Why are Li Zijian's female oil paintings full of warm maternal feelings? First of all, because the woman in the painting is plump and has become a good wife and mother, it is easy for us to understand that a slightly plump woman looks precocious and often exudes mature femininity. If she is married and has children, she can't hide her strong feminine charm and motherhood. Li Zijian chooses married women and their wives as models to create, and some paintings have children, which further highlights women's maternity.
Secondly, because Li Zijian faithfully restored the appearance of female models in her creation, she only used soft light and shadow effects and warm colors to express the artistic beauty of women in her paintings. Why does she emphasize artistic beauty? There is a simple reason. After all, Li Zijian is creating oil paintings, not photographs. Since he is creating, it is necessary to upgrade the ordinary character scene to a certain position, so that the characteristics of typical character scenes are concentrated on the pictures in a limited space, making the works look more touching. Li Zijian can make the women in the painting full of warm maternal feelings. This touching power comes from Li Zijian's profound understanding of women's life.
In fact, this warm maternal feeling can also be understood as the style of oil painting. At this time, we can have a deeper understanding of the forming factors of female oil painting style of painter Li Zijian, which is related to the painter's growing environment. Growing up in the countryside, Li Zijian is naturally very familiar with the living habits of rural women. The industriousness and simplicity of the women of her mother's contemporaries are evident in Li Zijian. In a word, the living environment creates the artistic style. We can see rural scenes with strong local flavor and simple and kind women in many oil paintings of Li Zijian's "local series" and "letter series", which is a character scene that cannot be described by imagination.