes out of everything, and nature is free from ornaments. These are all the styles of a great artist. Mr. Tang Li's works are so impressive and his future is limitless.
Mr. Tang Wenxuan, the respected person of Mr. Tang Li, is a master in the history of contemporary art. His pen and ink are deep and simple, and he pioneered a generation of painting style. Mr. Tang Li was educated in a famous family, with a long history of family education and learned from many others' strengths, creating a style of his own. To engage in art one must have talent. A son who inherits his father's business without talent will spend his whole life just being a painter. In the history of art, fathers and sons share the same glory, and it is not uncommon for the bell chime to be the most popular. Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi of the Jin Dynasty; Li Sixun and Li Zhaodao of the Tang Dynasty; Ma Yuan and Ma Lin of the Song Dynasty; Mi Fu and Mi Youren and their sons, etc. are only a few. That’s all.
Zhang Zhimin (Dean of Shandong Art Institute, Vice Chairman of Shandong Federation of Literary and Art Circles)
Mr. Tang Li’s works are very wonderful. He absorbed some nutrients from Mr. Tang Wenxuan, but he also Has a very strong personal aspect. His paintings also absorbed many things from Shiraishi and Bada, especially the simplicity of Bada Shanren. He has very good pen and ink skills, and his skills are beyond his years. Among contemporary Chinese painters, Tang Li's artistic achievements should be said to be quite outstanding.
Song Yulin (Chairman of Jiangsu Provincial Artists Association, President of Jiangsu Provincial Traditional Chinese Painting Academy)
Tang Li’s strong prominence in the field of freehand flower-and-bird painting is of great significance that cannot be ignored. His freehand paintings of flowers and birds not only have profound traditional origins, but also allow him to re-examine and reflect on Bada Shanren, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and other previous masters from the perspective of a modern cultural man with a global perspective. His creation can be seen as a practice and sublimation of inheriting tradition. His success has injected new vitality into the declining freehand flower and bird painting world today, making us full of confidence in the prospects of Chinese painting. He will undoubtedly become an important painter in the 21st century who will continue the splendid history of freehand flower-and-bird painting represented by Bada Shanren and Qi Baishi.
Shi Yanping (Jiangsu Province Art Critic)
Those who secretly think of themselves as masters, since the rise of freehand brushwork in the field of Chinese painting, no one but a freehand brushwork painter can be called a master. Therefore, the spirit of Chinese painting lies in writing, subjectivity, lyricism, and freehand brushwork, rather than depiction, schema, objectivity, and intellectuality. It is the first meaning of freehand painting to show the true face of the painter directly, concisely and fully through writing brushwork. Drawing the posture of objects through abstraction, abandoning form and pleasing shadow, exaggerating and deforming, and minimalism is the second meaning of freehand painting. By manipulating the position, dividing black and white, and vertical and horizontal gathering and dispersion, a tense plane space is constructed, which is the third meaning of freehand painting. The ultimate meaning of freehand painting is to express the artist's talent and cultivation through the combination of poetry, calligraphy, seal cutting and painting. With these four meanings, only those who have great freehand brushwork can show their courage, knowledge, strength, emotion, and learning. If they are not prepared for the six virtues, they will be unable to deal with it.
There are no great masters of freehand brushwork who can summarize these four meanings and possess these six virtues.
Tang Li, the master of Xiantang, is the philosophical heir of Mr. Tang Wenxuan, the great flower and bird painter. He studied painting at an early age and received court training at a young age. His preparation was tempered, but he could not hide his talent in the end, so he was freehand at this time. When the spiritual painting world faded away, it suddenly became independent and prosperous beside Chu Ze. His paintings trace directly back to Ivy and Bada, Suo Lao and Bai Shi at the top, and catch up with all the sages of the world at the bottom. They use free and unrestrained brushwork, calm, thick, simple and lush ink, a vigorous and vigorous spirit, and simple and concise images. , the pattern of great opening and great closing, the ability to release and close the means, the uprightness and straightness, the meaning of coquettishness, the majestic undressing, and the ambition not to fall into the sky. His brush strokes are floating, the ink flow is dripping, the hair is random, and his wrist has good fortune. Whether it is the nobleness of the lotus, the strength of the pine, the beauty of the plum, the thinness of the bamboo, the gracefulness of the peony, the gracefulness of the orchid, the solitary egret, the calmness of the magpie, or the calmness of the chicken. Gu Pan, the liveliness and agility of the starling, the unrestrained eight extremes of the goshawk, are all written down one by one, and they are as dancing as splashing, as drunk as crazy, with the power of the sky, the spirit of standing on the ground, the pen is full of ink, and the things are for me. First, it can be said that everything is prepared for me, and the style of a gentleman is slowly coming.
In the spring of Guisi, Tang Lichen painted at the Phoenix Ridge Art Museum, forerunner of "Feng Ming in the Ridge", adding several words to express his admiration.
Wang Luxiang (President of Beijing Fenghuangling Academy, "Great Freehand Painting, a Good Method—Guan Tang Standing Flower and Bird Painting")