Exhibition period: November 4th to November 13th, 2011

Exhibition location: Hall B, First Floor, Guanshan Yue Art Museum

Organizer: Guanshan Yue Art Museum

Li Jinkun, born in 1958, is from Nanhai, Guangdong. Graduated from the Oil Painting major of the Art Department of Zhaoqing Teachers College in Guangdong in 1982, and from the Landscape Architecture major of the Chinese Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1986. Formerly served as the Deputy Director of the Department of Chinese Painting at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Director of the Academic Affairs Office, Director of the Creation Room at Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts, and Dean of Guangdong Youth Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, he is a member of the China Artists Association, a national first-class artist, Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Artists Association, Dean of the Lingnan Chinese Painting Research Institute, Deputy Director of the Lingnan Painting School Memorial Hall, Director of the Chinese Painting Art Committee of Guangdong Artists Association, Vice Dean of the Chinese Painting School at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and Master's Supervisor. His works have participated in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th National Art Exhibitions. "Mist of the Desert" won the bronze award at the 7th National Art Exhibition, and his paper "Using Traditional Pen and Ink Techniques to Express New Creative Ideas".

 Li Jinkun is a rising star among Lingnan painters with a strong artistic personality. He carefully understands, feels, and savors the techniques of his predecessors, reaching out to tradition and life, experiencing creation from life, learning tradition from creation, and cleverly transforming traditional brushstrokes into personalized techniques, freely entering and exiting between tradition and the present.

 The elegant and refined Zen flavor can be found everywhere in his works, whether it is mountains, trees, boardwalks and streams, clouds and mist, they all emit a strong ancient atmosphere. In these landscape paintings, there are both Li Jinkun's expectations and aspirations, as well as his spiritual sustenance and dwelling place. Li Jinkun is one of the iconic figures who inherited the Lingnan School of Painting. He borrowed the concept of "two highs and one Chen" to compromise between China and foreign countries, and his works are rich in brushwork. He innovatively developed traditional brush and ink techniques based on modern aesthetic expansion. As he had studied oil painting in his early years, he emphasized the aesthetic charm of modern Chinese landscape painting in his works.

 Li Jinkun incorporated his own ideas into his works based on the expressive forms of the images, using the four major black colors of ink ingots, ink, acrylic, and advertising colors as carriers. He alternated the use of ink in his ink and wash creations, and chose thicker rice paper to better showcase his works. This enriched the expression of the ink color charm and color thickness mechanism in his works, forming an irreplaceable artistic style that allows people to appreciate the modern aesthetic taste of mountains and waters while gaining a deeper understanding of the spirit he wants to express within his works.

Li Jinkun pursues national spirit with his paintbrush, pursuing delicacy, classics, and eternity. Strive to create art forms that belong to contemporary China and Guangdong, with a sense of the times and high taste.