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Li Keran

Li Keran (1907 - 1989) was active/lived in China.  Li Keran is known for Modernist and traditional painting-figures in landscape.

From Jiangsu Province, China, Keran Li was an artist who combined an avant-garde thematic approach with traditional mediums and methods.  Using ink and watercolor and familiar scroll-like motifs with calligraphy, he markedly departed from the familiar academic treatment of humans awed and dwarfed in size by dramatic landscape vistas.  Instead Keran Li injected humor and interaction by placing awkward, clumsy-looking animal companions, such as water buffalo, and distracted, day-dreaming young cowboys in landscape vistas.  Often these subjects seemed only mildly impresssed with their natural surroundings because they were distracted by their own activities such as playing tug of war or looking at each other for responses rather than overwhelming mountainscapes.

For Li Keran, landscape and calligraphy painting was of interest from the time he was a teenager.  He enrolled in the Shanghai Art College in 1923, and there was much influenced by lectu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5246 characters.]  Artist bio

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MOUNTAINS IN RED , 1964

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THOUSANDS OF MOUNTAINS IN AUTUMN , 1964

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Sacred Place of Revolution Mount Shao (Estimate on Request) , 1974

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LONG MARCH

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MAGNIFICENT MOUNTAINS WITH GUSHY CASCADES , 1978

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INSPIRED BY MAO TSE TUNS’S POEM , 1964

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