Contemplate everything and enjoy yourself - the impression of the famous landscape painter Professor Lan Like. The interview with Professor Lan Like started from his home in Qingdao University on a Sunday after New Year's Day. This is also the author’s first close encounter with the former director of the Fine Arts Department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Qingdao University. Although the professor is nearly seventy years old, his piercing eyes still have a heroic spirit and are overflowing with the joy brought to him by many years of teaching and painting. As the professor said, "If you don't draw for one day, you will have many problems, if you don't draw for two days, you will go downhill, and if you don't draw for three days, you won't be able to live." Painting is Lan Lik's lifelong hobby, which is confirmed by his paintings: "The landscapes in his pen, the nostalgia and taste, the feeling of dancing in the erratic and difficult to grasp the landscape... This also shows that Professor Lan Lik has a deep love for the landscape. The traditional swallowing and melting of landscapes in Chinese paintings, the rumination and innovation of tradition" (Gan Yiming's "Spicy and bold, green and moist") Stand firm on the stage despite the wind and waves, "With no gain or loss in the chest, the heart is always peaceful, and there are poems and books in the belly." Qi is over." This is a sentence that Professor Lan Like read in Qingdao Daily more than thirty years ago, and he has remembered it clearly over the years. I feel that this is a process of improving and purifying the soul. Near noon, Professor Lan Like, who was in a lively conversation, took us to the "Mountains Are High, Waters Are Long - A Joint Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by Lan Like and four other painters" located in Shandong Road Antique City, organized by Qingdao Jijintang Art Museum. While chatting while watching the exhibition, Professor Lan Like said that he had been engaged in teaching in the past and was committed to cultivating talents. It was only after retirement that I began to participate in some exhibitions. When I was working at the Institute of Textile Engineering in the 1960s, I was engaged in teaching work with Mr. Zhang Peng, a famous painter in our city who was the director of the teaching and research section at that time, and also did specific teaching and research work. Later, Lan Like also taught at the University for the Elderly together with Gao Xiaoyan and Feng Ping, the city's famous calligraphers and painters. Until now, no matter how impetuous people are in society, Professor Lan still devotes more time and energy to teaching and education. People come on. He said with deep emotion that he would like to thank the first person to establish a university for the elderly. The establishment of the university for the elderly has contributed to the construction of a harmonious society. Because many veteran cadres who have retired from leadership positions regard studying calligraphy and painting at senior universities as a good way to express their feelings and pin their future. And they especially enjoyed taking Professor Lan’s class. One year, there was heavy snow and the road was blocked. In order not to delay teaching, Professor Lan actually walked from Shandong Road to the Science and Technology Museum in Zhanqiao. After seeing Professor Lan arriving in the snow, all the veteran students who were packed with seats stood up and applauded. One critic said, "Due to the impact of the commodity economy, today's Chinese painting is a mixed bag of mud and sand, a mixed bag of fish and dragons, which is sighing. However, in today's Chinese painting world, there are still artists with superb talents, elegant words and unique methods. Professor Lan Like from the Academy of Fine Arts of Qingdao University is a landscape painter who inherits tradition and is brave in innovation. "In the interview, Professor Lan's wife said: "Many students said that Professor Lan's painting level is very high and he is one of the famous painters. The handwriting needs to be hyped up. But Lan Like always insists, "I want to let my works speak for myself. I would rather be a master than a famous artist." Therefore, Lan Like, who is familiar with the development direction and operation essentials of the calligraphy and painting market, has always been... It is "Let the wind and waves stand firm on the platform." Walking into the clouds and overlooking the mountains. As one of the 100 most collectible Chinese painters in 2008, Professor Lan Like can be seen from his paintings that he studied the painting styles of Shi Tao and Huang Binhong, and also benefited from the famous landscapes. The teachings of painter Guan Yousheng. Guan Lao Shen Xiong's pen and ink, profound knowledge, open-minded tolerance, and understanding of Shi Tao's proposition that "to paint mountains and rivers, one must be familiar with them" and "search for all the strange peaks to make a draft". Lan Li Ke has embarked on a path of artistic creation that inherits tradition and strives for innovation. His works do not imitate the appearance, but focus on the artistic conception. He also advocates the use of calligraphy in painting. The realm is beautiful and majestic, the ink color is integrated, the density and lightness are all full of flavor, vivid but not vulgar, sophisticated but not delicate. He uses a large number of His sketching pushed landscape painting to a new peak. It fully displays the spiritual features of the beautiful Putuo, the majestic Yandang, and the majestic Laoshan Mountain. His works are mainly landscapes with ink brushes. His hills and valleys, composition, brushwork, and realm are all exquisite, and his energy and pulse are especially consistent.
It can be seen from his masterpieces "Yandang Shiliang Cave", "Travel to Laoshan Mountain" and "Mount Putuo is Better in Autumn", some of the pictures are full of strange peaks and rocks, some towering into the sky, some looking proudly at the lake and sea, skinny and strange. The mountains and valleys are dotted with pavilions, buildings, pavilions, corridors, and pines and cypresses, making people naturally think that these are famous Chinese mountain wonders. "Li Ke, who is well aware of the importance of talent and nature to art, has also found himself in the modern process of landscape painting. This is Shi Tao's saying of 'I am myself, I am myself'" (Famous painter of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Critic Liu Xilin). In the pursuit of the traditional brush and ink color art of Chinese landscape painting, Professor Lan Like has gone through the process of "getting in" and "jumping out". Everyone who has influenced him has not restricted his personal creation. His paintings not only maintain the rhythm of lines and the richness of ink, but also make appropriate use of the beauty of tones. Many of Professor Lanlik's landscape paintings are impressive for the artist's unique conception and superb technique. Returning to the Era and Traditional Pen and Ink It can be seen from Professor Lanlik's paintings that he not only conducts in-depth research on tradition, but also pays attention to life, and seeks and explores the pen and ink language of the times in his life. He attaches great importance to the laws of nature and art, and pays more attention to experiencing the beauty of nature with his heart. As Mr. Wen Lipeng, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and a famous theorist, commented when he watched the Qingdao Painting Academy's first exhibition of Professor Lan Like's works in Beijing in the 1990s: "A new painting language has emerged." When explaining the origin of his studio name "Xinyuanzhai", he said: "Xinyuanzhai" means "the external teacher creates the heart, and the inner source is obtained", and its deep-seated connotation is to use lines when painting. To put it bluntly, a painting should be like a symphony, and the brush and ink should be in keeping with the times. Therefore, from Lan Li Ke's paintings, we can see that some of his brushstrokes are very strong, and he used yellow color relatively early in landscape paintings. Some critics commented on Professor Lan Li Ke's landscape paintings: "The central brush strokes resemble cursive seals, and the unpredictable burnt ink breaks through the water. At a glance, you can tell that it is Lan Li Ke's painting. Although Western-style modern architecture or paintings sometimes appear in the paintings, Mountain village dwellings, but that is already a highly refined symbol of Lan Li Ke's painting. "Yu Dongbo said in the article "Lan Li Ke's Landscape Painting": "Lan Li Ke not only inherited Shi Tao and Huang Binhong. The essence of our excellent brushwork and ink has inherited the important idea of ??"inner beauty" in Huang's paintings. "It should be said that Professor Lan Like's landscape paintings are explicit but not boring, dense but not chaotic, and are both wild and subtle. There is agility and moisture in it. He highly grasped the overall effect while not describing in detail. Therefore, the landscapes he writes reflect his inner feelings, a turbulent and beautiful torrent between his own subjective world and the objective world. He uses lines and burnt ink artistically and organically, and the overall picture emphasizes the momentum of the mountains and rivers. , the expressiveness of environmental rhyme. The coloring forms a loud main tone in key parts, integrating the modern aesthetic interest into the picture, and achieving the perfect unity of tradition and modernity, form and content. It vividly expresses the awe-inspiring righteousness that fills the space between heaven and earth, which is thrilling and soul-stirring. Look to the future and enjoy it. "When a person passes seventy strokes, he gets older. Thousands of troops can defeat thousands of horses." This is a sentence that Lan Liqi appreciates very much. Among the various art trends that are frequently emerging in the contemporary era, Professor Lanlik, who is over seventy years old, does not have the impetuous mentality of following the trend, but shows the demeanor and heroic spirit of "watching all things quietly and enjoying himself", and he never tires of creating landscape paintings. , he has a noble temperament, insists on academics, does not pursue fame and fortune, and does not pursue fashion; he engages in academic research, teaches and educates people, and never considers personal gains and losses. He has gained a lot from his long-term teaching practice. He said that the process of teaching students is a mutual learning process. He always insists on imparting his skills to students without reservation. While concentrating on educating people, we also create more deliberately innovative and unconventional artistic works. After his retirement, the Academy of Fine Arts of Qingdao University hired Professor Lan back to teach. In order to cultivate more talents, Lanlik readily agreed. In his long-term teaching practice, Lan Like has trained many influential calligraphers and painters in Qilu, such as Wang Shaobo, the dean of the Academy of Fine Arts. And I have always adhered to the path of academic painting, never catering to the needs and aesthetics of the market and judges, and trying my best to paint works with a sense of the times and style.
With his unique pen and ink language full of inner beauty and his profound grasp of "physics", his works will present a high-style and strong personal style, which will make him unique and eye-catching in the contemporary landscape painting world. At the end of the interview, Professor Lan Like said that looking at the artistic works of ancient and modern masters, as a post-scholar, we should reach out to life with one hand and tradition with the other, constantly strengthen personality cultivation and artistic cultivation, and work diligently to make our own. Light and heat are fully released. This is my message to young painters and also my self-encouragement creed. We look forward to Professor Lan Li Ke’s personal exhibition coming to Beijing as soon as possible, and looking forward to him creating more majestic and majestic Chinese landscape paintings that are rich in the new era.