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李松石 |
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He was born in 1923, a native of Zhenghai,
East Zhejiang. He studied in Wuchang Art School in Hubei and graduated
from the National Art School. From May 1949, he served as director of the
Art Studio of the Railway Union of Shanghai District. In the spring of
1951, he was teacher of the Central Academy of Drama. At present he is
associate professor of the Stage Art Department and also member of the
Chinese Artists’ Association. For thirty years he made active
contributions to the cause of drama education. In the past decade, he
devoted himself to the study and creation of landscape painting. This is
not only for his own objective, but more importantly is the embodiment of
the “scene” of the stage art, which provide direct teaching benefit.
In 1983 he held his solo show “Exhibition of Li Songshi Landscape
Painting” in China Art Gallery, and won wide acclaim from spectators and
art circles. Among the hundred landscape paintings, most of them belong to
the works of past decade. His exhibits display intensive liveliness, many
of which reveal the splendor of realism. Some of his paintings, such as
“The Martyrs’ Pond of Taihang Mount”, “North Wind”, “Green
Lowland”, “Boat from Fujian”, “Ancient Banyan of South China”
and “Tide of Chenshan Cape”, were collected by the National Art
Gallery. In both teaching and painting, he persists in the painting
principle of abiding by the road of realism. On the one hand, he seeks the
objectivity, precision and concreteness of image. On the other hand, he is
not confined to limiting himself to merely reflecting nature and
objectively depicting the objects. From the landscape of nature, he
derives his own feeling and experience, and through deepening of such
experience he imparts all his emotions into his works. His paintings are
immersed in simplicity, vigor and purity. They are also endowed with
ideological content, thus forming his distinctive artistic language and
style.
His works of art afford the spectator’s food for thought and call for deep thought or make one relaxed and happy. The general impression is to give one the appreciation of beauty and to mould one’ s temperament. The reason why one can enjoy such artistic benefit stems from the painter’s being good at capturing the beauty of nature and combining the beauty of life. Such combination is a process of melting, which both deepens natural scenery itself and endows his works with ideological implication, to reach an identity of idea and state. |
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