Li Xiaobai’s artistic opinions

To develop art, technology is important, but in the end, as a successful person, one must innovate in concepts. The fine tradition of "Wanli Road" is an important factor for us to further establish new concepts. The so-called new means to express the same thing with different tastes and interests from the ancients and modern people. You must have personality and a unique method and style, and the style and method will change with the changes in the physical objects and the rich changes in your own thoughts and feelings. The further development of culture and art requires the exchange of different cultures and the absorption of differences. Blood that is beneficial to one's own development must have the courage to explore in order to find new paths.

Perceptions of the art of painting

——Li Xiaobai

Discover the inspiration of nature through the feelings in life. Different concepts lead to different sketching expressions of objects. There will be changes. We cannot just use traditional techniques to express the new world, because in the new era, ideas and concepts have changed. If we want to use modern people's ideas and concepts to express objects, we must have new techniques to improve them. , You can’t always use traditional techniques to set objects. If you do that, you will only become more and more dead as you draw. Because we modern people have different perceptions from the ancients in various aspects. Times have changed, and painting concepts and techniques should also change accordingly. Only in this way can we express the atmosphere and scene of the new era and make the works closer to our lives. On the basis of traditional techniques, we must face life and nature, and capture inspiration in nature. Our techniques are to serve the object, so when you see a beautiful scenery or a clump of gorgeous flowers, you must not use what you have learned to learn. The traditional techniques are applied to objects, such as building a house and laying a foundation. The learning of traditional techniques is like building a house and laying a foundation. To build a house with the flavor of the times, you need to have new concepts, design plans, and rebuild it, so that you can keep pace with the times. Only then can new peaches be exchanged for old blessings. New techniques come from within and are felt when observing objects. If you have such ability, you need to look for and understand outside the foundation of painting, which is what we are talking about now, to achieve outside the painting. It is necessary to search for and gain insights from various subjects related to the art of painting. For example: there are factors in this aspect in music, dance, poetry, literature, and chess. It depends on how you understand and perceive them, and how to subtly integrate their artistic elements into your painting creation through your own understanding. From ancient times to the present, those who have achieved great things, whether artists or social scientists, have been very comprehensive. For example, our Chinese Qian Xuesen, in addition to being an outstanding scientist, the founder of my country's aerospace industry, and a rocket expert, he also has more hobbies, including music. He has a profound influence on music...; and Leonardo da Vinci is not only He is a painter, fabler, sculptor, inventor, philosopher, musician, medical scientist, biologist, geographer, construction engineer and military engineer and other comprehensive talents. Having said that, a successful artist must first have his own unique style, his own unique insights in the concept of painting art, and his own unique education system in terms of educational concepts. Each of your works must reflect a main content and present a picture that moves readers. Why are the works of the French Impressionists still so vivid and eye-catching even after hundreds of years of history? The expression of his natural scenery makes people feel as if he just painted it yesterday. That is because his expression method is based on the feelings the object gives him, and expresses his own voice. I hope that friends who study art can learn from it. My understanding and feelings about painting mostly come from outside the painting. Enrich your painting skills and use your inner feelings and understanding to express the objects you want to express. The first thing that impresses the viewer about a good painting is that the content you want to reflect is not the technique you see. The technique should be presented behind a beautiful picture. If the viewer first sees the expression of technique in the work, then it is just using technique to cover the object. Without soul, intention and self, then he can only become a painter.

Our painting art and arts and crafts complement each other. In today's society, what the masses need more is the improvement and development of arts and crafts design. As a painter, you have time to paint teapots and porcelain. Etc., these will promote the development of arts and crafts.

In today's social education, I think art colleges should set up more craft painting majors to further popularize and increase the demand for craft arts.

Nowadays, so many art schools have Chinese painting and oil painting classes. Does the society need so many people? Overseas, about half of the professional painting classes in art academies are taken by the elderly. They are fulfilling their unfinished dreams in the past. For example, last spring, I visited Nagoya University in Japan. Mr. Hiroheon Araki, dean of the Art Department of Nagoya University, said to me: "After my graduate students go out, I don't know where they can work. The society needs so many painters." ?”. This situation also exists abroad. The cultivation of arts and crafts design should be an important factor in cultivating talents in today’s colleges and universities. However, in the training process, we must not go through the motions. We must have excellent teachers and a complete education system that are implemented in every major. Only in this way can we cultivate designers who adapt to the needs of this era and society. The key to the success and fame of an art school is whether it has a group of excellent teachers to train students. The school is composed of a team of excellent teachers and can cultivate a group of outstanding students to be famous all over the country and even the world. An artist should do more things that are beneficial to society, only in this way can art truly serve society. In the past few years since I returned to China, I have compiled my father's painting teaching materials and published and distributed more than a dozen meticulous flower and bird textbooks in publishing houses across the country and Taiwan. All of these are teaching materials needed by society. Currently, they are used nationwide and domestically All art schools and arts and crafts units use this as their version. In the future, I will make further efforts to share my teaching philosophy, learning experience, and painting techniques with colleagues who study painting, so that young people can know how we have traveled this road.

You have to walk your own path. You must have an ideal from an early age. Don’t take exams as your goal, and don’t become a slave to exams. In today’s society, you are eager for quick success, and you will not be able to accomplish great things this way. You must calm your mind, have ideals and pursuits, love the motherland and be compassionate, have new concepts and ideas, and have new goals to pursue. If you work hard, you will succeed. Life is a process, and each different stage requires us to accomplish different goals. Let yourself do something you like and do something beneficial to society, and you will not regret it for the rest of your life.