李方霖

Biography

Born in 1943, a native of Jiangjin County, Sichuan Province, he is member of Chinese Artist’ Association. Upon his graduation from Sichuan Institute of Arts in 1963, he has engaged long years in art creation activities of oil painting. His works of painting many times took part in Sichuan and national art exhibitions.

The oil paintings “Country Fair” and “Mother and Son Cows” were shown respectively at China First Oil Painting Exhibition in 1987 and at China First Oil Painting Annual Exhibition in 1992. In 1993, “Crushed Stone Worker” was awarded an excellent work prize at ’93 Boya Oil Painting Contest, which was held jointly by Shenzhen·Hong Kong Boya Art Company. In 1995, “At the Harvest” was shown at China Landscape Oil Painting Exhibition in Beijing, and won the second prize. “Village in East Sichuan” and “Ferryboat” were carried one after another in the Journal of Fine Arts. His other works of oil painting such as “Recollections of the Lantern Festival”, “Hillock under the Setting Sun”, “After Rain”, “Farmer in Mountains of East Sichuan” and “Fields”, etc. were carried respectively in China Culture, Guangming Daily, Chinese Film Weekly, Art Gallery and other newspapers and magazines.

At the invitation of the Chinese Museum in 1990, he held “The Local Flavor Oil Painting Exhibition of Li Fangling” in Beijing, with over 50 works on display. The exhibition received favorable comments. The news mediums including Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily (overseas edition), China Culture, Guangming Daily and Chinese Film Weekly, all made reviews to his oil paintings, in which his works were considered to be “simple and cordial”, and “to have formed his own unique painting style being full of peace, tranquillity, unconventionality and nature”, and “to give off a breath of soil”. China Central TV and Beijing TV also reported the event with sound appraise.