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The Hundred Steps of the Wu Gorge

1956

56cm×44cm

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Hundred Steps of the Wu Gorge

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Put in the subtlety, Kecheng

Artwork Appreciation

This painting is a sketch of a scene on the way to the Three Gorges. The towering 100-step staircase and steep cliffs in the painting highlight the word "danger".

Since 1956, when Li Keran was 49 years old, he went on an eight-month long sketching trip to Sichuan and walked the entire Three Gorges on foot, sometimes taking a whole day to walk the mountains. "The three gorges of Badong are long, and the apes sing three times and stain their clothes with tears." The area around the Hundred Steps is famous for its dangerous paths in ancient times, which are very narrow and narrow mountain climbing paths along the river. Below is the rapids of the Fear River, and the waves roll over. Looking down on the river, dizzy, many people dare not walk, the painter walked down the hundred steps level by level, deeply experience this "dangerous" word, straight to the bottom of the stone level. It was not easy for him to stand on his feet in such a dangerous place, but he still carried out serious and meticulous sketching and creation of the scene, so that he could be said to be deeply in its danger and fully in the realm.

In the painting, a hundred-step ladder goes up to a high place and deep through the mountainside, as if it falls steeply into a ravine. Another strange and dangerous path, spanning one or two hills ...... extends infinitely beyond the painting. In the middle of layer after layer of peaks, in the depths of white clouds, on the dangerous path, people carry baskets and carry burdens, walking calmly and freely. Here it can be said that "all words of scenery are words of emotion". The portrayal of the mountains is a tribute to people, and the national character of the people is embedded in the appearance of nature. The layout of this picture is so dangerous and steep that the mountain is high into the clouds, making people look up.

Kechen paints both "what he sees" and "what he knows" and "what he thinks", and the artist's painstaking management is what makes the picture so moving and inspiring, giving people a sense of "danger and It is only because of the painstaking work of the artist that such a moving picture is formed that one feels a sense of "danger is high". (Sun Meilan, published in 1993 in "The Soul of the One Who Wants - The Art World of Li Keran")