What is the moral of Li Keran's famous painting "Flying a kite with a cow's back"?

Moral: Buffalo's meekness and diligence are also consistent with his pursuit of human nature. So I came up with the idea of drawing a cow to express my feelings and personality ideals.

Li Keran began to draw cows in his early forties, when he lived in a farmhouse in Jingangpo, Chongqing. In the dead of night, he heard the old buffalo grazing in the opposite cowshed. That's the landlord's cow, which is driven by a child of several years old every day. He thought of life from cattle, the meaning of life, and Lu Xun's words, "I have eaten grass and milked."

So he began to observe the buffalo carefully and found that the skeletal posture of the buffalo in the south is richer than that of the cattle in the north, which is suitable for ink painting.

The cow painted by Li Keran is very interesting in life, either walking, lying down or drowning; On the back of the cow, the childlike shepherd boy is carefree, or watching the mountains, or talking about the sky, or running a race, and a few strokes will outline a simple and vibrant pastoral scene.

The landscape works in the 1940 s were linear pen and ink structures. After the 1950s, the works changed from linear pen-and-ink structure to block-like pen-and-ink structure, with ink as the main part, which was simple and rich as a whole, heavy and profound.

Li Keran's landscape paintings introduce light into the picture, and are especially good at showing the effect of mountain forest backlighting in the morning and evening, which makes his works hazy, confused and wandering. Generally speaking, Li Keran's landscape paintings are closer to the perceptual reality of the object than those of Ming and Qing Dynasties, which weakens the independence of meaning and form and interest in a certain sense.

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