Online painting and calligraphy works of famous artists appreciation (xxviii)

Yiyan Flying Snow  

1988

89.7cm×52.7cm

Postscript  

I like snow, but never painted a snow scene, now occasionally for the, also know that painting snow must leave more blank, and my habit of using heavy ink habits can not be changed, the more black painting, and finally become a black snow shadow, I also difficult to ridicule.

November of the winter of 1988, the second year of the year wuchen, the next coon, Kechen in the knowledge of the lack of fast

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Li, Kechen

Artwork Appreciation  

Yiyan means black rocks. Snow on black rocks, how spectacular it is!

Li Keran very modestly introduced the process of creating this painting, saying that he had no experience in painting snow, although he knew that it should be left blank, but still follow the custom of painting more and more black. Finally, had to mix some white powder to remedy. The work will be named "Yiyan Flying Snow", or a self-deprecating intention. The name of the fast also used the three words "know the lack of fast". In his later years, Li Keran called himself a "white-haired schoolboy" and named his room "Sense of Absence", which indeed shows his spirit of modesty and self-reflection, but on the other hand, Li Keran was confident that he had created the Li School of landscape and represented Eastern art (see "Li Keran on Art"). Both modesty and self-confidence are important to an artist, and they complement each other.

This work is indeed heavily inked, leaving little white space, but the snow is still very strong. The composition still features a large mountain on the front, a village at the bottom, and a pine forest and a path in the near distance. The steepness of the mountains and the overlapping peaks are in harmony with the cold air that fills the canvas.

(Lang Shaojun, published in Li Keran Art Research Series - Rediscovery of Nature, 2007)