In the last two years of his life, he was still exploring new artistic depths. After learning of this unfortunate news, a reporter from Chengdu Commercial Daily came to Li Jiazheng’s home on Jinqin Road and saw outside the courtyard door downstairs. A funeral car was parked, and a mourning hall had been set up in the small yard. One after another, Li Jiazheng's relatives, students and friends came to see him off. It is reported that some fellow painters from Beijing will come to Chengdu today to see Mr. Li on his last journey. Yan Cheng, a student of Li Jiazheng and a well-known contemporary sculptor in Chengdu, also came to the mourning hall. He sadly told a reporter from Chengdu Business Daily that although he knew that the teacher's physical condition had been poor after the operation, he did not expect that the teacher would leave so suddenly. "I have been studying calligraphy and painting with Teacher Li since my second year in high school. He is a painter who has a particularly great influence on me and is my mentor." In Yan Cheng's eyes, Li Jiazheng is a painter with a strong traditional spirit of Chinese painting. "He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts with a major in oil painting. However, his strong awareness of Chinese culture allowed Mr. Li to change his painting method from west to east in the 1980s, and began to actively explore it in the 1990s, forming his own unique style. Yan Cheng took out three picture albums from his collection and showed them to reporters, "These three picture albums roughly reflect the two changes in Mr. Li's painting style, which have gone through three periods - by traditional Chinese literati. Painting turned to a modern painting style, and then to a contemporary painting style. Until the last two years of his life, Teacher Li continued to explore new artistic depths. This is what I admire most about him. ” Later, the reporter also saw Li Jiazheng’s only son, Li Han, who was busy making phone calls with red eyes, informing his relatives and friends one by one about the death of his father. Li Han told reporters that because his father had just passed away in the afternoon and the mourning hall had just been set up, it would take time to determine the specific arrangements for the funeral. In 2001, Li Jiazheng held a solo exhibition titled "My Schema" at the Chengdu Museum of Modern Art. Since then, Li Jiazheng has been concentrating on creation or participating in some group exhibitions. Not long ago, his students and friends planned to hold another solo exhibition for him. However, this plan can now only be turned into a retrospective exhibition of his life. Yan Cheng said: "Teacher Li is a person who cherishes his paintings very much. He still has two to three hundred works at home that have never been exhibited. We plan to select some of the most representative masterpieces from these works for Teacher Li holds a commemorative painting exhibition. This is something that must be done." The energetic and avant-garde old man was playing in the disco bar until early in the morning. While talking, a young boy walked into the hut and pinned a piece of black on Yan Cheng's sleeve. yarn. His name is Bi Fei, a student of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and a student of Yan Cheng. In terms of seniority, he can be regarded as Li Jiazheng's disciple. But in his eyes, Teacher Li's vitality and avant-garde are almost as good as his own. Bi Fei told reporters that Li Jiazheng likes watching movies, especially Hollywood blockbusters. "Sometimes Teacher Li calls me very late and asks me to accompany him to watch a movie. It's already midnight after watching the movie..." In terms of life style, Li Jiazheng is also on par with young people, and he dresses very well. She is particular about fashion, loves famous fashion brands, and writes a blog! The reporter saw many photos on his blog. In the photos, Li Jiazheng always wears a Burberry classic plaid scarf, which is very trendy. Bi Fei also told reporters: On Christmas Eve in 2006, the Li family happily pulled him and asked him to take him to a disco bar. "We played in a slow rocking bar until 4 o'clock. I couldn't even get up. Teacher Li didn't say he was sleepy yet. I admire him so much..." After hearing this, Li Jiazheng's friend Chu Sang, a well-known art critic in Chengdu, was sitting next to him. He also interjected: "Teacher Li is definitely a person with a chic personality, always like a young man, and likes to try new things. Just two years ago, he went to Beijing to paint and set up his own work in the Caochangdi Art District He only came back to Chengdu this year. We all laughed and said he was an old "Beijing drifter". According to Yan Cheng's recollection, Li Jiazheng had "experienced" jobs in almost all walks of life - he opened a small shop and set up a street stall. He worked as an art editor in a foreign language bookstore, did advertising design, ran a decoration company, taught in Beijing... After retiring in the 1990s, Li Jiazheng devoted all his energy to painting. "He has a very rich life experience, and the content in his paintings is also quite profound." Yan Cheng said, "In the past few years, he even tried to do installation art and participated in our '135M135' contemporary art exhibition. It can be said that, There is no area of ??art that he does not want to explore.
"However, this enthusiasm and drive caused some regrets for Li Jiazheng in his personal life: he was married four times, and except for a son from his first marriage, he never had any more children. The last time The marriage also ended three years ago. It is said that Li Jiazheng has always attached great importance to the integrity of his family, but cannot accept the dullness of married life.