Jia Youfu's landscape paintings have a profound artistic conception, and he studied under Li Kuchan, Li Keyan, Ye Qianyu and other masters of Chinese painting.
In 1941, Jia Youfu was born in a peasant family in Suning County, due to his poor birth and many sisters, he dropped out of school at a very young age, helping his parents to do some farm work to reduce the burden on the family, and when he saw his classmates at school holding drawing paper in their hands, he walked over and hoped to draw it, so the two drew a painting similar to "graffiti" on the drawing paper.
When the same village and his age friends envy others can go to school, young Jia Youfu did not give up on himself, he always took out waste paper at night to draw on it, a painting is most of the night, he likes to paint in the field, watching the cows playing and playing, he will use a brush to draw down, see the distant mountains and rivers, he will stop to watch, at night in the waste paper to try to practice pen, over time, his parents see that he has an obsessive liking for painting, so he sent him to school.
In 19560, After graduating, Jia Youfu was admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and when he studied at CAFA, he met several mentors who changed his life, among which Li Kejian and Li Kuchan pointed out the way in his life direction and artistic direction, and his creative style was almost consistent with the two mentors, reaching the realm of the unity of heaven and man.
Li Kuchan and Li Keyan are both masters of the animation world, and their works are loved by the majority of people, among which Li Keyan's paintings sell for countless prices, but there are always many people who think that his paintings are "peasant paintings", "paintings that cannot be admired by contemporary people."
"Peasant painting" refers to a painting that is close to rural life, adopts the freehand painting method on a large scale, and partially depicts scenes such as people, agricultural busyness, and life, but some people feel that such paintings are contrary to this era and cannot be integrated with this era.
In an interview with Jia Youfu, the host asked: "Why do you paint peasant paintings, is it because it is simple or related to the teacher," Jia Youfu said very calmly: "Life is a painting," which won a round of applause.
When some people are still struggling with peasant painting to push Chinese culture backwards, Li Keyan, Li Kuchan, Jia Youfu and other works prove that the best is in life, "peasant painting" is actually not a farmer, but a witness of the times, he transcended life and is rooted in life, some paintings need to go to a lifetime to see, life is picturesque, painting is like life.
Jia Youfu's landscape paintings are magnificent and far-reaching, in his paintings you can see the atmosphere of the motherland's landscapes, and you can see the scenes of the hard-working people's labor, and in the atmosphere of the vertical and horizontal is the people, so that people can not forget for a long time after seeing it, which is why he said that life is a painting, and he just painted it, "peasant painting" is not a peasant at all.
Some people in order to ask for a painting of Jia Youfu, do not hesitate to spend thousands of dollars, but people are afraid of being famous, many experts do not understand the painting but have to click a few words, when they see Jia Youfu's paintings by the majority of the people liked, the pen sharp turn is praise, but these paintings have never entered their hearts.
Jia Youfu's paintings in the atmosphere of the vertical and horizontal and do not lose the yearning for life, in addition to the vivid peasants under his brush, more is the yearning for life, the expectation of the future, beware into the painting, painting into life, you and I are farmers, all live in the "peasant painting".
Many people feel that peasant paintings have no foundation and cannot be taken out. Is this really the case with farmer painting? When we are still pursuing a higher realm of painting, peasant painting has become synonymous with not seeking progress, but peasant painting is often more able to enter people's hearts, because the most difficult thing to paint is "peasant painting." ”