In the group of contemporary military artists, Sun Lixin is a representative of long-term diligence, unremitting exploration, and firm artistic ideals and unique artistic talents in the accumulation of creation. A large number of his achievements in the creation of military themes and oil painting landscapes allow people to see the solid footprints he has formed in his military artistic life and oil painting research.
Sun Lixin has the ideological quality of being down-to-earth, sincere and simple. The cultural conditions of reform and opening up and the development of Chinese oil painting inspired him to be full of enthusiasm and ideals for oil painting art, so he established a stable artistic goal, carefully studied the oil painting experience of his predecessors and humbly accepted the artistic guidance of his teacher. As a military painter, he took devoting himself to the cultural construction of the army as his primary responsibility, invested a lot of effort in the creation of military-themed oil paintings, and strived to explore the artistic innovation of military-themed paintings in the new era on the basis of carrying forward the excellent traditions, and pursued the organic combination of artistic thought and expressive language, and the unity of artistic sociality and self-artistic personality.
Adhering to the artistic concept of realism, Sun Lixin insists on being close to life in his creation, whether it is to express military history or depict the contemporary style of the people's army, he strives to go to the scene of history and reality, extracts the theme from the feeling of history and the experience of reality, tempers the concept, scrutinizes the management, uses the grand visual structure to unfold the specific scene of history, shapes the shape of the characters with novel perspectives and in-depth portrayals, and pays spiritual tribute to the revolutionary history, heroic figures, ordinary soldiers and ordinary people in the modeling. In the narrative of the monumental work, he pours out his agitated contemporary feelings. He is good at grasping the scene structure of large-scale works, creating the rhythm and rhythm of the picture vision, forming a spectacular whole through the scheduling of space and the shaping of group portraits, and repeatedly deepening the processing of details and the portrayal of individual images, so that the works present fascinating connotations. Jin Ge Iron Horse, strong and fierce, rich color, highlighting the spirit, the heroes and soldiers he portrayed, especially reflect the feelings of the great era and the feelings of contemporary military painters.
Sun Lixin's military career is also a traveling career. Over the years, in addition to his large-scale thematic creations, he pursued landscape paintings, which took him to the northwest, northeast and south. This is not only a spiritual journey to feel nature and nourish the heart, but also a practical journey to study skills and hone language. From the "sketching" of landscapes to the "creation" of landscapes, he naturally formed his own colors and brushstrokes, became more and more keen in his observation of nature, and paid more attention to the expression of artistic conception in concrete modeling styles. He is particularly fond of the scenery of his hometown in the north, and the land of his hometown that he sings about repeatedly overflows with a sincere sense of home in the vast silver world.
Devote yourself to history and draw into the picture; Facing nature, poetry surging. The thematic creation of the military and the landscape painting of the journey have formed an internal relationship that complements and complements each other in Sun Lixin's creation. Through the creation of large-scale themes, he has a kind of "big painting" consciousness, which naturally penetrates into his landscape structure and space, so his landscapes are rich in the landscape and full connotation of "big painting", and the poetic style he forms in landscape oil paintings makes his thematic creations exude the brilliance of humanistic concern. In the localization and reconstruction of Chinese oil painting and the exploration of Chinese style of oil painting, Sun Lixin is making his own contributions.
(Text/Fan Di'an)
Creation site
Sun Lixin in the studio
Work appreciation
We will definitely be back
400X220cm 2005
Detail of the work
Detail of the work
Walk through the Min Mountain
320X180cm 2002
Detail of the work
Detail of the work
Detail of the work
Ode to the Plateau
400X220cm 2008
Yang Jingyu
290X220cm 2005
Detail of the work
National vanguard
200X80cm 2015
Love Xibaipo
270X200cm 2010
Battle of Pingjin - Huishi Jintang Bridge
Sun Lixin, Bai Zhan Wang, Dou Hong, 445X220cm, 2009
Sketch draft
Detail of the work
Detail of the work
guarantee
280X160cm 2014
Fierce battle against Pine Bone Peak
160X250cm 1999
Northern Shaanxi years
250X180cm 2013
The song of the snow-capped mountains
400X150cm 2016
"129" Movement
280X180cm 2014
In 1938, the Lunan Guoli Ji tragedy
130X180cm 1987
backbone
270X200cm 2006
close relatives
220X190cm 2009
Detail of the work
Golden armor dust
270X200cm 2004
Green years
160X160cm 1997
Wind and snow youth
190X160cm 2014
Transition
180X180cm 2004
Devoted himself to writing Capital
300X280cm 2017
Detail of the work
Genghis Khan and the Mongolia Iron Horse (sketch)
Genghis Khan and the Mongolia Iron Horse (Sketch)
Northwest Wind Collection
Material (1)
Material (2)
Materials (3)
Detail of the work
Detail of the work
Genghis Khan with the Mongolia Iron Horse
530X270cm 2016
Collect materials for Guardian of the Plateau
Detail of the work
Detail of the work
The patron saint of the plateau
800X300cm 2017
(Source: Painting and Distance)
Artist Profile
Sun Lixin, born in Dandong, Liaoning Province in 1955, graduated from the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts in 1989 and from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. He used to be the director of the Art Creation Office of the Military Museum and a member of the 34th Oil Painting Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association. He is currently a first-class artist of the Military Museum, a director of the China Oil Painting Society, a member of the exhibition qualification review committee of the National Art Museum of China, a distinguished artist of the Oil Painting Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, a curatorial member of the Beijing International Biennale, and a member of the National Major Theme Art Creation Committee of the China Artists Association.