| Exhibition Information
"Continuing the Past and Opening the Way" Chinese Steel and Ink Art Exhibition
Sat 18 Jun
|Guangdong Museum of Art
In today's diversified development of modern ink painting, we can see from Lai Zhigang's ink art creations the image of a diligent artist who inherits and preserves traditional brush and ink. His works also reflect the spirit of the times, which is rooted in fundamental values while continuously innovating.
Date & Location
18 Jun 2022, 09:00 – 19 Jul 2022, 17:00
Guangdong Museum of Art, No. 38, Yanyu Road, Ersha Island, Baiyun Street, Yuexiu Ward, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
About
Introduction
Lai Zhigang has loved drawing since childhood and studied Chinese landscape painting systematically under the guidance of masters Jia Youfu and Li Xiaoke. Over 40 years of creative activity, he has deeply researched the traditional painting technique of accumulated ink, absorbing the rich artistic skills and strengths from masters like Mi Fu, Gong Xian, Huang Binhong, and Li Keran, integrating ancient and modern techniques to establish his unique painting style characterized by "grandeur, momentum, and thickness."
Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty wrote at the beginning of his "Secrets of Landscape Painting": "In painting, ink is the most superior. It follows the natural laws and achieves the wonders of creation." Chinese ink landscape painting is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty, gradually matured in the Five Dynasties, and greatly developed in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Through more than a thousand years of evolution and development, successive…