Li Xiaoqiang, born in Kaiyuan County, Liaoning Province, 1963. 1983 was admitted to the department of decoration and design of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, 1987 graduated from undergraduate course and worked in the TV drama center of Liaoning TV Station. He has served as a prop, art designer and art designer.

Chinese name: Li Xiaoqiang.

Alias: bald hooligan

Nationality: China.

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Place of birth: Kaiyuan City, Liaoning Province.

Date of birth:1March 963

Occupation: artist, director, painter, writer

Graduate school: Luxun Academy of Fine Arts.

Faith: No.

Representative Works: Yuan Chonghuan, Wilderness, Sugar Ball Train and Bitter and Sweet Days.

Personal experience

Participated in the shooting of TV series Yuan Chonghuan and Mangyuan.

65438-0992, joined Liaoning TV Station Fangzheng TV Film Production Co., Ltd. as the general director, and worked as the planning and director of many film and television advertisements.

1993 set up its own advertising company-Sun Communication. He has cooperated with famous Japanese singer Noriko Sakai, famous actors Zhao Benshan, Sun Feihu, Li Jiachun, Li Chengru, etc. in advertising production, and created the first Chinese lyrics for Noriko Sakai.

65438-0998 worked as a screenwriter and director in the TV drama center of Liaoning TV Station.

In 2003, he began to create glass art and created nearly 100 works. "Glass Art" magazine made a special report on his creative experience and created glass art for many hotels and institutions.

In 2006, he began to create and study contemporary ink painting and created hundreds of works of art.

Personal painting style

His paintings will make you feel the inner struggle of an intellectual. He is miserable and helpless to society. Someone asked: Is the painting of the bald hooligan an experimental ink painting? Is it New literati paintings? Both, none. In his works, there are not only the dripping and diversity of experimental ink and wash, but also New literati paintings's attack and banter on society. He is a painter who walks between inheritance and rebellion and constantly denies society and himself. Although the idea he represents is not recognized by the mainstream society. But he is an objective existence, and his existence makes people know more about the real emotional factors in today's painting. The paintings of bald and stubborn people are a little depressed in style, but they can always inspire you to pay attention to what is happening in the current society. China's ink and wash paintings do not involve industrial themes, which is related to the ideology of traditional literati. Most of them show the literati's Lin Quan-xin thought and sincere view of Taoism, and seldom pay attention to what happens around them. Their works are always fleeting and worthless.

achievements of art

20 1 1 September, the first exhibition of personal contemporary ink and wash works was held in Beijing Blue Gallery. His creative ideas and works have been interviewed and reported by Xinmin Weekly, Shifang Art and Tibetan Painting Guide.

On September 22nd, 20 12, he and Liu Shuyong founded the contemporary ink painting exhibition "Look at the reality and think about yourself" in the academic lecture hall of the Central University of Finance and Economics.

20 1210/month12 was invited to participate in the Sino-Finnish glass art exhibition founded by the Glass Art Committee of China Arts and Crafts Association and Aalto University in Finland, representing Minions and Bird Cage.

The contradiction of the bald stubborn man's works made of glass reflects the contradiction of people in real life. He believes that glass materials have the same spirit as people, and complexity and simplicity are intertwined, so glass is as charming as life; Hu Jinli's works are steep and full of spirit, and "follow one's inclinations" is Wen Li's definition of glass, and his glass is his spirit.

Social assessment

About ancient stubbornness

I majored in art design in college, which was called decoration at that time.

Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts is a difficult school in the north. At that time, undergraduate students enrolled more than 100 a year, and more than 8,000 students were able to take the exam. I worked as a yellow clay statue at home for a year, preparing to take the sculpture major, but the sketch level was not up to standard, and finally I transferred to this decoration major.

After graduating from college, I was assigned to a TV station, worked as a TV drama artist for several years, and then started to work as an advertising company. Because I like advertising very much, I was beautiful in those years, and many big names such as Noriko Sakai, Zhao Benshan and Li Jiachun worked for me. After working for several years, the advertising company went out of business. I started writing scripts and playing glass art again, burned a lot of money and wrote a lot of words, but I didn't make a big deal.

Now I start painting, there are always some people who don't live for material and money, and I am one of them.

Experimental ink painting

Experimental ink painting is a kind of painting expression that uses traditional painting materials in China, but does not follow traditional techniques. When society enters the era of knowledge explosion, information and values are also diversified. If ink painting still follows the traditional method, it will feel obviously backward. The concept of culture changes with the progress of the times. Ink painting has been in China for more than two thousand years. There are many formulas for its techniques or forms of expression, but there are still changes. This change is very consistent with the soothing atmosphere of agricultural society for more than two thousand years.

When China entered an electronic and digital era, such changes were very steep and rapid, and painters were at a loss for a while, because exploration always paid the price of explorers, and the formation of a new style needed time to be recognized by more people.

When Mr. Zhu Da expressed his melancholy and resentment with pen and ink, he decided to speak with pictures, then big eyes and white eyes, and then unyielding eyes. He experimented and spoke, not for the simple pleasure of pen and ink, but to express his grievances in the society at that time on behalf of himself in an alternative image.

About technology and concepts

It is not easy for Zhu Da to express what he wants to say with a style of standing between dry mountain and thin water, which won the recognition of the audience at that time and later, but it is enough to prove that all human beings need innovation in artistic forms, which is in line with some weaknesses of human nature-liking the new and hating the old.

I never want to stand on the shoulders of the ancients when I pick up a brush, because I can't climb over the techniques that literati have explored in a slow time for two thousand years, such as landscapes, figures, and the composition and content of the ancients squatting by the pond in robes and jackets. Even if the imitation is realistic, the painter can talk with his mobile phone, which I think is a rather absurd collocation and behavior.

I picked up a scrub brush and a large and small soft wool oil painting pen, dipped it in ink and smeared it on rice paper, because many times the tools determine your painting style. After painting for a year, I know that the experiment is feasible, because people don't care about your craft, and many professionals accept it and like it. None of the characters I painted were ancient people, and the expression of Dang in the Wu Dynasty was inappropriate. Brushes can be used to draw ink on rice paper.

In fact, tools are only the external factors of painting style, and it is the author's ideological quality and the concept of serving the world that determines the painting style. Convey lyrical satire in painting; Or play evil irony; Or praise propaganda; All reveal the painter's words from the pen. No matter the style or the content, the author has his own thoughts and situation. Concept first is not empty talk. When Mr. Zhu Da picks up a pen and hooks it into a bird's nest, he will definitely put his thoughts in that eye socket, squinting at the world, or looking at the sky, expressing his resentment and helplessness. When Zheng Banqiao only paints bamboo, he will feel that a black hat restricts his behavior, because no one will say that painting several bundles of bamboo is anti-bone. Van Gogh's brush strokes are warm and stirring. In the golden sky of the wheat field, a flock of crows is the last farewell of his lonely and about to collapse life! ..... These paintings express the artist's ideas. Whether they are concerned about scenery or people, or they don't know how to create their works, but they don't know.

About naked little people

When I want to speak with a pen, I must find the right language to express my thoughts, just like what I eat with what tools. Painters play the role of observers and roles in society. When you see unfair things in this unfair society, you can't draw a romantic night. Although it is very picturesque and eye-catching, I don't want to be such a painter, because those things are not what I want to say.

Because of clothes, humans are divided into classes. It seems that people are divided into several classes because of a suit. Then take off your clothes and have a look? I divide men and women into fat and thin people. They came into this world naked and were born equal. It seems unrealistic to express human behavior with nudity, but painting is not a true portrayal of reality. It requires conveying ideas and thoughts from the author's perspective in addition to photography art, which should present all the feelings of painting to the viewer and arouse the resonance of the author. This kind of resonance, pleasure, comfort, resentment or thinking are all the functions of painting. If there is such a function, painting is not just a decoration with flowers on the wall.

Naked people express their content more freely. Many things they do on paper are the ideology behind the image, and at the same time they are in line with the context and concept of contemporary art. When naked yellow people make round eyes to see the world, I see that their eyes are full of many of my ideas. I remember a sentence: I think, therefore I am!

Minions can do anything on this inhabited earth and convey multiple meanings. This is the symbol I am looking for.

Old stubborn view 1- What is painting?

Painting is a personal behavior. As long as you don't break the law and touch the waist of an authority figure, you will get into trouble. Then, the art of painting is a free bird.

A free bird can fly in the sky. Of course, it can also pick up grain on the ground. It can also go to singing in the trees at midnight.

Paper is used for painting, and ink is used for wiping. As for how to wipe, that's the direction in your heart.

Painting is not only propaganda, although it can publicize the greatness of a devil.

Paintings can not only be decorated, although they can be hung on the wall to cover up your safe.

Painting can become money, but painting for money is a promising career.

If painting can win the prize, the prize may control you.

Painting is also talking. I can draw whatever I want to say, because I can speak with pictures.

Painting has many languages.

Some people say that Chinese painting should have a solid foundation, tradition and procedures.

Who stipulated it? Huang is blind. When poking with a bald pen, do you think about chopping an axe or piercing hemp?

What has been handed down is only language. Today, as we enter the computer age, you still have to bow and scrape, and you are still full of classical Chinese. That's an imitation of ancient times.

Old stubborn view 2-pen and ink should follow the times.

"Pen and ink should keep pace with the times" is a famous saying of Shi Tao, a painter in Qing Dynasty, which fully embodies his profound understanding of the thought of "harmony in directing". To Li Lai, this is his incisive exposition on the development of Chinese painting; For Shi, this is his innovative idea of Chinese painting. However, how should the "pen and ink" of Chinese painting "keep pace with the times"?

Shi Tao put forward that "pen and ink should follow the times" has three meanings. First, the so-called "pen and ink" represents the traditional culture of China, and Chinese painting has formed the artistic characteristics of Chinese painting because of China's "pen and ink"; Secondly, the so-called "keeping pace with the times" is the principle and standard of the development of Chinese painting, that is, the traditional "pen and ink" can not lose the flavor and style of the times, otherwise it will make the development of Chinese painting lose its originality and even stagnate. Third, pen and ink are also materials and tools, and are the carrier of "art" just like western oil painting pigments. Only through the artist's artistic thinking can pen and ink produce the unique artistry and mystery of Chinese painting.

In fact, foreign oil painters have been changing the brush and ink of oil paintings with the changes of the times. Since the impressionism, the pen and ink of western painting has entered the stage of brushwork changes such as wiping, drawing, tick, dot and brush. These changes in brushwork and the dislocation of brain vision have produced many painting styles, which make people feel the excitement and pleasure that painting brings to the senses.

China's Xuan paper and pen and ink have been changing with the progress of the times, but they are much more conservative than foreign paintings. Some advocates of classical tradition regard works that do not follow the classical brushwork as heresy. Although I dare not take action to punish them, the attack of language and words has never stopped.

The strongest power comes from the collectors and buyers of calligraphy and painting at the lower level, because these people don't understand the basic historical situation of art, and their appreciation level is based on the "image" of ordinary people. Therefore, when the paintings are displayed in a vulgar way, the benefits can be rewarded.

It takes time for new brushwork to be accepted by many people, but only innovative brushwork is interesting when painting. The brushwork is like this, and the content of the painting should actually change with the times. In this electronic age, there are no more hedges picking chrysanthemums, and you can see the artistic conception and rhythm of Nanshan leisurely. .......

Ahem! Who wants to draw how! Painting is an act, and there is absolute freedom in your own space!

Bald and stubborn person

Li yun

The night always belongs to those thinkers, and the tranquility of the night allows those who are regarded as crazy in the eyes of others to find their inner paradise through the dust of history. The beauty of night is not appreciated by those who are afraid of it, and those who enjoy it alone are obviously happy.

There is a bald and stubborn man named Li Xiaoqiang who writes prose and draws pictures. His paintings will make you feel his inner struggle. He is bitter and helpless to society. He is a man who thinks in the dark. Is the painting "Bald Joker" an experimental ink painting? Is it New literati paintings? Both are true and false. In his works, there are various experimental ink paintings, as well as New literati paintings's criticism and banter to the society. He is a painter who walks between inheritance and rebellion and constantly denies society and himself. Although the thought he represents is not recognized by the mainstream society, he exists, and his existence makes people further understand the real emotional factors in today's painting. When it comes to experimental ink painting, we can't help but mention Wu Guanzhong, who is undoubtedly a milestone figure for contemporary experimental ink painting. Although some people deny that his works are "foreign garbage", we can't help but admit his significance to China's contemporary experimental ink painting. As an experimental art, its existence itself is a kind of destruction of traditional art, which is positive and will not leave any traditional value. However, the vitality of experimental ink painting is constantly expanding in today's diverse background, which many people have never thought of. Wu Guanzhong's colored ink works are mostly composed of bright colors and large dotted lines to please the audience. As far as the inner meaning of his pictures is concerned, it is not independent of the ideological content. In other words, if we peel off his symbolic things, you will find him empty and even bored. His milestone is that he led the traditional Chinese ink painting art in China to a new field of visual art that is more easily accepted by China and the West. However, he failed to grasp the most fundamental things of Chinese and western cultures, and most of his works deviated from the essence of culture. As far as his contribution to the ideological system of experimental ink painting is concerned, his significance is not great, so it can be said that it is worthless. Today, people should pay more attention to the inner thought of experimental ink painting, and people engaged in the creation of experimental ink painting have attracted people's attention in different spiritual concepts because of the continuous publication of new works with ideological connotation. From Wu Guanzhong's superficial abstraction to pluralism, experimental ink painting is maturing, which is based on the unique cultural background in this pluralistic world.

As an industrial city, Shenyang will naturally leave some dilapidated factories and houses with alien nature in the transformation of the old city. As a person living in Shenyang, a bald and stubborn person is undoubtedly full of feelings, and behind this feeling is complex personal feelings, nostalgia and a little yearning. It is necessary and responsible for a painter to pay attention to everything that will be lost around him, so we saw a series of his works with the theme of steel mills and Shenyang streets. His paintings are depressing and depressing. His paintings always make you pay attention to what is happening here. . The theme written by the bald stubborn man is obviously personal, solid and rich in content. In this kind of pen and ink, he used western languages, which came from his good basic training in Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts. As far as the expression language of pen and ink is concerned, the pen and ink of the bald hooligan is undoubtedly simple. He doesn't have the good surface skill of a traditional painter, so he hasn't received a good training in Chinese painting. Unlike some so-called traditional painters, he has been pursuing pen and ink techniques and eventually became a person trapped by pen and ink. He is not too eager for western trends and new ideas like some so-called experimental ink painters, but uses his knowledge to reflect his life as much as possible. When ink painting expresses the essence of objects, Chinese painting emphasizes the modeling ability of bone lines, and the cultivation of this ability comes from the understanding and practice of calligraphy. The beauty of the bone line is more introverted and cannot reflect the essence of the object. Although there has always been strict requirements for bone brushwork in Chinese painting, this brushwork is far from the essence of the things represented, and it is closer to people's inner understanding than the surface form of objects. In the contemporary sense, experimental ink painting enriches the expressive force of Chinese painting and solves the weakness of traditional Chinese painting in volume and light sense. At the same time, his aesthetic orientation is contrary to people's inherent aesthetic habits. We can see the bald and stubborn man's handling of light from his work platform. His paintings are rich, with typical composition effects of dots and blocks. He is different from the backlit style in Li Keran's landscape painting and the colorful style in Wu Guanzhong, but he uses a single language to deal with it. In the eyes of some traditional schools, experimental ink painting is difficult to be accepted, but you can't help but admit its value in modern times.

When we look at his works, we always feel what the bald and stubborn man is saying. Looking at his urban ink series, there is a strong sense of personal repression. Ink and wash are mostly gray tones with the texture of light moving pictures, giving people memories of this city that is about to be lost. This emotion with obvious personal likes and dislikes reflects the author's own emotions in the process of screen space transformation. He is different from the works of some creative people in modern times. He is more describing his understanding of the city. He wants to tell people through his works that he is a nostalgic person and a "sick person" who has a good vision for things. Unlike some people, he does not vent the picture excessively, resulting in a sense of separation between the theme of the picture and the language of pen and ink. Many experimental ink paintings rely on color changes and the composition of points, lines and planes to support the picture, but this simple work is impossible to have vitality and is made. They don't tell people their feelings and thoughts through pictures, and the technique itself is easy to imitate. Their existence makes it difficult for the so-called traditional mainstream figure painting to obtain experimental ink painting. From the emergence of experimental ink paintings to their diversification, there is a direct relationship with their own weak techniques. They are trying all kinds of media to enrich the expressive force of their pictures, and behind this expressive force is the instability of their thoughts and the blind introduction of western trendy ideas without screening. They have no fear of traditional ink painting, which is also the driving force to promote the development of contemporary ink painting. They are different from Liu Haisu, Lin Fengmian and Xu Beihong, but completely abandoned the tradition. In the eyes of the traditional school, they are equivalent to painters or they are painters. It is impossible for a person who dare not give up tradition to have new vitality. In the work "Dream Steel City", a bald and stubborn person, it is difficult for us to see the shadow of traditional techniques. His grasp of the texture of the picture is just right, which can not be reflected by traditional techniques. The performance of traditional techniques is the individual's inner experience of things. The theory from Dong Qichang's Southern and Northern Dynasties to Long Mai, the four kings, is actually the relationship between heart and pen and ink, which overemphasizes the role of heart and pen and ink. It is impossible to draw such a modern work with traditional techniques. It is very western, and it is also the media language of China. You can't simply regard it as the product of Chinese painting grafted with western painting, nor can you understand it with traditional thinking, because his appearance is telling people that even the best things have to be changed, even if you don't want to accept it, it's your problem. History will not change its trajectory because of your likes and dislikes.

It is meaningless for us to discuss the significance of Xu Beihong. His improvement of Chinese painting is bound to have far-reaching significance, and this improvement has become the whole of art education in China. Realistic painting can't be replaced by any kind of painting because its vitality serves the political needs. The internal cause of the Eighth Five-Year Plan is not the revolution of painting, but the fission of people's thoughts. The appearance of New literati paintings is not criticizing tradition, but putting it in another space to see the value of tradition. When agricultural civilization turns to industrial civilization, the ideology of sticking to agricultural civilization is negative, and this negativity is not what some people call returning to tradition, but the final result of returning to tradition is god sleeps! There is no middle line of reconciliation, only based on the development of our own nation. In today's industrial civilization, China must have corresponding works of art. You can't expect that there will be works with major revolutionary historical themes in our home, and you can't expect that there will be paintings with the same style in the Republic of China everywhere for artistic purposes in the future, because the process of the times will not change with personal consciousness. We must understand that the existence of New literati paintings is inevitable, and no one can ignore it. If you ignore his existence, you are doomed to be a person who does not understand social development and artistic evolution! What a painter does is not to show off his skills at all, but to expose what you see mercilessly in the form of painting in constant thinking. People think and know through your paintings. It is true that a painter is not a philosopher, but he must have the thoughts and actions of a philosopher. The spirit of pen and ink represented by the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou itself is a rebellion against that era, and this rebellious spirit has become an eternal classic in people's hearts after hundreds of years. No one will discuss whether they are reasonable or not and whether they have cultural significance. We look at a series of figures of bald and stubborn people. He is different from the lifeless and rigid figure painting drawn by college students, and is also different from the traditional literati painting that pays attention to pen and ink techniques. I'm talking about my views on social reality. He does not use traditional pen and ink techniques, but uses block composition and ink infiltration more. He is different from Liu Ergang's old wine in new bottles and Zhu Xinjian's magnificent charm, but his works are closer to real life, and his character works always tell you what society is like. I don't deny that many works of bald and stubborn people are unsuccessful in the eyes of the traditional school. Shallow traditional methods are the reason why they are easy to attack him. But when you use strict techniques to ask a person to express himself by painting, you are actually behind the times!

It is dangerous and uncertain to abandon traditional techniques, because the final result of painting works is to make the audience accept the information you convey. Traditional inertia is much easier than self-grafting, and it also has a mass base. However, works without self-identity and self-awareness will eventually be eliminated by history, and the history of artistic development cannot be static, and people's aesthetic taste will change with the change of history. Not every pair of bald and stubborn people's works are wonderful, but each pair of his works has profound implications. The purpose of exposing society itself is not to criticize, but to show it to the public, so that people can enter a state of reflecting on society, which is the most fundamental end of painters rather than empty language symbols. There is no doubt that the works of the bald hooligan with strong personal consciousness are naked yellow characters. The creation of these characters is different from that of others. His ideological implication is obviously aimed at the problems that some people are concerned about at present. He didn't replace these little people in the traditional living environment, and he didn't emphasize the interest of pen and ink as Liu Ergang's works did. Instead, he showed them directly in the picture in a playful way, without highlighting the importance of techniques and the complex texture effect of ink and wash. This is simple, but deeper! In the eyes of critics, these works are far from perfect and have no higher market value. But their existence is indeed necessary, because as an artistic symbol of a painter, he does not need to prove his works of art with market value and stylized perfection. What he expressed was the painter's own torture.

New literati paintings, with its profound connotation of constantly challenging spirit, repeatedly asked us, what is painting? What is tradition?