Interesting talk about Li Kuchan the seal.

Interesting talk about Li Kuchan the seal.

Li Kuchan: Li Kuchan (1899— 1983), formerly known as Li Ying and formerly known as Gong Li. Gaotang people in Shandong. Contemporary Chinese painting painter, calligrapher and art educator. At the invitation of Xu Beihong, he was appointed professor of Chinese painting at Beiping National Art College. Since its founding, People's Republic of China (PRC) has been a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Together with Pan Tianshou, he became two great contemporary freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painters, known as "Southern Pan and Northern Li". His works have participated in many exhibitions at home and abroad and enjoyed a high reputation. Published "Li Kuchan Painting Collection", etc.

"Gong Li" seal

"Gong Li" is the name of Li Kuchan, and it was chosen as the seal of "Gong Li" for self-encouragement and self-vigilance. Li Kuchan had a hard life in his early years. He works part-time in the middle school attached to Peking University, pulling rickshaws at night to make a living and finish his studies, so it is impossible to have enough time to learn painting. He thinks he missed too many learning opportunities when he was young. In order to remind himself to cherish time, learn knowledge and paint, he carved the seal of "Gong Li". After the founding of New China, Li Kuchan's living and creative conditions were greatly improved, and he gained a new artistic life. His heart was full of joy, and he was engraved with the seal of "Happy in the Prosperous Age".

"Looking at Mountains and Rivers from afar" and "Fighting Wan Li" are printed.

Li Kuchan is good at drawing eagles. The shape of the eagle he painted is usually neither concrete nor abstract. On the basis of realism, he boldly summarized and deformed them, and made choices to shape the image. The eagle's mouth, claws, eyes and nose are often written in thick ink, and the pen is bold and natural; The mighty body of the eagle is a faint ink stamp, dripping and hearty. As a result, he often stamped his mighty goshawk with a loose seal of "overlooking the mountains and rivers" and "fighting Wan Li" to express his yearning for the eagle "spreading its wings and flying between clouds and neon, and stopping at the top of the mountain independently".

Milan Kucan

Endless death

Li Kuchan painted "Looking at Mountains and Rivers from afar",

On Mars's seal, Ku Chen, learning makes you more stupid, written after 80s.