In the vague jungle, there are three or two girls, or flute, or flute, as if there were voices flowing out of their dreams. This is a common picture in Ding Cheng's works. Calm, indifferent and calm, like a complaint by Song Like, are the characteristics of Ding Cheng's figure painting. Being a mirror and depicting the mood through research is Ding Cheng's specialty, knowing ink painting and experimenting effectively. The absorption of color and composition of western paintings proves the painter's good artistic sense, while the cultural sense of the picture shows the painter's comprehensive cultivation.
Li Dingcheng graduated from the undergraduate and postgraduate classes of Chinese painting in Nanjing Art Institute, and is a first-class artist. Worked in Rong Baozhai headquarters of China Fine Arts Publishing House. Ding Cheng's pursuit is persistent and belongs to the kind of person with strong will and full personality. A painter's ideal goal is clear, his self-awareness is clear, at the same time, his spiritual needs are strong, and his personality tension is expanding rather than shrinking. Coupled with the continuous accumulation, enterprising and hard work in culture, this painter has great prospects. In today's painting world, if painters are divided into promising and hopeless, Li Dingcheng belongs to the former.
Only with high talent and courage can we talk about creation, and the value of creation depends on knowledge and skills. Skills and creative consciousness are two concepts. Skilled painters are not necessarily creative. There are examples of the "Four Heavenly Kings" in history, but it is difficult to achieve greatness only by creating consciousness without skill and ugliness. Smart artists understand this truth, and they have won three flavors. Therefore, the works he shows to the channel are always creative, that is, his personal style is obvious, and his ink painting is skillful, pleasing to the eye and pleasing to the eye. I think, with the growth of age and the advancement of years, Ding Cheng's paintings may change from feminine to magnificent, from graceful to profound. —— Cheng Dali (director of China Artists Association, editor-in-chief of China Fine Arts Publishing House, and judge of the national art exhibition).
I like his paintings very much. Every time we look at his paintings, we say nothing, but I know in my heart that he paints well! Whether it is lines, pen and ink, colors, people, animals and scenery, there is an intriguing and distinctive artistic conception in his hands. Strange risks have knots, but many are not delayed. See smart everywhere, leisurely. Obviously, his deliberation and wisdom are valuable to the painter.
Everyone has his own way, but not many people really enter a "tune" No wonder today's paintings are often upside down, regardless of good or bad. Choppers and axes have become a sought-after job, and the most important thing is making, and making is often forgotten. Indeed, it takes hard work to be good at one form and one stroke. However, it is often in difficult times that people have to work hard. This is how Li Dingcheng got here. —— Zhou Jingxin (Professor of Nanjing Art Institute, tutor of doctoral and master students, vice president of Nanjing Art Institute. Director of China Artists Association, Vice Chairman of Jiangsu Artists Association, Standing Committee of Jiangsu CPPCC. )
It is not easy for people to live a relaxed, artistic and profound life. Approaching Li Dingcheng, you will find that his straightforward temperament, unrestrained mood, casual behavior, excitement, expectation, anxiety, constantly looking around, endless fresh expressions in his heart can always make people infected and recognized quickly. This is a typical northern man: rough and generous; It is also the seed of authentic sentimentality: delicacy and sentimentality. He is always used to integrating his understanding of chasing dreams into it, half of which is poured into tea, love and wine for new and old friends, and the other half is activated by clever words and put pen and ink into it, from which he can find a life crutch that he can rely on.
It is interesting to interpret Ding Cheng's ink painting image full of life feelings and feel the true free feelings of human nature. He can let us unload our burdens and increase our confidence in giving up romance.
There are few clear images in the field of vision of romantic painters. When reading Ding Cheng's paintings, you will think of lorca's poems. A knight carries the green fruit of love and runs under the moon. He is like a young blind man looking for light on a spring night, out of a sleeping village and out of the border of the night. Painting is not comforting, but crying with pen and ink is comforting. But it may be wrong. Without comforting each other, he didn't expect his worries to be discovered. Whispering in the night, we know the past that the dreamer has been thinking about, that youth has become the solid core of the work, and that the distant picture has touched our hearts. -Chen Shemin (member of China Calligraphers Association and editor-in-chief of Artist magazine)
I am sure that he is a poet first, and then a painter.
Dream back to the south, pigeons, Qiu Ge in the distance, blowing the song of the wind, the clouds drifting alone, on the water side, still green hills. . . . These poetic and fantastic paintings are fascinating.
I stared at the women in the painting, the classical beauties in colorful clothes, and their charming eyes all contained endless melancholy and melancholy. Tingting lives by the water, playing the piano, playing the flute or meditating. . . I think I understand them. These women who love pain, they all show a sad mood, which is touching. These beauties wandering in the moonlight and dusk, their flutes playing lightly, and their leisurely pace make me, a woman with inner classicism, still listen to the distant nature after many years.
The faint clouds are floating around, and the beauty dreams of returning to the south, recalling and missing the fleeting happiness, floating in the singing of the wind.
When I wrote poetry in my early years, I always tried to write poetry as naturally as breathing. Now, after reading Li Dingcheng's paintings, I believe that he is also an artistic explorer who is aesthetic and advocates nature. His pursuit of perfection is mainly reflected in his paintings, such as Youth Series, Far Songs, Faraway Places, The Sound of the Waves and so on.
Among the painters born after the 1960s, his most outstanding artistic talent comes from his penetrating power and freehand brushwork. In my opinion, he is more like a meditator of the internal order of the world. He indulges in his heart and conveys his feelings with a brush.
Life dances in the painting, and the soul is immortal. Li Dingcheng's birth stems from a China painter's unique understanding of life, his mastery of the universe, his artistic pen to describe everything, his promotion of the soul, and his pursuit of the integration of self-life and ordinary life, thus showing his infinite interest in circulation among landscape figures. -Gao Bei (senior journalist and writer)
Transcendence and Return —— On Li Dingcheng's Figure Painting
Li Dingcheng is a painter of the "new school", and his distance from the "tradition" can be judged at a glance: conscious distortion and exaggeration, psychedelic and exciting colors, rich layout with almost no blank space, and composition with some decorative meanings all show that Li Dingcheng rejects the "elegance" of the tradition and the mediocrity of the secular. Of course, from his paintings, we can find the influence of modern western painting. The "old school" does not agree with this, and the masses will stare at the confused eyes and ask, "Is this' beautiful'?" Therefore, like many young painters, they should be more tolerant psychologically-others are more likely to get universal recognition and praise, while Ding can only be understood in a much smaller circle. Therefore, it is more difficult for Ding Cheng to maintain his artistic self-attachment and the artist's personality. However, this is a figure who tries to transcend tradition in contemporary China drama. As long as "transcendence" is not simply understood as "transcendence", as long as we know that the formation of the so-called "tradition" is actually a historical chain composed of "transcendence" of all sizes, we should applaud this persistence.
In fact, from Ding Cheng's paintings, we can feel a deep return to tradition. Not to mention Ding Cheng's "In that Far Away Place" and "Green Grass and Blue Sky", we can find that Ding Cheng is not indifferent to traditional techniques. In terms of artistic conception, Ding Cheng's paintings are actually "traditional", and Ding Cheng is always pursuing a kind of poetry-a kind of artistic conception of China's classical poems.
Ding Cheng's characters are almost all women, just like China's ancient Song Ci. However, his paintings are not as sad as those of Song Ci, but show an eternal tenderness, a surreal attachment and a dreamlike lingering. Ding Cheng tries to depict a certain character of the characters. The characters in his works are a symbol of poetry and humanity. Therefore, Ding Cheng's painting is by no means a "female theme", and his transformation is precisely to abandon the boring "classical beauty" in form, thus pulling secular obsession out of the low-level interest in appreciating gender beauty and introducing aesthetic focus and association into the whole painting.
Therefore, seeing Ding Cheng's paintings is not only the enjoyment of eyes, but also the touch of the soul, the voice of meaning and the communication of feelings. This is the essence of China's artistic tradition. "Tradition" is not the sum of techniques, but the spiritual connotation. —— Li Changji (distinguished professor, doctoral supervisor, College of Literature, Jiangsu Normal University)
Li Dingcheng and his paintings.
I met Mr Li Dingcheng in the early 1990s.
In order to prepare for the China Contemporary Art Exhibition held in Korea, I went to Yangzhou to choose paintings with Mr. Cui, a famous Korean art critic. At that time, Mr. Li was assigned from the pen industry of Nanjing Art Institute to Yangzhou Chinese Painting Institute for nearly two years, and he was full of high spirits and had already influenced the art world. Teacher Cui and I both appreciate his works and people, and we have become attached since then. Up to now, it has been more than 20 years.
Over the years, I have held many exhibitions at home and abroad, such as "Chinese Painting Trend Exhibition" and participated in many large-scale art fairs. Mr. Li's works have been deeply loved and admired by me, Mr. Cui and many critics and collectors.
Painting is the road to loneliness. Over the past few years, Mr. Li has been quietly pursuing and constantly making progress on his own artistic road, which has perfectly integrated western rigorous realistic techniques, decorative interests and oriental freehand brushwork spirit, and formed his own unique painting style and aesthetic style. He is willing to be lonely, unwilling to pretend to be lofty and unwilling to follow the trend. In the tide of economy and art, he always kept sober about his artistic holy land, stuck to his artistic ideal and built his spiritual home. With the development of painting language and the height of work spirit, it has attracted the attention at home and abroad with its many excellent paintings.
I have long-term contact and profound friendship with many outstanding artists in China's contemporary art world, such as Mr. Li Keran, Mr. Wu Guanzhong, Mr. Zhang Ding, Zhou Shaohua, Jia Youfu, Wang Xijing and Wang Mingming. While collecting and promoting their works of art, they also left a deep impression on their talents. Looking at Mr. Cui's artistic path and studying his paintings, I feel the same way with Mr. Cui, a critic and collector at home and abroad. With his unique artistic style, mature painting language, solid basic skills and comprehensive cultural and artistic accomplishment, Mr. Li Dingcheng is undoubtedly an important painter with influence and pioneering spirit in the field of contemporary Chinese painting. We are full of confidence and expectation for his future. -Shunmin Huang (a famous Hong Kong collector)
Dream of the East
Only with high talent and courage can we talk about creation!
Three Li Dingcheng flavors. Talent, courage, and skillful use of ink and wash. This is what Cheng Dali said.
Whether it is lines, pen and ink, colors, people, animals and scenery, it has an intriguing and distinctive artistic conception in his hands! I like his paintings very much. Every time we look at his paintings, we say nothing, but I know in my heart that he paints well! This is what Zhou Jingxin said.
How many successful people were elected in "Ten Flowers and One House"? Only two talented young people were Li: Ding Cheng and Lao Shi. It's a pity that Lao Shi left in a hurry!
Among the top ten families, the Lee brothers were identified by Li Boan before his death. These are all things from the last century. Now Li Dingcheng is also famous for his fate. Through long-term exploration and cultivation, he gradually changed from emergency to slow, from immature to introverted, from sudden to solid, from busy to idle, from strong wine to clear tea. But the "restlessness" in that bone has never changed.
It is a blessing for the dreamer to be able to make a noise and get rid of reality and weave the brocade in his heart quietly!
"I am a dreamer" is what Li Dingcheng said. -Chen Shemin (member of China Calligraphers Association and editor-in-chief of Artist magazine)