李芳枝：采芳东篱，悠然见山
李芳枝
Lifang
李芳枝，生于台北。1955年台湾省立师范学院（今台湾师范大学）美术系毕业，1956年与刘国松，郭东荣，郭豫伦等人共同举办“四人画展”，1957年成立“五月画会”，为创始人之一，是当时主张中国美术现代化、抽象化的重要女性艺术家。1959年赴巴黎艺术学院研究，并透过朱德群介绍，与法国艺术家Jean Souberbie （1891-1981）学习油画，婚后与瑞士籍艺术家丈夫Hans Brun定居瑞士山林，过着淡泊素朴的生活。简单朴实的生活环境形塑李芳枝独树一格的创作风格，以Lifang之名活跃欧美画坛，作品经常受邀展出。
李芳枝早期以颜色厚重，笔触豪放的抽象画为主，中国笔墨之破笔飞白的线性表现，强劲有力，试图融汇东西文化并予以创新。1970年代以后作品回归自然写生，并在错综重叠的笔法及明朗清丽的色彩间，透露出诗情的优雅与愉悦的意境，对于李芳枝而言，融合东西文化以创造自己风格的理念，迄今仍是其创作准则。她以古典诗词为题，书法线条入画，水墨技法经营画面，用色淡雅，同时善用符号与象征的关系转化，在写实与抽象之间，描绘自然的万物生机，发展自己独特的绘画语义，而有更深层的象徽意义。
李芳枝 Lifang 抽象 Abstract
纸本综合材料 Mixed Media on Paper
40.7x50.2cm 1961
展出于亚洲艺术中心（北京）-“风林火山-源自东方的抽象”
Exhibited in Zeigeist: Abstract Art of Eastern Origin at Asia Art Center (Beijing)
李芳枝 Lifang 抽象 Abstract
布面油画 Oil on Canvas 59.8x72.9cm
1967-1968
展出于亚洲艺术中心（北京）-“风林火山-源自东方的抽象”
Exhibited in Zeigeist: Abstract Art of Eastern Origin at Asia Art Center (Beijing)
“创作现代画即是为了表现中国文化传统，反映民族文化传统性格根源。天地人万物的存在即中国艺术的哲思传统，用现代人的感知及现代绘画的技巧去表现……依据天时四季之秩序，怀着爱世人的心。贯通古今，兼有东西文化之长，融合写意及抽象，融汇古典及现代，以柔和的方式将自己的感触表现于画面。”
——李芳枝
The modern paintings I work on are to express the traditional Chinese culture, reflecting the origin of the tradition and the national personality. The absolute existence of all elements on the earth is the philosophy of Chinese art, and I chose to show that by the modern painting technique, and from the eyes of a modern painter due to the orders of the seasons, and with a love for the world. From the ancient to the modern, from the Eastern to the Western, from the freehand brushwork to the abstract, from the most classic to the modern art, I blended all of them together to gently show my feelings in my works.
—— Lifang
A native of Taipei, Lifang graduated from Taiwan Provincial Teachers College (now as Taiwan Normal University) in 1955. She hold the Exhibition of Four with Liu Kuo-sung, Kuo Tong-Jong and Kuo Yu-Lun, then became a founding member of Fifth Moon Group in 1957. In 1959 she traveled to Paris where, through an introduction by Chu Teh-Chun, she studied oil painting under the French artist Jean Souberbie (1891-1981). After marrying, she settled in the mountains of Switzerland with her husband Hans Brun, living a humble, rustic life while remaining active in the European art world. Her simple living environs shaped Lifang's distinctive artistic style.
In her early career Lifang produced mainly abstract paintings with heavy colors and bold brush strokes. Her linear expressions, employing the "broken brush" and "flying white" techniques of Chinese calligraphy that leave blank streaks within a brush stroke, were forceful and puissant, an innovative attempt to merge Eastern and Western cultures together. At the begining of 1970s her artwork returned to natural realism. With multi-layered brushwork and bright, limpid colors, she manifests a mental space of elegance and joy. Employing titles from classical poetry, she integrates calligraphic lines into her paintings, incorporates ink painting techniques, favors muted colors, and uses symbols and figurative relationships. Depicting the vitality of creation, her works demonstrate a unique artistic vocabulary containing deep symbolic meaning.
*以上文字参考于台北市立美术馆文献库
*Reference:Taipei Fine Arts Museum Collection database.
李芳枝 Lifang 抽象 Abstract
布面油画 Oil on Canvas 46.5x78.8cm
1966
展出于亚洲艺术中心（北京）-“风林火山-源自东方的抽象”
Exhibited in Zeigeist: Abstract Art of Eastern Origin at Asia Art Center (Beijing)
李芳枝 Lifang 秋 Autumn
布面油画 Oil on Canvas 78.3x46.7cm
1968
展出于亚洲艺术中心（北京）-“风林火山-源自东方的抽象”
Exhibited in Zeigeist: Abstract Art of Eastern Origin at Asia Art Center (Beijing)
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“风林火山-源自东方的抽象”展览现场 亚洲艺术中心（北京）2019
View on Zeitgeist: Abstract of Eastern Origin at Asia Art Center (Beijing), 2019
李芳枝作品 Works by Lifang
台湾现当代女性艺术五部曲 1930-1983 台北市立美术馆 2013
Women Adventurers: Five Eros of Taiwanese Art, 1930-1983, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2013
关于艺术家 About Artist
李芳枝 Lifang （1933-）
重要展览：“风林火山 – 源自东方的抽象”（亚洲艺术中心，北京，2019）、“台湾现当代女性艺术五部曲 1930-1983”（台北市立美术馆，台北，2013）、“五月画会50周年展”（长流美术馆，桃园，2006）、“五月画展”（中正纪念堂，台北，1995）
获奖记录：艺术届名人作品展铜鼎奖（1995）、加拿大国际水墨枫叶优秀特奖（1994）、德克萨斯州达拉斯国际美展水彩奖（1983）、瑞士国家油画奖、水彩奖（1972）
Selected Group Exhibitions: “Zeitgeist- Abstract Art of Eastern Origin” (Asia Art Center, Beijing, 2019), “Women Adventurers: Five Eros of Taiwanese Art, 1930-1983” (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2013), “Fifth Moon Exhibition: The 50th Anniversary” (Chang Liu Art Museum, Taoyuan, 2006), “Fifth Moon Exhibition: The 50th Anniversary” (Chang Liu Art Museum, Taoyuan, 2006), “Fifth Moon Exhibition” (Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, 1995)
Awards: Bronze Medal, China’s Who’s Who of Outstanding Contemporary Chinese. Artists Exhibition, China (1995), Excellence Prize, Maple Leaf Award, International Oriental Wash and Ink Arts Exhibition, Ontario, Canada (1994), Watercolor Prize, Dallas International Art Show, USA (1983), National Oil Painting Award, National Watercolor Award, Switzerland (1972)
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