Li Xiaoke's personal evaluation

The name "Hometown of Ink and Wash" is Li Xiaoke's accurate positioning of his decades of Chinese painting creation. The cultural connotation of this orientation has attracted the attention of painting circles. Mohism is the decoration of the spiritual home, and it is the proof that the painter cultivates his mind and measures his mind with pen and ink. Ink painter, connected with the water-like home that moistens Frost Moon's life. The reason why Xiao Ke's works are full of poetry and flowing is that his pen and ink are always full of deep affection for home.

As the son and student of Li Keran, Li Xiaoke has become a very powerful painter in contemporary landscape painting after inheriting his family studies and completing the necessary education and basic training for a landscape painter. However, Li Xiaoke did not completely follow the creative mode of the dyeable master, but learned from his heart instead of following in his footsteps. Li Xiaoke's landscape painting presents a new artistic mode. For example, in his works, he used the language symbols of landscape brush and ink handed down by his family to express the rugged grandeur and heavy vicissitudes of natural landscapes; Express the life home and humanistic feelings of contemporary urban landscape. Xiaoke's landscape creation overlooks nature with a modern view of time and space; Overlooking the social life with the contemporary humanistic spirit, the landscape and humanistic landscape are integrated into its specific state of mind, creating an image of Li Xiaoke full of the sense of the times-ink home.

Since 1980s, Xiao Ke has been trying to inherit his father Li Keran's pen and ink experience, while paying attention to the understanding of nature and social life and insisting on following the painting style. He once 10 set foot on the source of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River as a life adventure and artistic experience, and traveled all over Qinghai and Tibet for sketching photography. His expression of the western landscape is to abandon specific elements such as time, season, region and space, and penetrate the colorful land of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple with a brush that transcends time and space, and discover and shape an endless aesthetic time and space, so his Mountain Soul, Dream of Guge, Snowfield, goddess peak Canopy, etc.