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.
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Several years ago I bought in the Salvation Army op shop here in Auckland, New Zealand, a small art paint showing an old (asiatic ?) lady puting a tread on a needle. Considering my little possess, it was daring I got it by NZD 50.00. No signature, no date, looks like oil on canvas, quite simple canvas frame (still some bark on it)however, I liked this nice painting and always wondering about who painted it. Today, finally I found it were apparently inspired by the same image created by the chinese painter Li Zijian. I expended some time comparing my one against the original art work photo online and sadly it looks like mine one is not the original art work, instead is a quite reasonable replica made by somebody whith good skills. If there is somebody interested in this quest, please let me know and I may be able to post a pic of mine one. Kiaora
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