Endless Art, Rising to the next level-Li Jinpeng, a famous contemporary landscape painter
The stork tower, located on the southwest bank of the Yellow River outside Puzhou City in yongji city, Shanxi Province, is one of the four famous buildings in China with the same name as Yueyang Tower, Tengwang Pavilion and Yellow Crane Tower. It was built during the anniversary of the North, with its back against the ancient city of Puzhou and facing the rolling Yellow River, and it was sung by many literati and poets. to ascend another storey to see a thousand miles further This is the inscription of the famous painter Mr. Li Jinpeng in his huge new Chinese painting "The Stork Tower". After reading these words, whether you know painting or not, you will add some attraction and understanding to the work in front of you, and further realize the magnificence of our good scenery and the richness of Shanxi ancient culture from the painting. This is the charm of Chinese painting art as a cultural business card. This work of Li Jinpeng participated in the "Dialogue with Nature-A Comparative Exhibition of Landscape Paintings and Oil Paintings in China, Shanxi Province" held some time ago, and it won people's attention in the exhibition hall with many famous artists. Li Jinpeng was born in Pingyao, the hinterland of Shanxi merchants. Born and raised in Sri Lanka, the splendid and heavy regional culture has laid a solid cultural foundation for his artistic creation. Li Jinpeng has been painting for more than forty years, and no matter how many difficulties he encountered, he never gave up. At first, he dabbled in a wide range, painting figures, landscapes and flowers and birds. After returning from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1988, he began to focus on landscapes. He has always had a complex in his heart, that is, to paint a good picture of the mountains and rivers in Shanxi and the beautiful scenery in the north and south of Shanxi. Therefore, Taihang Mountain, Yellow River and Wutai Mountain are the main themes of his creation. Li Jinpeng pursues writing in painting. Writing first requires the painter to use rich and flexible techniques and means of expression, and to be able to grasp the meaning at his fingertips. At this point, from the calligraphy strength and linearity of the paragraph at the beginning of the article, we can perceive his profound calligraphy skills and his sophisticated skill of painting with books. The second level of writing mainly tests the artist's personal realm and cultivation-whether he can turn the natural scenery into a gully in his heart, from sketching to creating the environment and then sublimate it into writing the heart! Through talking and observing his paintings, we know that Li Jinpeng has already reached the realm of freedom as he pleases. He has never been able to write a draft. Even if he is a giant, even if he is a serious and important proposition, he starts to draw according to the idea in his mind, and then follows the train of thought, "walking and watching", catching inspiration and banishing the handwriting all the way. His creation is romantic and relaxed, and he doesn't deliberately pursue that an object in his pen is particularly like the prototype in reality. Therefore, the scenery in his pen is always built between the real landmark and the dreamland in his heart-he is painting the landscape in his mind! His artistic practice just coincides with the traditional iron law of Chinese painting art: foreign teachers make nature, and Chinese people get the source of heart. Another point is that Li Jinpeng pays special attention to the creation of modern consciousness in his works. His works are based on the massiness of the northern landscape, combining various excellent factors of light crimson, turquoise and ink painting. Through smudging, rubbing and ink color change, the artistic elements such as line, surface and composition are combined in a seamless manner, so that they can see richness on the massiness, elegance on the richness, and the realm of harmony between man and nature.
Looking back at this painting "The Stork Tower", the whole work has not been damaged by the limitation of its vertical size. The painter has placed this world-famous building of the ancient Yellow River in the center of his vision, highlighting its towering height that has penetrated the years. Above the picture is how the Yellow River's waters move out of heaven, and below it are the solid green mountains and trees. With this composition, the stork tower stands between heaven and earth, facing the green hills and the river, with a wide and distant view, which perfectly sets off the beautiful poetic scene of "mountains cover the white sun and and oceans drain the golden river". Although he has been favored by academic circles and the collection market in recent years, although his works have sold more than many professional painters, Li Jinpeng is not satisfied at all. He insists on reading and sketching all the year round, often goes to watch art exhibitions and learn from fellow artists. He always keeps in mind the endless truth of art and uses his own thinking and practice to "by going up one flight of stairs". Morning News reporter Yixing