Li Xiaobai's artistic evaluation

In artistic creation, people who follow the rules, dabble in it, rely on talent, take pride in things, and be happy with the situation can't walk out of their own new path, nor will they leave footprints with dignity. Only sincere artistic pursuers can form a unique artistic personality and become a climate by choosing one and following the other and exhausting their life energy. Li Xiaobai, a famous flower-and-bird painter living in the United States, is such a devotee who is obsessed with exploring meticulous flower-and-bird painting.

Looking at his paintings, there is a strong moist, ethereal, quiet, deep, holy and slightly mysterious Zen atmosphere. This refreshing and clean includes the disadvantages of not being turbid, dirty, impetuous, wet, flashy and sweet. This is the natural expression of the painter's accomplishment, temperament and character, and it is also the result of being good at artistic treatment. The unique artistic style is the high unity of the painter's unique emotion and unique expression. Li Xiaobai's art is original and self-centered.

Li Xiaobai was born into a painting family, and received strict modeling training in high and other fine arts colleges. Later, he was influenced by western modern painting and thought for many years abroad. Therefore, he has profound knowledge, solid foundation, open mind and heavy accumulation, which makes his meticulous painting, connotation and implication have the national cultural character and temperament. The external form and internal spirit are different from the west and close to modern times.

In order to express his thoughts accurately, the painter broke the conventional boundaries in the application of techniques, avoided confusion in the combination of various artistic languages, and gradually formed his own new painting program and concept of statutes. His works are simple in image, prominent in theme, fresh in style, refined, even and elegant, profound in meaning and lyrical. In the creation, we insist on expressing the characteristics of life by sketching, emphasizing the feeling of inner touch, in order to achieve the pursuit of turning natural beauty into artistic beauty.

"Relying on tradition and facing modernity" is the painter's generalization and orientation of the form of his works. In his works, the anthropomorphic sentiment, the injection of human nature and human feelings, and the attachment to the life of flowers, birds, grass and insects are mysterious in the interest of life, nature and nature, expressing people's concern about the ecological environment and the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. This has found a point of convergence with the times.

Author: Jia Dejiang (President of Beijing Arts and Crafts Publishing House, a famous painter and art critic)

Yixing purple sand has formed a unique landscape in its historical process due to the intervention of literati. The unique charm of purple sand pottery and literati's preferences tend to be consistent in aesthetic characteristics, and the continuous exchange and mutual agitation between them have greatly improved the cultural connotation and artistic level of Yixing purple sand. The so-called "literati" are mainly two kinds of people: one is a cultural celebrity and the other is a painter. The latter is the main force among the literati who participated in Zisha. For a long time, China's calligraphy and painting have been the mainstream art of China culture, and painters' various accomplishments in traditional culture have enabled them to get involved in Zisha in various ways. Among them, the most choice is to directly apply calligraphy and painting to the teapot.

In today's "purple sand fever" market, some pot-making friends often ask some painters or painters to write or draw on the pot blank in order to "make the pot expensive because of the words"; Some young and middle-aged painters choose purple sand as the carrier because the competition in the painting and calligraphy market is fierce, and it is often difficult to encourage some superficial and superficial works for the utilitarian pursuit of "passing books by pot". Of course, there are also many people who can calm down and make great efforts to contact purple sand and study it seriously. Mr Li Xiaobai is one of them.

Mr. Xiaobai was born in a family of meticulous flower-and-bird paintings, and is the eldest son of the famous painter Li Changbai. He graduated from Nanjing Art Institute in his early years, stayed there to teach, and soon went to study in the United States. Over the past 20 years, he has held dozens of art exhibitions in the United States and served as the chairman of the Artists Association of Greater new york. When I was studying in Nanyi, my father, Mr. Li Changbai, taught us meticulous flower-and-bird painting. Li and his son's meticulous flower-and-bird paintings are beautiful, elegant and poetic, which is far from the rigid and delicate meticulous painting.

Although Mr. Xiaobai is famous for his meticulous brushwork with three colors and nine dyes, his relaxed and pretty freehand brushwork was well-known in Jiangsu painting circle before he went to the United States. After more than 20 years of overseas life and experience, Xiaobai's painting style has matured. When he was mature, he really found his own unique expression. Some people are old-fashioned, others are easy-going. As long as it is naturally revealed out of personal temperament and knowledge, it is successful, and forced affectation has always been a taboo in the art world. People who are familiar with Li Xiaobai's paintings will immediately take their seats, which are natural, ethereal, elegant and refined. This is Li Xiaobai, and this is Li Xiaobai with profound modeling ability and pen and ink skills as the background. There is no posturing or mystifying, which is his free expression of artistic beauty after he really understands it.

Li Xiaobai came to hold an art exhibition the year before last, and had more contact with purple sand art, so he fell in love with purple sand. He has been to Yixing eight times before and after, working in Yixing studio for nearly a week every time, and working hard for more than ten hours every day. Before coming, they drew a picture album page in Nanjing, and then transplanted the pictures on the picture album page to the teapot in Yixing, and repeatedly deliberated with many young craftsmen who made pottery carvings to convey the form and meaning and achieve perfection.

65,438+000 paintings and 65,438+000 pots have been completed, and Chinese painting and teapot are combined into one, which further sublimates the art. The original works of art complement each other, cannot be copied and can only be obtained occasionally. It is a good thing in the collection.

Li Xiaobai's pursuit of art and love for purple sand are still unfinished, and we eagerly look forward to his new work as a purple sand culture.

Author: Tang (national master of arts and crafts) came to Meihua Mountain in the spring of 2008 to enjoy the beautiful plum blossom map.

Plum blossom has been cultivated in China for more than 4000 years. Plum blossom ranks first among the four gentlemen, Mei Ju, and is the flower king who announces spring in the first month. Scholars of all ages have left behind countless Yongmei's Mo Bao poems.

If you savor Xiaobai's plum blossom map carefully, you will be moved by the unique plum blossom essence, spirit and verve. Xiao Bai loves Mei, visits Mei, enjoys Mei, writes Mei and writes Yongmei. His works of Bai Mei, Hongmei and Lvmei stand proudly, are graceful, or cross in the air, which vividly shows the character and style of "the prouder the snow, the firmest the integrity among flowers" (Song Dynasty) and naturally embodies "jade and snow are the best". The quality and charm of Song Zhuxi, who dares to compete with Kuihuo for the song of the dynasty, richly shows the moral character and grace of Wang Yuan Mian, who is "fragrant overnight and scattered like withered Kun and Wan Li Spring", harmoniously shows the broad-minded mind and demeanor of "bloom is full of flowers and hides the knife in his smile", and shows the main spirit of Chinese culture with the virtue of self-improvement.

If you savor Xiao Bai's Plum Blossom, you will be infected by his unique understanding of the rhythm of life. Xiaobai is the tenth generation grandson of Li Yu, a famous painter, and the eldest son of Li Changbai, a master of contemporary Chinese painting. He graduated from Nanjing Art Institute in his early years, stayed there to teach, and soon went to study in the United States. He has been in the United States for more than 20 years, and his life experience is rich and colorful. Art is the aesthetic expression of life. Xiaobai's plum blossom painting is a natural and fresh physical environment, inspired by foreign teachers, vivid, freehand and vivid. It is a cognitive environment with rich and profound philosophy of life, an imaginative artistic conception with double feelings about the universe and his own life, and a true portrayal of his spiritual personality, but it is no longer self-admiration, self-pity and self-pity.

If you savor Xiaobai's plum blossom, you will be attracted by his unique artistic charm. Xiaobai's plum blossom painting highlights the unique artistic style, which is natural and ethereal, elegant and refined, beautiful and refined, and poetic and meaningful. The combination of rigidity and softness shows the unique scroll breath and literati style of China's art, which blends with the spirit of plum blossom, opens the mind, cultivates temperament and enjoys beauty.

Spring has come. When I walked into Meihua Mountain, I was still admiring the plum blossoms and savoring Xiaobai's exquisite plum blossom map. What was refreshing was Soul of China.

Author: Gao (Executive Vice President and Secretary General of Jiangsu Chinese Culture Promotion Association, researcher of China Academy of Art Institute of Fine Arts)