Li Changbai Chinese painting style

Author: Jia Dejiang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: =Li Changbai= Professor at Nanjing University of the Arts, Member of the China Artists Association =Born in Xiacheng Village, Lanxi, Zhejiang in 1916. In 1933, he enrolled in the Painting Department of the National Hangzhou Art College. His Western painting studies were under the guidance of Lin Fengmian, Wu Dayu, and Li Chaoshu; his Chinese painting received instruction from Pan Tianshou, Li Kuchan, Zhang Hongwei, and Wu Fuzhi, greatly improving his artistic skills. In 1939, he graduated and taught successively at Nanhong Art Vocational School, Southwest Art College, Chengdu Normal School, National Art College, East China Art College, and Nanjing University of the Arts. =His works frequently participate in domestic and international art exhibitions and have held solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong, China. His figure paintings such as "Fishing Curtain," and flower-and-bird paintings like "Wind Bamboo and Golden Pheasant" and "Camellia and Longevity Ribbon" are collected by national and provincial-level art museums. His figure and flower-and-bird paintings have been printed into millions of folk-style New Year prints favored by the public. Many of his meticulous brushwork flower-and-bird works, such as "Epiphyllum," "Camellia and Longevity Ribbon," and "Tree Plum," were selected by the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute for international exhibitions. When Deng Yingchao visited Japan for the first time, she selected two of his works, "Peony and Longevity Ribbon" and "Wind Bamboo and Golden Pheasant," as national gifts to present to the Japanese Prime Minister. He has written and published four teaching (monographs) on "Floral Sketch Composition," "Floral Coloring Techniques," "Featherwork Expression," and "Composition Creation," which are highly valued by the education and academic communities.