Video: Liu Maoshan's lyrical watercolor landscapes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Since every person is not indifferent to affection and tenderness, and strives for harmony in the soul, it is difficult to imagine someone who will be indifferent to the gentle and harmonious watercolors of the brush Liu Maoshan … This elderly and accomplished artist is not only the Vice President of the Suzhou Academy of Chinese Painting, but is also known in China and beyond for his stunning watercolor landscapes depicting nature and the city at different times of the year and day. Liu Maoshan was born in Suzhou in 1942, and continues to live and work here, explaining this by the fact that his hometown gives him the inspiration necessary for creativity. He also received his education in Suzhou, graduating from the Institute of Artistic Crafts, and soon his magical landscapes, thin and delicate like spring air, were noticed in creative circles. This allowed a talented 20-year-old boy, one of the few graduates, to very soon organize the first personal exhibition of paintings, which was later highly appreciated by specialists.
Despite the fact that the watercolor landscapes of Liu Maoshan cannot be called cheerful and sunny, they do not have the depressive sadness that is usually present in such paintings. On the contrary, the artist's works are imbued with the lyrical mood that poets usually visit at the turn of the seasons and is the reason for the lines about love for a beautiful stranger, which the hero often meets in a bakery and looks out to the corner. The artist puts thin, weightless strokes on the canvas deliberately carelessly, but it is this style that gives his works the lightness for which their fans love.
Liu Maoshan successfully combines the technique of traditional Chinese painting with elements typical of the work of the Impressionists. His works are presented in galleries not only in China, but also in Japan, England, USA, Germany and many others.
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