A brief introduction to the painter Xu Li is as follows:
Xu Li, part-time vice-chairman and former secretary-general of the Chinese Artists Association, concurrently serves as the "Chinese Civilization and Historical Themes Art" director of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Culture. Director of the Organizing Committee Office and Creative Steering Committee Office of the "Creative Project", Director of the Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association, Chief Judge of the National Art Exhibition, and Director of the Review Committee.
Director of the Chinese Artists Association and member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association. Member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles, member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Culture, History and Learning Committee of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and honorary president of Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts in Sichuan. In 2021, he participated in the recording as a guest in the second season of "Like an Old Friend".
Artistic Style
Xu Li studied calligraphy and directly inherited the stone carvings from the Northern Dynasties. He got the sharp and sharp Duanmu from Zheng Wengong and Zhang Menglong, and the roughness from the Taishan Sutra, Shiyu Diamond Sutra and Longmen Twenty Pins. Vigorous. Its structure, the skeleton is outward, flat and broad; its brushwork, the strokes are unrestrained, the folded strokes are restrained, the vertical strokes are square and firm; its composition, the main script is sparse and clear, the cursive lines are balanced, the grass is included in the middle, and the continuous strokes are even and rigid. Soft in the middle.
His figure paintings are closely based on the spicy, crude, strong and domineering lines of Wang Yiting and Qi Baishi, and are far based on the simple freehand brushwork and grotesque shapes of Liang Kai and Chen Hongshou. He combines the inner power of calligraphy with stele studies. It is used to express the image of those simple and freehand strokes. Each stroke is written with gravity, strong and vigorous, especially the eyes of Arhat, Maitreya, Bodhidharma, Zhong Kui, Taoist priests, etc. are captured.
Dynamic exaggeration, hair and beard meaning. The study and creation of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting freed Xu Li from the modeling system of Western painting academy education, which started his deep transformation and exploration in the new century of continuously integrating elements of Chinese calligraphy and painting into oil paintings. This is mainly reflected in two aspects:
Firstly, his oil painting sketches gradually shifted from the reproduction of conditional light and color to imagery expression; secondly, he combined the imagery observation of literati landscape paintings with the freehand brushwork in oil painting. Structural transformation, exploring the distinctive Chinese spirit written in oil paintings.
He transformed the vigor and vigor of his calligraphy brush into the majestic and wild movement of oil paint strokes, so that the painting has a subtle narrative that transcends the object image, and also allows the moderately symbolized object image to be conveyed through the strokes of the brush strokes. Abstract expression carries the character of mind, realm and character. The early figures in the painting actually combine ancient Greek vase paintings, Egyptian tomb stone carvings and Tibetan Buddhist paintings into one.
The unity of object and self achieved through writing lines, and the style and realm carried by it, truly highlight the Chinese artistic spirit of image oil painting with literary heart and poetry as its core. The fusion of Chinese and Western elements expresses the philosophical meaning of a philosophical view of life. It is the unity of Tao, heaven and man, the blending of mind and matter, and the artistic conception of entering into the realm of Zen Buddhism.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xuli