个人简介

Born in Xinji, Hebei Province in 1936, LiDongxu (styled as Li Jiuxing) graduated from Tianjin Fine Arts Acad-emy in 1962. He stud-ied landscape tech-niques from renowned artists such as Liu Junli,Sun Qifeng and Wang Songyu. Over many years he focused his attention on the land-scapes of the master artist Zhang Daqian (Chang Daichien).
Drawing on the work of a number of masters,he has created his own personal style noted for its simple vigour. His art shows a profound training in tradition and at the same time is imbued with the spirit of our time. Having ac-cumulated theoretical knowledge and experi-ence in artistic creation, he has written several works including Eighteen Lectures on Brush-work and Ink, Collected Paintings in Traditional Chinese Style, Soul of China (long scroll),Landscape in Ice and Snow.

内容简介

Chinese painting prior to the 20th cen-tury achieved great success in depic-tions of landscapes. To engage in such a genre,either wholeheartedly or as a dilettant, is anexciting experience.
Specially prepared for the Western reader in-terested in Chinese painting, this manual with250 colour ill ustrations shows how "mountainsand waters" (which are the predominant mo-tifs of Chinese landscape) are painted, withcomparative explanations of Chinese andWestern artists' different approaches.