LI HUASHENG (born 1944)

LANDSCAPES

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LI HUASHENG (born 1944)
Landscapes
A set of two scrolls, mounted for framing, ink and colour on paper
Each scroll measures 17½ x 24¼in. (44.5 x 61.5cm.)
a) Silent Night in Meditation
Inscribed and signed: at Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dated 1987, third month
b) Fishing
Inscribed and signed: Painted while visiting America, Li Huasheng Dated 1987
Two seals of the artist, of which one: Hua Sheng (2)

出版

J. Silbergeld, Contradictions - Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng, University of Washington Press, Seattle, London, 1993

拍品專文

Li Huasheng was born in Changlin, Yibin in Sichuan Province. He started painting at a very early age and studied under painter Yu Jiwu (b.1900), a student of Lin Fengmian himself, and under Zeng Youshi and Guo Manchu. Li represents the first generation of Chinese artists raised and trained in the People's Republic of China. In the 1960's his artistic style grew to incorporate Maoist propaganda, but during the Cultural Revolution, he secretly studied forbidden traditional styles. In 1972 he met with painter Chen Zizhuang (1913-1976), who became his foremost mentor. Studying a wide range of styles, such as Western-style life drawing, oil painting, watercolour and traditional Chinese painting, Li has become one of Sichuan's foremost artists. Exhibitions of his work include a one-man show at Hanart Gallery in Hong Kong and an important exhibition in the U.S.A., part of the touring exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People's Republic of China.