Li Xiushi - China Modern Masters Paintings Collection

Author: Jia Dejiang
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Li Xiushi, born in 1933, is from Jinzhou, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1961 and was assigned to the Heilongjiang Provincial Artists Association for creative work. In 1988, he returned to Beijing and served as the Deputy Director of the China Art Research Institute, a member of the China Artists Association, and the President of the Heilongjiang Oil Painting Exhibition. Currently, he is a member of the China Oil Painting Association.
The works "Ancient Road," " auspicious Clouds," "Midnight," "Frosty Morning," "Sunset," "Dusk," and the Palace Gate Tower in "Backlit" from the series, "Palace Gate Tower in the Forbidden City," the lights of the ancient city in "Winter Night," and the towering and magnificent Forbidden City under the scorching sun in "Midday Sun," as well as the stubborn Drum Tower surrounded by white clouds—all present unique styles, brimming with a strong Chinese atmosphere while also emitting Western modernist hues. In the aesthetic pleasure of these works, one perceives the artist's emotions, taking people back to the turbulent years and immersing them in Li Xiushi's ink-bone oil painting world.
From an artistic perspective, the painter abstracts and generalizes the vast world into the structure and rhythm of points and lines, refining and combining them into the contrast and harmony of warm and cool colors, as well as rhythms. By integrating the two painting elements of form and color, he weaves a concerto of lines, a sonata and symphony of colors.