Cai Ruohong (art critic, former vice chairman of China Artists Association)
Sun Qifeng commented on his paintings: "Learn from the past without embarrassment, and be kind and different."
Sun Qifeng (painter)
Looking closely at the bamboo painted by Yu Fang, it is intended to seek straightness in the song and square in the circle, not to admire beauty, to take a strange rise, and to have a different feeling and a strange taste. Su Dongpo has a poem: "Its bamboo is infinitely fresh." I think the painter has reached this point, has stepped out of the fence, has taken a big step, and has unlimited prospects.
Zhou Zangmi (Professor and Painter of China Academy of Fine Arts)
Li Fangyu pays great attention to brushwork in bamboo painting, and this brushwork comes from calligraphy. The brushwork of calligraphy directly affects the painter's use of timeline in bamboo painting. For example, different brushwork, different gestures, and different conditions of bamboo joints, roots and leaves are all properly expressed in different brushwork and different States. Throughout Li Fangyu's bamboo paintings, it can be summarized as "painting beyond the gods". He used to express subjectively, not limited to objects, and "painting gods" became the main content of his bamboo paintings. When analyzing the point, line, ink and color of bamboo painting, it is not difficult to find the brushwork of cursive script and seal script, which adds a seamless brushwork to the picture, especially breaking the traditional painting mode and writing bamboo with light and shadow effect, which increases the expressive force. It cannot be said that it is the result of determined innovation.
Xu Encun (art critic)
Yu Fang is famous for his unique skills in flowers and birds, bluegrass and vines. Side by side with landscape and calligraphy. Han Li, Yang Weizhen and Yi Bingshou are masters of calligraphy. The heroic spirit is clear, the vertical and horizontal rise is strange, the ink is heavy and solid, and it is self-contained. Grass is really official and omnipotent. In addition, his research on Chinese painting techniques and historical theory is fruitful and eye-catching, and he is a rare talent in the painting world.
Tan Yinglin (Professor of Shandong Art Institute, Master Supervisor)
Li Fangyu's art contains the frank, simple and magnificent characteristics of northern artists, and also shows the spiritual, pure and elegant charm of southern art everywhere. This has an important connection with his learning experience.
For decades, Yu Fang devoted himself to the creation and research of China's freehand brushwork of flowers and birds, and made extensive and in-depth research and discussion on painting history, painting theory, poetry and calligraphy, and gradually formed artistic features of dull taste, vigorous and clear spirit, simple and heavy brushwork and elegant taste.
Qiu (professor and art critic of Qingdao University)
Li Fangyu, also known as Niu Li, male, 1945, is from Fanxian County, Henan Province. 1969 graduated from art department of Shandong Normal University, 1975 graduated from Chinese painting department of China Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently a member of China Artists Association, a first-class artist of Shandong Art Museum, a senior painter of Shandong Painting Academy, honorary chairman of China Contemporary Painting and Calligraphy Research Association, director of Beijing Qi Baishi Art Research Association, senior honorary academician of Singapore Shenzhou Painting Academy, and honorary consultant of Bangkok China Painting Academy.