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

The moral of flying a kite on the back of a cow is:

Things are rough and calm, riding a cow and flying a kite. No matter what the future holds, Xi Tong is always alone and carefree. Express my best wishes for reaching the top of the world. Do your best, go all the way and climb to the top.

We can see that Li Keran's landscape paintings attach importance to the cohesion of images.

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.

Li Keran's figure painting is dynamic and implicit, exaggerated but not ugly, simple but not Gu Zhuo, full of humor, wit and interest in life.

The cows painted by Li Keran are very interesting in life, either walking, lying or drowning in water; 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.

As shown in the figure:

Famous painter Li Keran:

1born on March 26th, 907,1died on February 5th, 989, from Xuzhou, Jiangsu. China is an outstanding painter and poet in modern times, and a disciple of painter Qi Baishi. Li Keran loved painting since childhood, and learned to paint landscapes at the age of 13. 43 years old, professor of Central Academy of Fine Arts. At the age of 49, he traveled long distances to Wan Li to sketch. At the age of 72, he was the vice chairman of China Artists Association and the president of Chinese Painting Research Institute. Pencils are often old and spicy in old age. He is good at painting landscapes and people, especially cows.

Painting style

In terms of landscape painting, Li Keran advocated that "those who have value have courage, and those who want souls have souls" and "enter the style with the greatest skill and courage", which endowed the ancient landscape painting art with new life. He also stressed that landscape painting should be from scratch, from scratch, that is, from simple to rich, and then from rich to simple. In the aspect of sketch, Li Keran thinks that sketch is the science of studying image, and the only purpose of sketch is to accurately reflect the objective image. The accurate image description, as well as the scientific truth of appropriateness and light and shade, are only good for the development of Chinese painting, but never bad.

Li Keran also put forward the idea of "taking one but refining ten". In other words, mining is hard, smelting requires hundreds of times of labor, and real artistic creation must have both the hardships and diligence of miners and smelters.