At the end of 20 10, this 227.5×208cm "Happy Canal" was sold at a high price of 45.92 million yuan in Beijing Huachen Auction Co., Ltd., which is also one of Liu Wenxi's favorite works.
Liu Wenxi was born in Shuizhuan Village, Changle Town, Shengzhou City, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. His real name is Wen, the founder of Loess Painting School, a famous contemporary painter, artist and art educator in China. The main paintings are Four Generations of Grandchildren, Happy Together, Caring, Paradise in the Liberated Area, Confident Talk, Jujube Country and so on.
The brushstrokes and colors in Liu Wenxi's painting language are not immutable. The innovative and exploratory painting language has made his works climb to a new artistic peak. Liu Wenxi put forward the idea of "being familiar with characters, being rigorous in modeling, emphasizing pen and ink, and seeking novelty", emphasizing artistic truth and ideological control, refining and remolding characters at the height of history and times, and reaching the realm of "impossible law".
Liu Wenxi's works show the world the characteristics of China and the spirit of China. It conveys the daily life, customs and spiritual outlook of the people of China to all countries in the world through pictures, so that people all over the world can appreciate the vigorous spiritual outlook and thriving spiritual life of the people of China.
In Liu Wenxi's painting creation, we can see that he tirelessly combines the western color theory with the spirit of China's ink painting, and integrates historical truth with artistic spirit. He really rooted in the fertile soil of life, went deep into the spiritual world, touched people's souls and triggered thoughts.
Application of creative skills and brushwork
In terms of creative techniques, Liu Wenxi pays attention to the combination of Chinese and Western, extensively absorbs the pen and ink and modeling techniques of Chinese and foreign schools, emphasizes the accuracy of character modeling, and combines his long-term in-depth understanding and thinking of life to inject the simple and heavy wind of the Loess Plateau into Zhejiang figure painting, thus forming a rough, masculine, simple and powerful pen and ink language.
Liu Wenxi inherited the "bone brush" in the "six methods", added the modeling technique to the traditional line drawing, and integrated western painting into Chinese painting, forming a unique brushwork, sketching the image of the working people in northern Shaanxi with rich and minimalist brushwork, and relying on the accuracy, strength and sense of change of lines to express the body structure, posture and facial expressions of the characters.