I heard there is a Li River School of Painting, what is it about?

The Li River School of Painting is one of the contemporary Chinese painting schools. The so-called Li River School of Painting refers to a group of painters with the same ideal pursuit and distinctive artistic style with the purpose of expressing the style of the times, taking the beautiful landscapes of Guangxi as the main object of expression, taking traditional Chinese painting as the main body, and taking the contemporary painters of Guangxi as the main force of the painters with the same ideal pursuit and distinctive artistic style of the ****.

Concept of painting school

It is a newly emerging art school in a certain region with similar style. Under the same cultural background and social conditions, painters practicing in the same region tend to hold similar artistic concepts, focus on similar subjects, and use similar forms and materials, thus forming similar artistic styles and a certain artistic influence. In the history of Chinese painting, the Zhejiang School, the Wu Men School, the Huating School, the Songjiang School, and the Yushan School are typical of regional art schools.

Representative Figures

There are many painters who have painted or become famous for Li River landscape in Chinese history, such as Shi Tao in the 15th century and Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Xu Beihong and Li Keran in the 20th century. The old generation of painters in Guangxi, such as Shuai Chujian, Yang Yang, Huang Dufeng, Tu Ke, etc., also created a large number of popular and excellent works of Li River landscape, laying a good foundation for the growth and development of the Li River School of Painting.Since the mid-1980s, a group of painters in Guangxi, led by Huang Gesheng, have put their creative focus on depicting the landscape of the Li River and the scenery of southern Guangxi, and have formed a group of painters with distinctive regional characteristics and unique artistic pursuits. The group of painters with distinctive regional characteristics and unique pursuit of art, these painters with **** the same object of artistic expression and similar painting style, unique in the domestic painting world, attracting attention, the Li River School of painting gradually formed.

Aesthetic Characteristics

The main aesthetic characteristic of the Li River School of Painting is the new idyllic poetry painting style of the modern south, and the most characteristic feature of its Chinese paintings is biochemical and living. Most of the works are based on scene sketching, with the typical warmth and calmness of the southern style, vivid atmosphere and tolerance and openness. In terms of technique, they are distinguished by lines, drenching ink and bright colors. Li River School of Painting is a multi-painting school with distinctive contemporary nature, in which the group of ink painters with the theme of southern landscape, the group of oil painters with the theme of "southern landscape" subtropical region, and the group of watercolor painters with the theme of the Beibu Gulf have had a greater influence in the domestic painting world. The leading painter of the school, Huang Gesheng, created the "Hundred Miles of the Li River" scroll and the "Hundred Scenes of the Li River" series, which are the most representative works of the Li River School of Painting. Other representative painters include Zhang Fuxing, Zheng Junli, Zhang Dongfeng, Liu Shaokun, Liang Yao, Shi Xiangdong, Lei Wu, Huang Jing, Xie Sen, Liu Nanyi, Xiao Shunzhi, Wu Xiaodong, Yao Zhenxi, Xu Jiajue, Chen Yigang, Yang Cheng, Huang Shaopeng, Zhou Song, Xiong Ding and art theorists such as Su Traveler, Liu Xin and so on, which are well known in China's contemporary painting world.