Further reading: Yachang Art Network's statement on "Deceiving artworks in the name of Yachang" Father Li Yisheng has two great wishes: one is painting, and the other is revolution. As a child who likes painting since he was four or five years old, he decided to become a painter after receiving formal art education in junior high school. But after witnessing the failure of the Great Revolution, the bloody slaughter of revolutionaries and the extreme inequality around him, he decided to become a revolutionary again. What Li and Zhang Youjiu's daughter Li Qirong said is not only the choice and contradiction of Li's youth, but also their life intertwined in revolutionary cause and painting love. 1939 Li Tangyi and The Portrait of Zhang Youjiu 194 1 year sketched 55x45cm 53 Ladder Li and Zhang Youjiu 1937 to 1938. The teachers and students of Wuchang Art College were so enthusiastic about resisting Japan that they refused the collusion of Japanese spies several times and finally provoked Japan. At that time, the principal, Tang Yijing, made a painful decision to move the school from Wuhan to the 53rd staircase of Degan Dam in Jiangjin, Sichuan. Wuchang Art College only rented two houses in this small mountain village and simply built a school building. In this shack, Tang Yijing and Mr. Tang Yihe trained many artistic talents for the country, including Li and Zhang Youqi. Li's "Deganba" 1940s woodcut 8x 10cm Wuchang Art Institute 2 1 anniversary photo, taken in 194 1 year. Li was born in Yingcheng, Hubei Province, and his family was poor, but he loved painting. 1940. Zhang Youjiu, 19 16, from Anhui. Her brothers Zhang Youluan and Zhang Youhe were both famous journalists in the Republic of China. Under the guidance of Professor Tang Yihe, Li finished Self-portrait 1943 65438+ 10/0. Mr. Deng graduated from Wuchang Academy of Fine Arts with a frame of 38x28cm, and was the first teacher of Li's painting. He not only introduced Li to western painting techniques, such as sketching, perspective and watercolor, but also taught him Chinese painting, which made him fully understand Chinese painting. Li, who is eager for new things, is still keen on western painting. After graduating from junior high school, he was admitted to the middle school attached to Wuchang Art College. The master professor of Wuchang Art College is Mr. Tang Yihe, a famous oil painter studying in France. At home, he can't afford such an expensive attached middle school, so he has to study in a normal school. But he and Wuchang Art College are predestined friends-he was admitted to Wuchang Art College and moved to Chongqing during the war. As a student in the occupied area, he didn't have to pay tuition. He was admitted to the university this time and studied under Mr. Tang Yihe. When studying western painting, it was really difficult for Li to learn oil painting at that time, because oil painting pigments were very expensive. Tang Yihe gave him the almost-used tin tube paint, and there was something (paint) in it. He gave him all the pens he didn't want to draw, long ones, short ones and pennies, and then said, "Try them." "So he began to paint oil paintings. Tear up shirts and broken quilts and make canvas. But the cloth is so rotten that it is thinner than paper that the finished canvas cannot be unfolded on the wooden frame. Later, it was painted with lime first, and then painted with tung oil as canvas. Zhang Youjiu's "The Woman in Red" 194 1 year, a fine brushwork of 75x26cm, participated in the third national art exhibition in the Republic of China. Zhang Youjiu 1939- 1942 studied Chinese painting in the Painting Department of Wuchang Art College. The main teacher was Mr. Zhang Zhaoming. Mr. Wang is a painter who is very responsible to his students. In the early 1940s, when the materials for the Anti-Japanese War were most scarce, the students all painted with homemade paper, and even Mr. Wang had to paint with this kind of paper. He painted four seasons flowers and bamboo stones on more than 30 pieces of clay paper, which was the music for Zhang Youqi, a disciple. Li Qirong said, "But even with this kind of draft paper, Teacher Zhang drew a bright flower on each draft paper very seriously, and many of them paid special attention to composition, all of which were exquisite works. "Zhang Youjiu is good at using meticulous brushwork. The title of her painting "The Woman in Red" and Du Gongbu's poem "Forget the thin silk sleeves and lean on the cold bamboo in the sunset" were written by Mr. Zhang Zhaoming. This painting was selected for the third national art exhibition in the Republic of China, and then it was selected for exhibitions in Xinjiang and even India. The Red Couple Walking Out of Wuchang Art College-Literary Criticism Exhibition of Li, Zhang Youjiu's Works. During their study in Wuchang Art College, Li and Zhang Youjiu not only greatly improved their professional level, but also used printmaking as a tool for anti-Japanese propaganda and a weapon to expose decadent society, and set off a woodcut movement in Wuchang Art College, attracting two-fifths of the students from the whole school to the May 13th woodcut research seminar organized by them. Not only that, Li also borrowed more than 100 Soviet color prints from Chongqing, which were exhibited twice in Wuchang Art Institute and Jiangjin People's Cultural Center, with as many as 7,000 people each time. This kind of large-scale woodcut movement is unique in colleges and universities in the Kuomintang-controlled areas. 1949 After the liberation of Shanghai, Li (right) and Zhang Youjiu (left) took a group photo to commemorate their lives: from "Friends of Qin and Se" to "Friends of Qin and Se", "Guan Guan, Friends of Qin and Se, One Family, Yi Nai Zhen Gan", and the writer Zhang Henshui was in Li. These four sentences come from two poems and an article. Mr. Zhang Henshui, a paunchy man, sewed them together seamlessly, expressing his good wishes and ingeniously embedding their names "Youdui" and "Jia Zhen". It is not an exaggeration to use "friends of the harp" to summarize the feelings of Li and Zhang Youqi. /kloc-in the spring of 0/942, on the birthday of Li, who works in China Industrial Cooperation Association in Geleshan, Chongqing, he sent a woodcut creation "Walking Side by Side" to Zhang Youjiu, who works in Sichuan Grain Storage and Transportation Bureau at the foot of the mountain. The picture shows two young men and women walking side by side on the rugged road. The distant mountains are radiant, and a pagoda stands on them. That's the pagoda on the Baota shan in Yan 'an, and it's the place they yearn for. Li Xinhai Revolution 1940 registered woodcut 28x 18cm Li Niu Ren Tiao 1943 June 14cm registered woodcut 18.5x 14cm After graduation, the couple became revolutionaries. Recently, he engaged in intelligence gathering and contributed to the liberation of China. Among them, he provided Chairman Mao, who was negotiating in Chongqing, with aerial photographs of the Yangtze River that could be used to liberate the southwest, went to the Air Force to find ground signals to prevent Yan 'an from being bombed, obtained the secrets of bunkers and bunkers along the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway, promptly reported to the leaders of the underground party, and turned against the enemy air force. As the traitor who betrayed Jie Jiang also betrayed them, both of them were caught at the end of 1948. In prison, they fought bravely against the cunning enemy without fear and did not disclose any information of the underground party. When Li was dying of typhoid fever, Zhang Youluan, two famous brothers of Zhang Youjiu, rescued them in the name of "saving foreign doctors". During the period of bail, the whole country was liberated, and they got their lives in Yuhuatai without being killed. However, Zhang Youqi was highly nervous in prison and induced hypertension. After liberation, her blood pressure soared to more than 220 degrees and she had to rest. 1962 died of hypertension and uremia in the summer. Li's "Two Brothers of the Tang Family —— Tang Yijing and Professor Tang Yihe, the President of Wuchang Art College"1On May 8, 944, woodcut 24.3x27.5cm recalled the love of parents, and Li Qirong talked about three letters. The first paragraph is that they first met in Sichuan in the 1940s. During that time, they separated four times: during the summer vacation, they bombed and missed each other; Zhang Youjiu's "Reply to Students such as Li" Feelings when his father died at home: After Li and Zhang Youqi became underground party member, they left school and moved to Chongqing because of white terror, and worked in two units in Chongqing respectively. Almost every day, they use a letter to pour out their thoughts and anguish (the contact of the underground organization stood up many times-this person later became a traitor) and encouraged each other; When Zhang Youqi went to Chengdu to find a job after graduation. The second paragraph is their happiest parting. 1953, Li went to Beijing for a meeting and was invited to the observation deck to watch May Day. In addition to mourning for his wife's illness, Li's letters are full of praise for the new look of the motherland on the stationery of more than a dozen letters. The third period is the period from 65438 to 0955 when Li went to the Central Party School to study. At this time, they were misunderstood by some comrades (misunderstanding of their loyalty after being arrested), and the letter revealed the grievances and mutual comfort of the protracted conclusion of the arrest. At the same time, encourage the other party to believe in the CPC Central Committee and Chairman Mao, and make their innocence clear. During this period, Zhang Youqi, whose blood pressure was as high as 220 degrees, was seriously ill. He has to take care of the housework and manage the study and illness of a nine-year-old child. At the same time, I have to be busy with the trivial matter of moving my family to Beijing and telling my husband all kinds of things, which also reflects the ordinary life between loving couples ... The painter's wife, Zhang Youqi, Li, 3 1cm×2 1cm oil painting on canvas 65438+. His evaluation of their husband and wife is "classmates, friends, comrades-in-arms, best lovers". 1962, Zhang Youqi died of serious illness. Li lives in great sorrow. Later, when I printed for myself, I removed the word "home" from my signature. Can carve the seal of "Li Zhen", his wife has no home. He doesn't think it's home, that is to say, he has no home. A "Ku Fei Gu Zhen" seal, four words tells the state of mind of his later life. The scenery in the second half of life: do as you please in the first few years after Zhang Youqi died of serious illness in 1962, Li didn't talk all day and plunged into painting, almost running all over the hills around the lake and painting scenery. In addition to Zhang Youduo's photo hanging on the wall, there are also small oil paintings of landscapes he painted. Li always went to Beishan Cemetery that day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, where Zhang Youjiu was buried. On the mountain in that place, azaleas often bloomed at that time, and the red flowers of azaleas were everywhere. Li always collects one and puts it in front of Zhang Youqi's portrait. He climbed Lingyin Mountain with his picture clip on his back again and again, stood alone in front of Zhang Youqi's grave, had a heart-to-heart conversation with her, and told how sad and lonely he was without her, so many images of azaleas appeared in the painting. Li's "The Rhododendron in Qingming Festival-Made in Memory of His Dead Wife" 30cm×39cm Woodboard Oil Painting 1979 When analyzing Li's landscape creation in his later period, Tang Xiaohe, former president of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, thought that "in the late 1970s, Mr. Li returned to the artistic ideal of his youth with a brush, and was obsessed with painting, and traveled to Huangshan, Three Gorges, Putuo Mountain and Wudang Mountain because of his rich traditional culture. At the same time, Tang Xiaohe thinks that Li's oil painting creation in this period is also integrated with other art forms: "The aesthetic consciousness of Chinese painting has penetrated into his blood because of the edification he received since childhood, and a conscious exploration and pursuit has been formed in his oil paintings. Viewers can't help but sigh that Li has shown interest in Chinese painting in the oil painting landscape." To say the basis of realistic painting, that is, in his paintings, modeling, light and shade, color step by step in place; Speaking of the atmosphere, it is free and easy, but what he wants to express is a kind of big weather and great realm, and * * * is free and does not stick to the details. " In Li's later oil painting landscapes, Li Qirong thought that his father would no longer draw the landscapes he saw step by step, rigidly and meticulously, and he would quickly smear them on cardboard with a scraper, just like splashing ink, expressing his inner feelings in a freehand way, which was already "intentional". At the same time, Li likes to paint with cardboard. Probably cardboard will allow him to use the scraper freely. In summing up his father's paintings, Li Qirong said: "Most of the western oil paintings accepted by my father's generation are basically realistic, whether it is Soviet Russia or France. My father's teacher, Mr. Tang Yihe, is a French student and a student of Lawrence, a famous French academic painter, so he teaches students realistic style. This kind of realistic painting, in other words, is figurative painting. There are some abstract factors in Chinese painting between "similarity and dissimilarity". Especially the landscape in Song Dynasty can be said to be an abstract sketch: it is an artistic arrangement for the painter to truly describe the natural landscape through the cultivation of human nature. Click "Read the original" at the end of the article to subscribe to the art number of "Art Headline" for more information.