Online painting and calligraphy masterpieces appreciation (twenty-seven)

Crane Pavilion  

57.6cm×34.5cm

Postscript  

Pavilion of Cranes, Kecheng

Seal  

Li, Youjun Tang

 Artwork Appreciation  

This painting may be related to the crane pavilion in Xuzhou. The story of the release of cranes expresses a kind of return to the wild mood of nature. The painter used this subject matter to express his reverie and his interest in ink. Li Keran's early creation obsession with "ink play" is actually a genius-like sensitivity to ink rhyme. This painting is full of ink interest and ink rhyme, with dry, wet, thick and light reflecting each other; the pavilion and people use burnt ink, ancient and pale; the foreground mountains and rocks use thick and heavy ink, dripping with ink; the distant mountains use a few smears of light ink, transparent and clean. The autumn sky is high and far, and the cranes are flying alone. The cranes and the clouds are so idle that they are connected to the gods of a thousand years, and they are swimming with the ancients. (Collated by Wang Luxiang in August 2001)