Artist Li Zijian (李自健) | contemporary chinese painter

Artist Li Zijian (李自健) ; Li is a contemporary chinese painter , born in ( 1954  ), Shaoyang,

Hunan Province . He began to study painting

when he was 15 years old. Despite the fact that the artist has been living in the united states for about 22 years, the main theme of his paintings is the life of his native China, local customs, people and life. The culture of my hometown Hunan has had a profound impact on me. Unpretentious and dilapidated buildings, nature, rivers and people in my hometown - all this is an endless source of my inspiration at work ", - says Li Zijian . Having lived through poverty and various life

difficulties, he took place as an artist, achieved wide

recognition. Over the course of his career as a painter, for over

30 years, he consistently adheres to the artistic

spirit of simplicity and sincerity in his paintings.

The artist’s works are written in the best traditions of realism. His genre painting is distinguished by great complexity, dynamics, and character of images. We see how the artist went through several phases in his work: from realism in the highest degree of painting, in the manner of Velazquez, to hyperrealism or photorealism, the USA of the last quarter of the 20th century. This is especially felt in the portraits created by Lee.

The artist’s works as a thematic dominant have something in common that Lee himself called "humanism and love." All his art series are distinguished by an unusual love for a person, for characters with their traditions and habits. He created numerous series in which he reflected the daily life of his countrymen, without embellishing or hiding the problems of ordinary people in China. Brushes also belong to numerous portraits of famous people of the world.