Wang Lichun was born in Zigong, Sichuan. In the early 1960s, he moved to the ancient capital Luoyang with his family. My father also painted and wrote books, which subtly created his hobby of loving painting and calligraphy, pursuing art and asking for nothing else. As early as the early 1970s, Wang Lichun's works often appeared in art exhibitions and newspapers in middle schools. After graduating from high school, he went to the countryside as an educated youth, worked as a farmer and painted in a vast world, and created a number of works reflecting rural life, which stood out in the provincial art exhibition. After joining the army, he created many excellent works showing the life of the army barracks, which were published in the media such as the People's Liberation Army Daily and won many awards. After leaving the army, he worked as a middle school teacher and an artist in the People's Art Museum. He has created outstanding and influential works such as Between Teachers and Students, We are members of the Communist Youth League, I Love China and Beautiful Mind. After more than 20 years, Mr. Wang borrowed western painting methods and integrated them into Chinese painting, and embarked on his own peony painting road. His traditional Chinese painting peony creation, with its unique artistic language, does have a unique style that combines ancient and modern experiences.
Speaking of painting peony, Mr. Wang is quite touched. He said: it is easy to draw peony, but it is not easy to draw peony well. Because it is difficult, it is difficult to advance. If you can draw peony well, it's easy to draw other flowers and birds. Luoyang, known as the hometown of peony, has more than a thousand peony plants, which are all masters in the country. He said: If you want to paint well, you must first learn to be a man, not for money, not for fame. A painter who paints for money is a painter, and a painter who paints for fame is a layman. His mind is not on painting, and Willie can't draw a picture, let alone draw it well. Mr. Wang Lichun realized from his creative practice that the word "painting with heart" means studying with heart, not simply repeating; Borrow with your heart, sign with your heart, instead of copying it stiffly, create it with your heart, instead of making it up.
The brush and ink technique of traditional Chinese painting can best show the artist's artistic skill. He inherited the tradition, was good at innovation and took his own painting road. The organic combination of dots and lines in his peony paintings benefits from Su Shi's ci and Taoist philosophy that "flowers are like non-flowers", that is, neither more nor less. In his artistic realm, it is a tradition inherited by Wang Lichun to capture the distance between emptiness and reality, ugliness and beauty, clumsiness and cleverness, freehand brushwork and abstraction. His innovation lies in boldly drawing lessons from the way of using light and color in western painting, going deep into it and showing a multi-level sense of light and shade. Drawing lessons from western painting forms in the composition of Holly, we can see through the full composition form from far and near, so that its picture is full of outward tension and limitations! Space shows infinite artistic conception, which is what Mr. Wang often says: Chinese painting must be surnamed Guo, not surnamed Guo. Without losing tradition and full salary, he expresses the painter's aesthetic taste with his unique artistic language, which is extremely rare in the national flower-and-bird painting circle like Mr. Wang. Whether as a famous painter or an ordinary person, Mr. Wang Lichun always insists on a good attitude. He is frank, optimistic and free and easy in everything. He was also persecuted and assassinated by villains. Although he also lost a lot of deserved benefits and returns, he always laughed it off, and the gains and losses were all outside. His life rule is: "draw honestly and be an upright person." "You can lose everything, but not your personality" and "You can't lose anything, but you can't lose your spirit". He is like this in life, and so is painting. He speaks honestly and frankly, and never beats around the bush. He made extensive friends with colleagues in the national painting and calligraphy circles, learned skills, learned modestly and made up for his own shortcomings. Never do what he likes, bluffing. As he often said: "A painter should paint well, and painting should not be limited to status, power, money and so-called packaging, so that his works can speak for themselves." This can be said to hit the nail on the head.
Mr. Wang Lichun, President of Luoyang Chinese Painting Research Institute, Honorary Chairman of China Calligraphy and Painting Society and Visiting Professor of Malaysian Art Institute. In addition to painting, he is also enthusiastic about public welfare. As a democrat, he took an active part in the relief activities for out-of-school children in Luanchuan mountain area organized by Democratic Progressive Party. In order to solve the problem of drinking water for villagers in Wangguduo Village, Xin 'an County, we organized well-known painters and painters in the city to cooperate with Luoyang Radio and Television News and successfully held a charity sale of paintings and calligraphy works. In just two hours, the charity sale donated nearly 60 thousand yuan, which triggered donations from Luobei Steel Plant and many charitable acts, and was widely praised by the media and the masses.
In recent years, Mr. Wang Lichun has been invited to hold solo exhibitions, joint exhibitions, lectures and exchange activities of various paintings and calligraphy in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. His works have been auctioned in Shanghai, Jinan, Guangzhou, Beijing, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and Southeast Asia, and all of them were sold at reasonable prices. At the invitation of Zhong Zhengshan, Dean of Malaysia Art Institute, he held art exhibitions in Kuala Lumpur and Johor successively, which caused a sensation in the local area. Mr. Zhong Zhengshan, a world-famous painter who won the Malaysian Medal of Artistic Merit, praised Yujia: "Painting with characters is the most promising new painter in China", and the famous poet Mr. Wang Guozhen happily wrote an inscription for his paintings: "Wonderful pen makes flowers, Luoyang peony is a must". (Excerpted from Luoyang Radio and Television News in February 2003 13)