After the death of its founders, Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng and Chen Shuren, the masters of Lingnan School, such as Guan Shanyue, Li Xiongcai, Zhao Shaoang and Yang Shanshen, continued to hold high the banner of Lingnan School, affecting the whole painting circle in South China. Unfortunately, they have died one after another.
since childhood, Liu Chuncao has been influenced by the calligraphy style of Nanping, a famous Confucian scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, and won the true biography of his teacher Chen Shuren. In addition, his painting style is different from that of Guan Shanyue and Li Xiongcai, the main disciples of No.2 High School, and he is unique in Lingnan painting school.
Painting with books is vigorous
Liu Chuncao once said in the preface to a collection of paintings: "Youth is a period of study, printing a book, writing scenery to get the truth, and reciting Tang poetry and Song poetry frequently, so that Mo Yun can get rid of vulgarity at the bottom of the pen." Liu Chuncao has won the true meaning of the same origin of calligraphy and painting. His paintings are not intended to inherit the re-rendering of Lingnan School of Painting and water impact's technique of hitting powder, but are intended to seek momentum by composition, see the charm of writing, and reflect each other with pen and ink. No matter the center, flank, slant and reverse, they can penetrate the back of the paper, and they are the pioneers of Lingnan School of Painting who consciously return to the tradition of pen and ink. His works, such as the landscape painting "Song Gu Ming Quan Tu" and the flower-and-bird painting "A Thousand-Li Tu", are strong in brushwork, concise and general, unrestrained and brilliant in Mo Yun, which shows everyone's atmosphere. It is no wonder that the executive vice chairman of China Artists Association commented in Liu Chuncao's Painting Collection: "Professor Liu Chuncao, his rich and meticulous brushwork is rare in Lingnan Painting Department."
Mr. Liu Lao, who is old, told the author that he has repeatedly studied the axe chopping of Ma Yuan and Xia Gui in the Southern Song Dynasty and the ink splashing method of Wang Qia in the Tang Dynasty, trying to make his works more dripping and create a new page for Lingnan painting school.
The bone brush takes the shape of lines
Mr. Chen Shuren once said: "Composition is the most important part of painting, which belongs to the aspect of formal beauty. The organization of lines, the coordination of shapes and the distinction between shades." Every morning, Liu Chuncao must learn from his teacher to practice pen and ink as an "old lesson", and master skillfully the strength, weight, density, movement, and dry and wet changes of brush lines. Like his teacher's works, most of his paintings are based on lines, with less rubbing. In giving full play to the expression of lines, sometimes he uses pens to disperse the front to enhance the sense of vicissitudes and richness of the picture. His work "On the Nile", which won the "Asian Art Award" in South Korea, is painted with bold and unrestrained lines and has a strong writing flavor. His new works "Uncle Gao Feng" and "Full Bloom" all exert the tension of lines to the extreme, whether it's a thin double hook or an uninhibited boneless one. Whether it's a thick red cotton or a pale green bamboo, the lines can be harmonious and unified.
Nature sends love to a teacher
Mr. Chen Shuren thinks: "Sketching is the basis of painting, and you can sketch and then there is something in the painting." He practiced the artistic life of "reading thousands of books and walking Wan Li Road" all his life. Liu Chuncao learned from his teacher. He said this in the preface to the collection of paintings: "After moving to North Borneo, it took more than ten years to build a Chinese university on the mountain, and the children became talented and had no worries, so they traveled around the world, visited exhibitions and gave lectures, and went through the second stage of middle age." He traveled more than half of the world in his middle age, traveling, giving lectures, collecting ideas and creating. The local customs and customs and the myriad hills and valleys of nature all turned into colorful ink pictures. He painted American Grand Canyon, Egyptian Pyramid, Niagara Waterfall, Malta Island in the Mediterranean Sea, Mountain of Malaysia, Tiandu Peak in Huangshan Mountain, etc. with the brush and ink of Chinese painting, and then returned to China in his later years to paint his hometown. In June, 26, the first peak in the world, a masterpiece officially collected in the Great Hall of the People, is his new work after he went to Mount Everest in the Himalayas to experience life. This painting is magnificent and distinct, and it has a sense of awe of the Chinese nation.
The pure son returns to the Chinese complex
It is a portrayal of Professor Liu Chuncao's life to stand on a three-foot platform with a brush and remain uncorrupted. It is Liu Chuncao's long-cherished wish to return to Lingnan, a famous overseas Lingnan painting school. In front of the bamboo garden where he lives, the author saw a couplet: "Birds and birds are close friends, and pine and bamboo are my home". The temperament of a literati can't help but think of the poem of his mentor Chen Shuren: "Where the western hills don't enter poetry, when it rains, it rains and snows, my life has no other wish, and I have to be a painter in the south of the Yangtze River."
Liu Chuncao often says to people, "I have taken a lot of boats in my life, but there is no thief boat like Shangming Heli." He is indifferent to fame and fortune, loves China, and pays attention to the development of Lingnan painting school. It is no wonder that Chen Yongqiang, director of the Lingnan Painting School Memorial Hall in Guangzhou, said in the article "Xinxin Chuncao Dyes Chunyang-Salute to Mr. Chuncao": "Artistic creation is a manifestation of personality, and the style establishes the connotation of personality. For example, Lao Tzu said that water is good for all things, and it is better to have a future." In April, 27, Liu Chuncao held the "Charity Exhibition of Raising Education Funds for the School for the Children of Macao Workers" in Macao, and raised 3.1 million yuan, all of which were donated to the school, showing his master style.
His works are of little value, but now he is very old, and he is still clean. He has lived abroad for 5 years, not afraid of anti-Chinese power, and has gone through hardships to promote Chinese culture; He is already enjoying the infinite scenery abroad, and seventy years of age resolutely returns home alone ...