Li kuchan Memorial

Li kuchan Memorial

Li kuchan memorial hall is located in Wanzhu garden in Baotu Spring Park, Jinan City, Shandong Province. The finished products of the front, East and West courtyard are arranged in a zigzag pattern. The garden is located in the West. The memorial hall covers an area of 12000 square meters and has 18 exhibition rooms. More than 400 pieces of his posthumous works and calligraphy and painting relics collected during his lifetime are displayed throughout the year.

brief introduction

Li kuchan Memorial

Located in Baotu Spring Park of Jinan City, Wanzhu garden, covering an area of 21 mu, is an ancient courtyard with the style of Jiangnan courtyard, Beijing Palace and Jinan courtyard. It was built in the Yuan Dynasty and got its name because of the bamboo in the garden. The garden has three courtyards, compact structure, exquisite layout, 13 courtyards, 186 houses, five bridges and four pavilions. In June 1986, Li kuchan memorial hall was opened in Wanzhu garden. There are 14 exhibition rooms in the memorial hall, displaying more than 400 paintings and calligraphy works. In addition, there are also some ancient paintings and calligraphy collected by Mr. Li kuchan and his life photos, letters, etc. Li kuchan: from January 1899 to June 1983, he was born in Gaotang, Shandong Province, and was a flower and bird painter. Representative works include "orchid bamboo", "Mohe", "midsummer picture" and so on. He used to be a member of the Council of the Academy of Chinese painting, a director of the Chinese Artists Association, and a professor of the Department of Chinese painting of the Central Academy of fine arts.

Features of the memorial

Layout of Memorial Hall

Located in the west of Baotu Spring, the Memorial Hall (wanzhuyuan) was built in the Yuan Dynasty. It is named for its bamboo abundance. It covers an area of more than 12000 square meters, with a total construction area of 4782 square meters and a total height of 17.9 meters. There are three courtyards in the garden. The front courtyard, the east courtyard and the West courtyard are arranged in a zigzag pattern. The garden is located in the West with compact structure and exquisite layout. There are three courtyards, 186 houses, five bridges and four pavilions. There are also many kinds of flowers and trees such as papaya, pomegranate, Magnolia, Xiuzhu, Cuibai, Bajiao, etc. in the park, and some famous springs such as Shuiquan, donggaoquan, Baiyun Quan, etc. In June 1986, Li kuchan memorial hall was opened in Wanzhu garden, with 18 exhibition rooms and more than 160 houses.

Memorial Building

The memorial hall is an ancient courtyard with the style of Jiangnan courtyard, Beijing Palace and Jinan courtyard. The building has the charm of Han and Tang Dynasties. The roof is in the form of veranda, and the exterior wall is decorated with green brick. There are stone carvings, wood carvings and brick carvings on the stone railing, gate pier, lintel and wall. The carvings are exquisite and lifelike, which are the "three wonders" of wanzhuyuan. In 1986, it was designated as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. In 1993, it was included in the collection of Chinese traditional residential buildings. Before opening, the memorial hall was designed by Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute, and the interior decoration design was carried out by Tsinghua Gongmei Environmental Art Design Institute. The interior decoration part continues the style of building eaves. On the basis of meeting the modern display function, it uses simple modern design techniques; on the color, it takes black, white and gray as the basic color, combined with new technology and new materials, fully interprets the traditional elements into a visual form suitable for modern people's aesthetic habits. The memorial (wanzhuyuan) is an ancient and beautiful work of art.

Museum Collection

More than 400 pieces of his posthumous works and calligraphy and painting relics collected during his lifetime are on display in the memorial hall, including the painting of red plum blossom, the painting of clear snow, the painting of ink bamboo, the painting of midsummer, etc. Among them, the painting of Songying and red plum blossom in full bloom are the best works of the painter in his later years. In addition, the couplet "the most holy and boundless is to enrich the world, and the prosperous and virtuous is to descend to the world" is the last work of the painter. There are dozens of eagles, herons and other paintings in the museum. At the age of 84, Li kuchan painted a huge painting of midsummer, covering an area of 21 square meters, which is rare in the history of freehand flower and bird painting. Among the collections are the cultural relics rescued by Li Yan during the cultural revolution, the Ming version of Zhouyi and Qianlong's manuscripts Qimen wuzonggui (Qimen dunjia), yuxiaji and Taoist Fangshi's Classics, and Qi Baishi's seals. In addition, some of Li kuchan's ancient calligraphy and paintings, his life photos and letters are also on display. In 2002, Qiu Zhihai, a famous military sculptor, set up an exhibition hall of Qiu Zhihai's black pottery art in wanzhuyuan Apricot Garden. The elegant cultural space here is not only a scenic spot for people to cultivate their sentiment, travel and leisure, but also an art exchange place for study, observation and research.

Painter Li kuchan

The road of Art

Li kuchan (1899-1983), formerly known as Li Yingjie, was named Chao San and Li Gong. Born in

A poor peasant family in liqizhuang, Gaotang County, Shandong Province. In his early years, he studied western painting from Mr. Xu Beihong in the "amateur Painting Research Association" attached to Peking University. He once participated in the May 4th Patriotic Movement in 1919. In 1922, he was admitted to the Western Painting Department of National Beijing fine arts school to study oil painting. In 1923, he became Qi Baishi's first disciple. Old man Baishi gave him a calligraphy saying "bitter Zen (the first painting brush and thought will start from more than one generation, and you can know the quality of a real person if you don't change hands yet"; he thought that "Ying (bitter) is better than me, and Ying is invincible. If you don't have a great reputation when you die old, there will be no ghosts and gods.". In 1930, he was employed by President Lin Fengmian as a full-time professor of traditional Chinese painting in Hangzhou. He went deep into life to sketch, and organized his works and creations with freehand brushwork and ink. He integrated Western sculpture, painting methods and spirit into traditional Chinese painting teaching. He took the lead in introducing Beijing Opera into art teaching as "the integration of traditional aesthetics and culture and art". He personally appeared on the stage and expressed his own experience. Just as the morning post commented at that time, "this famous Mr. Li kuchan is the pioneer of the creative school in the northern art world in recent years." After Beijing was occupied by the Japanese aggressors in 1937, he resolutely went to take it and took part in the underground Anti Japanese war. He practiced the oath of "personality first, painting style; so-called personality - patriotism first" which he advocated all his life. In 1946, Xu Beihong employed him as a professor of Beiping art college. After 1950, he was a professor of traditional Chinese painting in the Central Academy of fine arts. His works inherit the fine tradition of Chinese painting, absorb the techniques of Shi Tao, Badashan people, Yangzhou painting school, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi and other predecessors, combine Chinese and Western techniques, infiltrate ancient methods, and develop their own unique characteristics in the freehand painting of flowers and birds. The world of flowers and birds in Li kuchan's works is rich, plain and wonderful. After the changes, he became a master of Chinese freehand brushwork.

Artistic achievements

Mr. Li kuchan is an outstanding contemporary painting and calligraphy artist and art educator in China. He has been engaged in art creation and art education for more than 60 years. He often painted on pine, bamboo, plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, stone, lotus, myna, cormorant and eagle. With his unique aesthetic point of view and rich techniques of expression, he created many artistic images with both form and spirit. The flowers and birds in his works have some realistic elements, but they are not purely objective descriptions of natural objects, but highly condensed re creation. His brushwork is simple and unadorned, and masculine in natural implication. His brushwork is vigorous and unadorned. His brushwork is concise and full of interest. Pen and ink are bold and unrestrained, vigorous and majestic. His ability to control pen and ink and freehand brushwork is amazing. For him, the bigger the picture is, the more free he will be. His works, especially in his later years, are more and more simple, vigorous and vigorous, and have achieved the artistic effect of "simplicity and complexity". In the field of Chinese freehand brushwork, it is known as "Nanpan (Tianshou) and Beili (kuchan)". Li kuchan's eagle, with vigorous and powerful strokes, integrates the characteristics of eagles, vultures and other similar birds, exaggerates and deforms in a very personal style, and is one of the most famous personal representative materials in modern painting circles, such as "Qi Baishi's shrimp; Xu Beihong's horse; Li Keran's cow; Huang Zhou's donkey". Li kuchan is not only an expert in drawing eagles, but also an expert in drawing egrets. His paintings of egrets are not only unique in style and majestic, but also the painter who paints the most egrets. There are more than ten kinds of herons, egrets, and cattle egrets in the paintings. Unfortunately, because of the name of the painted eagle, the influence of the heron is far less than that of the painted eagle. Graduated from Beijing National College of Arts in 1925, he has been engaged in Chinese painting education in Beijing Normal School, Baoding second normal school, Hangzhou college of Arts and other schools. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he was a professor in the Department of Chinese painting of the Central Academy of fine arts, a member of the Academy of Chinese painting, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

Address: wanzhuyuan, Baotu Spring Park, Lixia District, Jinan City, Shandong Province

Longitude: 117.015885

Latitude: 36.659864

Tel: 0531-86101423

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