Appreciation of Mr. Bai Xue Shi's Works

The Li River series of Mr. Xue Shi's landscapes should be said to be the most representative of the artist's outstanding artistic achievements in the innovation of traditional landscape painting. Looking at his Li River landscapes, no matter whether they are majestic and heavy, or beautiful and ethereal, or sparse and hazy, no matter whether it is an absolute sentence-type lyrical scene, or a panoramic scroll, Mr. Xue Shi is able to use his skillful and old ink and brushwork to use different ink interests such as thick, light, dry, wet, splash, broken, etc., and the different feelings of chapping and dabbing, and appropriately depict the subtle changes of the Li River's sunny, cloudy, rainy and foggy landscapes and water shadows.

The cutting of the image, the disposition of the chapters, the artistic treatment of simple and simple, dense and sparse, real and imaginary, and the primary and secondary, are all extremely elaborate and can be natural and steady without any traces of axe chiseling. Hook, chapped, rubbed, point pale old and majestic pen, ink rendering of the rich layers, shaping the Li River water color and sky, the reflection of the peaks, bamboo farmhouses, rain and smoke, fishing rafts, bananas and new bamboo, constituting a rich layer of space far-reaching hair people dream of a fascinating picture. These are all painters in the teacher on the basis of nature, according to its personal artistic ideals and aesthetic experience of the catharsis of its "chest" of the Li River landscape, the so-called "mountains and rivers in the Yu Yu encounter and traces of chemistry," this is also said.

The historical connotation of "the landscape of Guilin is the best in the world" and the rhyme of the ancient saying "the river is a green ribbon and the mountains are like jasper hairpins" have all melted into the painter's mind and aesthetic creation.

Fresh and bright, quiet and serene, and open and distant is the overall flavor of Bai Xueshi's Lijiang River landscapes, and each individual seems to be like a beautiful movement with different lengths and rhythms, like "High Mountains and Flowing Water" with its far-reaching and smooth flow; like "Autumn Moon on the Lake" with its soothing serenity; and like "Moonlit Night on the Spring River" with its brilliant and faraway ...... In a word, Mr. Xueshi's Lijiang River landscapes make people feel that they can see the river as a green belt, and the mountains as a jasper hairpin, which are famous sayings in ancient times. In short, Mr. Xue Shi's Li River landscapes are refreshing. Mr. Xue Shi's Lijiang River landscapes are refreshing to the eyes and the mind. "Painting is like a person", this is exactly the reflection of the painter's mind. Decadent, depressed, arrogant catharsis, or pretentious distortion of the artistic mind, never with Mr. White.

Mr. Bai Xue Shi with its sincerity to the ideal of art, the persistent pursuit of innovation, the courage to break through the stereotyped language stereotypes, in the creation of modern Chinese national painting and new aspects, Mr. Xue Shi is indeed its life-long artistic practice, in thought and art, have come out of a successful enough to enlighten people's minds the road of art.