Li Kuchan and Dai Song what animals are they each good at painting?

Li Kuchan was good at painting eagles, and Dai Song was good at painting cows.

1, Li Kuchan (1899- 1983), male, born in poverty. Modern calligraphy and painter, art educator. Originally named Li Yingjie, changed his name to Ying, word Reed Gong. He was a native of Gaotang, Shandong Province and studied under Qi Baishi in 1923.

Li Kuchan (1899-1983), a modern Chinese master of large-capitalization flower and bird painting and art educator, was originally known as Li Yingjie and Li Ying, with the characters Chao-San and Reed Gong. Born in Gaotang County, Shandong Province to a poor farming family, he was inspired by the traditional culture of his hometown since childhood and embarked on an artistic journey.

His representative painting, Li Kuchan Pine Eagle, was created in 1973, showing five mighty eagles perched on top of a towering cliff, surrounded by lush pines.

2. Dai Song, whose date of birth and death is unknown, was a painter in the Tang Dynasty. He was a disciple of Han Hwang, and when Han Hwang was guarding the western part of Zhejiang, Song was the inspector. He was good at painting scenes of fields and plains, and was especially famous for painting water buffaloes. It is rumored that he once painted a buffalo drinking water with its reflection in the water and its lips and nose connected to each other, which shows the subtlety of his observation. His younger brother, Dai Yiyi, was good at painting buffaloes. With Han Gan's painting of horses, and called "Han horse Dai cattle".

Heritage works include "Bullfighting". The painting is an album page, ink on silk, 44 centimeters longitudinally and 40.8 centimeters horizontally, in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China.

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Li Kuchan was a professor at the Hangzhou Art College, a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a director of the Chinese Artists Association, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Chinese Painting. He specialized in painting birds, flowers and eagles, and in his later years, he often made huge panels, his representative works: "Sheng lotus", "group of eagles", "pine eagle", "orchids and bamboo", "clear snow", "waterfowl", etc. In 1978, he published "Li Kuchan's Paintings Series".

Li Kuchan's calligraphy and painting complemented each other. He emphasized that "calligraphy is the height of painting, and painting is the ultimate rule of calligraphy". Li Kuchan believes that Chinese painting is written, Western painting is drawn, in this regard, China is one step ahead of the West. This is manifested in the "integration of the beauty of the result" and "the beauty of the means" in one, "integration of the art of space" and "the art of time" in one of the changes. The change in the integration of the art of space and the art of time.

The combination of calligraphy and painting is the opportunity and key to this change. Li Kuchan said: "If you don't know the art of calligraphy, if you don't practice calligraphy, you don't know the aesthetics of capitalization and writing". Therefore, Li Kuchan is unique in the Chinese calligraphy art of "Painter's Character". Li Kuchan in decades of searching for monuments to visit the posters in the self-made simple elegant, thick, wind and God, the gentle art of cursive.

Dai Song's paintings of "Bullfighting", "Three Bulls", "Return to the Pasture" and other works are regarded as masterpieces. Among them, "Bullfighting Picture" was collected by Du Shi Shi.

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