Li Kuchan (1899 ~ 1983) is a contemporary master of flower and bird painting. What is Li Kuchan good at drawing? What is Li Kuchan's artistic thought? Knowing this, we can easily appreciate Li Kuchan's works.
What is Li Kuchan good at drawing? What is Li Kuchan's artistic thought? This should start with Li Kuchan's personal experience. Gaotang County, Li Kuchan, was influenced by China's traditional culture since childhood and loved traditional calligraphy and painting. He studied western painting from Xu Beihong and Chinese painting from Qi Baishi. He was good at flower-and-bird painting, especially eagle painting. He is a master of freehand brushwork in flower-and-bird painting who is as famous as Qi Baishi in the history of China.
Li Kuchan is a painter and an art educator. He not only has superb painting and calligraphy skills, but also has made great contributions to Chinese traditional painting and calligraphy education. He has many theories about freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting, which has professional guiding significance for future generations to learn freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting. What is Li Kuchan's artistic thought?
Li Kuchan pays attention to observing nature. His paintings are natural, higher than nature, integrated into people's hearts, and remain on ink paper. The flowers and birds in the painting seem to have returned to the natural state of "nature" and reached the point of different shapes and spirits. Li Kuchan advocated "the principle of homology of calligraphy and painting". Therefore, his brushwork is vigorous and powerful, and he paints with lines of calligraphy, which is particularly imposing, especially the eagle painted by Li Kuchan, whose bones are vigorous and handsome, and the feeling of watching the eagle and the wolf is overwhelming.