Shuoqing Li (190865438+1October/kloc-0-199365438+February 30th) is a famous painter in China. Tian Yun, a native of Xialou Village, Tuzhai Village, Hui 'an, is from Quanzhou. He has served as director of China Artists Association, creative member of China Traditional Chinese Painting Research Association, deputy director of China Arts and Crafts Society, member of the Standing Committee of Fujian Provincial Political Consultative Conference, executive director of Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of Fujian NLD Painting and Calligraphy Association, president of Fujian Seawater Ink Association, director of the Art Department of Huaqiao University, honorary president of Quanzhou Painting Academy, etc. He was hired as the chief consultant of the "Ink Shadow Society" in Japan.

Chinese name: Shuoqing Li.

Mbth: Li Shuoqing

Nationality: China.

Place of birth: Quanzhou

Date of birth: 1908 65438+ 10/0.

Date of death:199365438+February 30th.

Occupation: painter

Main achievements: Director of China Artists Association.

Masterpieces: Remnant Snow in Taishan Mountain, Clouds in Huangshan Mountain, Tiantai Waterfall, etc.

The life of the character

Study hard in the cold

When Shuoqing Li was young, his family was very poor. He sold vegetables with his father. He loves art and craft, but he can only work and study. 1962 graduated from Quanzhou Xiting Normal School. Shortly after his father died of illness, he set up his own studio in Quanzhou, an ancient city, to make a living by selling paintings. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/927, he was admitted to Shanghai Xinhua Art College with his skillful painting skills, and advanced placement in the western painting class in the third grade. He is diligent and enterprising, and his talent is outstanding. It was appreciated and carefully cultivated by Pan Tianshou and Wang Ge, masters of Chinese painting in the school. He lived up to the teacher's teaching and expectations. He works hard and perseveres. He completed three years of studies with excellent results in just one year. When he graduated from college, he also studied traditional techniques of Chinese painting and Shanghai style, and made his mark at the graduation ceremony of the school.

Travel sketch

After graduating from college, Shuoqing Li worked as an art teacher in middle schools in Hui 'an, Nan 'an, Quanzhou and Xiamen, and as a professor in Haijiang College. In the busy teaching work, he insisted on amateur creation. He made progress in thought, accepted the education of Quanzhou local organizations, took Quanzhou Shangmei Company founded in Quanzhou as the contact point of Quanzhou underground party organizations, supported the revolutionary struggle and made contributions to the revolutionary cause. After the founding of New China, inspired by the literary policy of "Let a hundred flowers blossom and bring forth the new", Shuoqing Li's Chinese painting art has been sublimated to a new height. The fifties and sixties were the golden age of his artistic creation. 1960, when Zhou Yang visited Quanzhou, he instructed Quanzhou Arts & Crafts Company in Shuoqing Li to spend more than three months every year "traveling" and engaging in artistic creation. Therefore, he had the opportunity to climb the rooftop, visit Huangshan Mountain, climb Yandang Mountain, mount Emei, mount Taimu, mount Taishan and mount Lushan, leaving his footprints in many famous mountains and places of interest in the motherland.

Artistic innovation

Through traveling and sketching, his vision is wide open, his skills are greatly improved, and natural scenery shines in his works. Shuoqing Li's masterpiece "Moving Mountains to Fill the Valley" is a large-scale Chinese painting that he went deep into the construction site of yingtan-xiamen railway on 1956, witnessed the heroic image of railway builders, and fought bravely with heaven and earth, and was deeply inspired. After this painting came out, it was well received by domestic art circles. 1958, this painting was selected for the Moscow socialist national plastic arts exhibition. Each participating country only chooses one painting to hang in the central hall of the exhibition hall, and Moving Mountains to Fill the Valley enjoys this honor, which has aroused strong repercussions in the art circles at home and abroad. Wang Chaowen, a famous art critic, commented on this painting and said: "It is a new voice of Chinese painting to take Moving Mountains to Fill the Valley as a Chinese painting, especially as a work that reflects the current reality in China and shows the majestic face of socialist construction in full swing." Cai Ruohong, vice chairman of China Artists Association, pointed out in the Summary of Thirty Years of National Literary Creation: "When I saw the first Chinese painting reflecting reality and innovation (referring to" Moving Mountains to Fill the Valley "), I felt very much that it was a symbol of the rebirth of Chinese painting." Moving Mountains to Fill the Valley is an epoch-making masterpiece created by Shuoqing Li. It is the first new flower in China's contemporary Chinese painting creation, a "new symbol" in the history of Chinese painting creation, and the first "innovation" in China's ancient traditional painting techniques.

In addition, the Wuyi scenery hanging on Diaoyutai in Beijing, the 65,438+000-inch Wuyi spring scenery of Fujian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, the traditional Chinese painting landscape in Zhongnanhai and the six works of China Art Museum are all masterpieces of Shuoqing Li. Shuoqing Li, who is over 80 years old, is still tirelessly depicting the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Hundreds of works fully express the painter's infinite affection for China.

Distribute wealth at the end of life

The painter observes nature with a broad and open mind and a meticulous and sincere attitude. Based on China's traditional painting techniques, supplemented by the perspective and light color techniques of western painting, he integrated Chinese and western painting in one furnace. As a result, Shuoqing Li's unique style, resolute, fresh, vigorous and elegant, contains thousands of feelings and does not shed a ray of face. China Artists Association held a "1960" exhibition of Fujian painters Shuoqing Li, Chen Zifen and Li Gengguo, which was exhibited in Beijing, Shanghai and Fuzhou respectively. Nanjing Chinese Painting Academy and Fujian Artists Association held exhibitions of Huangshan and Taimushan respectively for Shuoqing Li. On 1980, an exhibition of Hong Kong paintings by artists Shuoqing Li and Daquancong was held. Since then, Shuoqing Li's works have been recognized as national treasures and should not be scattered abroad at will. Shuoqing Li is not only a famous contemporary painter in China, but also a famous arts and crafts artist. His innovative bamboo weaving technology, designed by himself, was the first in China, including works such as copper-like bodiless lacquerware and copper-like ceramics, which were exhibited in dozens of countries around the world, earning foreign exchange for the country and being famous at home and abroad. He has been selected into China Celebrity Dictionary, Volume of Contemporary Figures, Who's Who in China, Biography of 100 Modern Painters in China, Modern Historical Figures in Southern Fujian and other books. 1In June, 1992, the Collection of Shuoqing Li Paintings and Calligraphy published by Taiwan Province Artists Publishing House included 196 paintings and calligraphy, which became the first collection of paintings and calligraphy published by mainland painters in Taiwan Province Province. In February, Shuoqing Li died at the age of 86. Before his death, he donated 654.38 million yuan as the fund of Shuoqing Li Fine Arts Foundation. His son Li Kelang is also a painter in China. Li Kelang's work "Crossing the Yellow River" was selected for the first national landscape painting exhibition. His works "Country Road", "Spring Water is Beautiful in the Sky" and "Jiang Yan Spring Rain" were published in national magazines and won awards, which won favorable comments from all walks of life.

Digital chronology

19081June 10, from Quanzhou, Fujian.

19 17, I went to a private school to study.

At the age of eight, I can copy the portrait of 72 sages.

At the age of 9, he can paint seventy-two sages such as Confucius and Mencius vividly;

After that, he was admitted to Quanzhou Xiting Art Normal School, the only art school in Quanzhou. Under the guidance of the western painting teacher, he developed a strong interest in western painting.

After dropping out of school, he set up his own "youth studio" to sell paintings for a living. "Youth Studio" made Shuoqing Li famous in Quanzhou at that time.

1927, admitted to the third grade of western painting department of Shanghai Xinhua Art College with excellent results, and studied under the master of western painting, Mr. Zhu. However, in Shuoqing Li's artistic career at that time, the famous masters of Chinese painting were Liu Haisu, Pan Tianshou and Wang Geyi. I personally pointed out the pen and ink and techniques of Chinese painting, so that he could not only accept Chinese and western painting in the future, but also lay a solid foundation for integrating the modeling methods of western painting into the pen and ink application of Chinese painting.

1928 ——1956, graduated from university, about 20 years old. He has taught in universities and middle schools in Quanzhou, Hui 'an, Nan 'an and Jinjiang. At the same time, he teaches in three schools: Quanzhou Haijiang University, Quanzhou Jianguo Business School and Jinjiang Middle School, and concurrently serves as a teacher of Xiamen Middle School and Xiamen Fine Arts School. Teaching for 28 years.

From 1934 to 1947, Shuoqing Li, who was only 26 years old, successfully created Autumn Going to Shugang, and the youngest one was selected for the Fujian Fine Arts Exhibition. This painting is a combination of Chinese and western painting, mainly Chinese painting, supplemented by western painting, which caused a sensation in the art world of the whole province.

During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he created Japanese Violence Map (65,438+00) and Doomsday of the Traitor (8).

Self-run "Xue Lu" studio, and in Quanzhou published "Fujian Daily" opened a column "Shuo Qing Selling Snow", and began to raise paintings by painting.

1948 China Fine Arts Yearbook published five Chinese paintings, such as To Be Unloaded, Water Mill, Farewell, Effort and Mount Tai Canxue.

Based on his poor life, he created The Poor Family, which was featured on the cover of the most famous Shanghai Fine Arts magazine in China at that time.

1948 On the evening of August 30th, he created more than 20 posters including "The End of Chiang Kai-shek" overnight and posted them on the streets of Quanzhou to welcome the liberation of Quanzhou.

1February, 952, with the theme of supporting the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, he painted "Military and Firewood Transportation", from provincial exhibitions and East China exhibitions to national Chinese painting exhibitions.

From 65438 to 0955, he sketched in Jinjizha, eulogized the failure of socialist construction with pen and ink, and carefully created the magnificent masterpiece of Chinese painting "Breaking the Golden Rooster to Fill the South of Shanxi", which was not only selected for the national art exhibition, but also acquired and collected by China Art Museum. This is the first work of art collected by the state in Fujian Province.

From June 65438 to June 0956, our province began to build the first railway outside the province-yingtan-Xiamen Railway. Shuoqing Li, who is nearly half a century old, led six young painters to sketch on the railway site. I drew hundreds of sketches in seven days. It was not until the draft of 13 that "moving mountains and filling valleys" was completed. This huge Chinese painting is set in Wuyishan, where the mountains are towering, the rocks are abrupt, and the clouds lock the canyon. At the bottom of the canyon, thousands of railway workers are working hard. Moving mountains and filling valleys with construction as the theme shows the majestic face of socialist construction in full swing. This is the new life of Chinese painting.

1957, he thought that there were eight scenic spots in Hangzhou, eight scenic spots in Suzhou and eight scenic spots in Quanzhou (now downtown).

1958 "moving mountains to fill valleys" was selected 1958. The Moscow socialist plastic arts exhibition held in the spring of 1958 was hung in the central hall, which aroused strong repercussions in the art circles at home and abroad. Wang Chaowen, a famous literary critic in China, praised in People's Daily 1958 on August 30th: "Whether Chinese painting can reflect reality, especially socialist construction, has been debated endlessly.

From 65438 to 0959, moving mountains and filling valleys also participated in world art exhibitions held in India and Japan. Shuoqing Li participated in exhibitions in Moscow, New Delhi, Tokyo and Beijing, and all four original works of Moving Mountains to Fill the Valley were collected by China Art Museum as an exception. This painting has also been published in the history of art such as Selected Works of Modern Paintings in China, Selected Works of Paintings in China for Ten Years, and Crystal Collection in China Art Museum. The movie "Walking in the Painting" and "The Scroll of History" also started from "moving mountains to fill valleys".

From 1960 to 196 1, Minister of Culture Zhou Yang went to Quanzhou. When he met Shuoqing Li at the meeting, he said to the main person in charge of the prefectural party committee at that time, "It will take at least three months every year to give Shuoqing Li enough conditions to travel around the mountains. So he visited Mount Tai, Huashan Mountain, Huangshan Mountain, Yandang Mountain, Tiantai Mountain, Taimu Mountain, Lushan Mountain, Wuyishan Mountain and the Great Wall for many times, and created Remnant Snow on Mount Tai, Clouds on Huangshan Mountain, Tiantai Waterfall, Strange Stones on Mount Taimu, Exploration of Wuyishan Scenery, Doubtful Clouds of Flowers and Moon and Spring to the Great Wall.

From 1962 to 1965, he spent three months traveling around Quanzhou, searching for wonders and selecting more than 20 places. Finally, he created eight scenic spots in Quanzhou: Fengshan Chunxiao, East Lake Lotus Fragrance, Hilly Bamboo, Twin Towers Flying, Jade Carpet Wind and Jade Carpet Wind. Fujian People's Publishing House published 800,000 copies four times before the Cultural Revolution.

These works, alone or in cooperation with others, reflect the overseas Chinese's conquest of nature and the construction of a new look of their hometown, such as Breaking the Golden Rooster to Fill the South of Shanxi, Huinv Reservoir, Eight Women Crossing the Sea to Conquer a Desert Island, Aerospace Map, Spring Dawn in the Hometown of Overseas Chinese, Rising at Sea and Going Home for Sightseeing, etc. Most of these works are collected and published by the state.

Shuoqing Li climbed Mount Qingyuan several times a year and painted such well-known Chinese paintings as Spring Dawn in Qingyuan, Ruixiangyan, Tiger Milk Spring, Laojunyan and Mituoyan.

1June 1966 to1June 1967, during the Cultural Revolution, Shuoqing Li was beaten and imprisoned, and his paintings, sketches and antiques were looted. He came up with the idea of drawing plums, and used 12 to draw plums on small rice paper, so as to hone his brushwork and deepen his conception ability. In more than two years, I have painted hundreds of plum blossom Chinese paintings with different rules and structures. Shuoqing Li painted plum blossoms with a sense of left and right, while others painted plum blossoms with only a sense of left and right. His sense of direction was honed by his hard work and pen and ink for more than two years. Later, famous plum blossom works include Plum Blossom Fragrance in Bitter Cold, Three Friends in Cold Year, Red Plum Smells Fragrance, Welcome to Xu, Luofu Crescent Moon, Dongfeng News and so on, all of which were enlarged with small paintings at that time. From painting plums, he also made great efforts to render wisteria, pine trees, daffodils, lotus flowers and grapes. In his later years, his flower-and-bird paintings and landscape paintings have become famous.

1968 lunar calendar 10 October 14 is Shuoqing Li's 60th birthday, so I drew a cedar Chinese painting for my life. His original name was Li Songlin, and his painting was titled "Heavy snow presses pines and cypresses, and pines and cypresses stand tall and straight", which showed the painter's demeanor in adversity.

1969 was detained on the second floor of Quanzhou Arts and Crafts Company for "special suspicion". He dressed neatly and smiled.

1970, the bullpen is closed.

All the wrongs suffered by Shuoqing Li in the Cultural Revolution have been rehabilitated.

198 1 April, a delegation of Chinese businessmen from Singapore visited Quanzhou. 1928 After graduating from university, Mr. Liu Kang, the younger brother and art consultant of the Singaporean President for more than 50 years, specially entrusted Zhou Yingnan and Ye Songying to contact Shuoqing Li in Quanzhou. Zhou Yingnan gave Mr. Liu Kang a western painting depicting the beach scenery in Singapore to Shuoqing Li, and Shuoqing Li also gave Mr. Liu Kang a Chinese painting "Two Towers in the Sky".

198 1 held an art exhibition in Hong Kong, repainting a set of eight scenes in Quanzhou.

198 1 65438+February Hong Kong Huafeng Chinese Products Co., Ltd. held the "Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition with Lin". Shuoqing Li has brought more than 150 landscape and flower calligraphy works, and more than 10 journalists from newspapers, radio stations and TV stations in Hong Kong praised Shuoqing Li as "the first person in modern Chinese painting" through news, interviews, features and comments. Friends from all walks of life from the United States, Canada, France, Italy and Southeast Asia made a special trip to visit Hong Kong. During his stay in Hong Kong, he was also invited to participate in the elegant collection of Hong Kong calligraphy and painting circles, exchanged painting skills with each other, and cooperated with more than 20 Hong Kong painters to draw a huge flower Chinese painting "Colorful". On the spot, Shuoqing Li, as the chairman of Fujian Artists Association, invited Hong Kong's elegant collection of paintings and calligraphy to hold exhibitions and sketch in Fujian.

1June, 1992, Taiwan Province Artists Publishing House published the Collection of Shuoqing Li's Paintings and Calligraphy, including 196 paintings and calligraphy. Tibetan paintings are very popular both inside and outside the island, and Luoyang was very expensive for some time.

During the period of 1992, Shuoqing Li was hired as the chief consultant by the Japanese ink painting and calligraphy society. The ink painting and calligraphy society is the largest painting and calligraphy society in Japan. They had already started to hold Shuoqing Li painting and calligraphy exhibitions in Tokyo, Osaka and other places in Japan, but they could not make it because of Shuoqing Li's unfortunate death.

1in the autumn of 992, he also sketched at the top of Qingyuan Mountain, and finally completed a masterpiece "Looking at Luoyang on Qingyuan Mountain", which captured the main landscapes of Qingyuan Mountain, Huaqiao University where he taught for many years and Luoyang Bridge.

1On the morning of February 28th, 993, two days before his death, President Zhuang of National Huaqiao University visited him at his home. At this time, Li Lao was unable to write an inscription, but personally handed a plum blossom Chinese painting to President Zhuang and entrusted him to hand it over to a director of Huaqiao University living in the Philippines. This is the last painting he gave away when he was alive, and it is also the only painting with no title in his decades of artistic career.

From June 1993 1 1 to a month before his death, he finished his last stroke on the painting table.

1993 65438+died on February 30th.

Childhood legend

Shuoqing Li was originally from the rural area of Tuzhai Town, Hui 'an County. Because of his poor family and difficulties in making a living, his grandparents fled to Quanzhou. Grandpa Li Peiyuan took his son at one end and went south with cotton wool at the other. When passing Luoyang Bridge, my youngest son was hungry. He felt in his pocket and there were only seven coppers left. These seven copper coins are not only the toll from Luoyang Bridge to Quanzhou, but also the livelihood of the family after Quanzhou. Li Peiyuan had to be cruel and cruel, pulling his starving wife and son to continue on the road.

They are experts in growing vegetables in Tuzhai, but it is difficult to rent a piece of land in Quanzhou. After three days of tossing and turning, the family finally arrived at Seya Mountain (the northern part of which was later Quanzhou Agricultural School). Although Mount Seya is called a mountain, it is actually a hill covered with gravel. The shallow one is half a foot thick, and the deep one is two or three feet. This large area is uninhabited wasteland. Li Peiyuan and his wife, relying on their hard-working hands, dug up green vegetable fields on barren land. Just when their family was looking forward to a bright future, the local local tyrants and evil gentry saw an outdoor person openly growing vegetables on their site, so they sent people to grab vegetables in the garden. The court even awarded the cultivated vegetable fields to the locals. The family wants to cry without tears.

Shuoqing Li was born in Seya in September of the lunar calendar. Father Li Qinghui and mother Liu were very happy to see their youngest son's full heaven, dignified facial features and dark and bright eyes. But the first three sons died of illness, and they were also worried about the fourth son, Xiao Shuoqing. His parents named him Li Songlin, hoping that he would thrive on barren land like a pine tree. However, contrary to expectations, the pine tree, which was less than one year old, suddenly became as sick as the previous three brothers. There is no money to see a doctor at home, so I can only feed some boiled water. In this way, until Xiao Shuqing was unconscious, his parents thought he was dead and cried and dragged him to the hut in the corner of the vegetable garden. According to Quanzhou people's custom of burying babies, clay pots should be used as small coffins. Li Peiyuan went to town with tears in his eyes and bought a clay pot, but at that time, the soldiers were in a panic, and it was dusk when Li Peiyuan came home with the clay pot. Another custom of Quanzhou people is that they can't be buried after sunset, so they have the right to put Xiao Shuoqing in a hut. Surprisingly, in the middle of the night, the sound of "wow, wow" came from the morgue cabin. At first, the extremely sad parents thought it was a ghost screaming, and they were too scared to move. Later, the crying became louder and louder. It was really my son's voice, so I took him back and smashed the clay pot. After dawn, the villagers nearby came to see something new and said, "If you survive, you will be blessed."