Mr. Li Zanzhou
Mr. Li Zanzhou's painting style is diverse, and various expression techniques are integrated and used. Big freehand, small freehand, penmanship, boneless and both. His fame laid the foundation for his artistic character. Wang Xuetao and Qi Baishi had the greatest influence on him, and can also be traced back to the painter Hua Song's small freehand flowers and birds during the Qing Kang Yongqian period. The small freehand of HuaLun in the Qing Dynasty and the ink freehand of the Bada Shanren, as well as the boneless flowers of Yun Nantian, are typical forms of expression and technique in the three middle schools of the Qing Dynasty, and these three techniques are reflected in Mr. Li Zanzhou's works. From Qi Baishi to Wang Xuetao to Li Zanzhou is a relationship of inheritance.
"Good Year"
"Works of Li Zanzhou"
Mr. Li Zanzhou, a flower and bird painter, has a troubled fate in his life, ups and downs, and has developed a tenacious and optimistic character, and has achieved his art in not seeking to be heard and fashionable; his works have solidly transcended the historical appearance of a time and place, and the pen and ink contain eternal human feelings and emotions; although he has spent a life like a "hermit", he has finally entered the "historical album" with artistic achievements, becoming a witness and a representative of the classicity of modern Chinese flower and bird painting art.
"Lotus Pond Fun"
In terms of artistic achievements, Mr. Li Zanzhou's flower and bird painting art, which is overbearing and otherworldly, is expressed as a very high cultural accomplishment and ideological character; his small freehand flower and bird painting style, implicit, introverted, simple and simple, is a different kind of artistic charm and the natural expression and expression of life mood, suggesting the artistic and perceptual form of life structure and life consciousness; thus, the painter's art has reached the artistic height of standardized refinement and amazing pen and ink.
Mr. Li Zanzhou, born in 1920 in Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, born with a bright nature, since childhood by his mother to love painting; "918" incident, after the Japanese invasion of Northeast China, with his parents moved to Beiping, in 1939 was admitted to the Beiping National Art College to study oil painting, during the period, Mr. Qi Baishi taught Chinese painting at the school, the artistic style of the old man of Baishi, deeply shocked Li Zanzhou, so he had a strong interest and a strong desire to study Chinese painting, the following year, Li Zanzhou changed to Chinese painting, learned from the old man of Baishi to learn freehand flowers and birds, At the same time, he also studied Chinese painting from Mr. Zhou Huaimin, Yu Feimin, Pu Xinhu and other gentlemen, studied brush strokes and small freehand paintings of flowers and birds under Mr. Huang Binhong, and studied the theory of Chinese painting under Mr. Huang Binhong... When Mr. Zhang Daqian went north to Beijing, he asked Mr. Daqian to study and joined the "Chinese Chemical Research Society" in Beiping (Beijing) in 1940. Li Zanzhou's calligraphy was appreciated by Mr. Luo Fukan, one of the "Four Great Scholars" in Beijing at that time, and was particularly valued by Mr. Luo, and in 1941, under the recommendation of Mr. Luo Fukan, Li Zanzhou became the last disciple of Mr. Wang Xuetao during the Republic of China period, and officially studied under Wang Xuetao, whose skills were increasing day by day, like a fish in the water, And Li Zanzhou was already famous in the capital at this time. In 1944, under the auspices of Mr. Wang Xuetao, Li Zanzhou married Yan Jiaxiang, the second daughter of Yan Bolong.
"Double Life"
"Dajitu"
From 1952 to the 1980s, due to historical reasons such as the "May Third Town Rebellion" and the "Cultural Revolution", Li Zanzhou was treated unfairly and began a life of more than 20 years of hardship and embarrassment. During this period, his wife and daughter were separated, and in 1969, Mr. Li returned to his hometown in northeast China alone from Beijing, until he was about 65 years old and picked up a paintbrush, and the pen worked tirelessly, and it was more than 30 years of time, creating many commendable works, until he died at the age of 95, leaving a rich artistic legacy to future generations. Therefore, it is not too much to say that Mr. Li Zanzhou is a "hermit" in the history of Chinese painting.
95 years of life course, more bumps than happiness, suffering is greater than happiness! All this did not make Mr. Li Zanzhou lose his vision and yearning for art, and he was eager to use his paintbrush to realize aesthetic creation and realize his artistic dream. His art is like "old trees and new flowers", withered and withered art trees, blooming new flowers, in the elegant, meticulous, exquisite pen and ink, color expression, the painter's aesthetic charm in the pursuit of "text out of nature" and "seeking words and looking for images, seeking images and looking at meaning", reached the free apparent realm of "freehand" - "like the clouds flowing water, the beginning is not fixed, but often do what should be done, often stop at what must be done" and in "deep and civilized, full of vigor and god" in the expression of "spirit is refreshing, the style of writing is clear" and "love and harmony" Aesthetic realm and inner tension.
"Fragrant Overflow Qingyuan"
As a painter who has been fully trained, Mr. Li Zanzhou's flower and bird painting art, its aesthetic orientation is clear: Mr. Li is good at converting the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature into pen and ink words into paintings, integrating the bitterness of life experience into the background color of the work, and thus obtaining a perception, so that the work is full of pure spiritual atmosphere, in the "small to see the big", "to see the strange in the peace" in the awe-inspiring wind bone, and the pen and ink interpretation can always cross the boundary beyond one-sidedness, and in the contemplation, the pen and ink inject emotion into the aesthetic realm; undoubtedly, to achieve this, It is necessary to have the most exclusive "foreseeable spirituality" of art; the so-called "foreseeable spirituality", which is higher than a certain "metaphysical" pen and ink skills and specific techniques; because the role and existence of spirituality will eventually enable art to achieve "first observation" of pen and ink, and this "first contemplation" is consistent with the connotation of "intending to write first" and "the craftsman who looks alone, peeps at the image and transports the pound".
Mr. Li Zanzhou and his art, fundamentally, express and render a beautiful dream, and at the same time he is a dream awakener; although he is high and alone, he is full of poetry and open-minded feelings; therefore, although he is a "hermit" of the "historical album", he has become the forerunner of "spiritual homecoming" with his artistic achievements, and he regards "spiritual homecoming" as the above-all goal of life, and never abandons it, so he has fixed his simple but noble figure in history and time.
"Screening Day"
Mr. Li Zanzhou's works are rich in the strengths of all families, not only wang Xuetao's spiritual beauty, but also Li Kuchan's clumsy strength, and even the shadow of ancestors such as the old man Bai shi, and a generation of old artists represented by Li Zanzhou have played an important role in the development of Chinese painting. Mr. Li Zanzhou and his works have become a glorious page in the annals of history; for this reason, he will become our eternal memory and unforgettable teacher, a model for life!