Li Zongwu was born in Huining, Gansu Province in 1972. He graduated from Shihezi University in 1997 and Northwest Normal University in 2003. He continued his study at Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University in 2011. He learned from famous painters Yan Han, Huo Chunyang, Chang Baoli and Zhang Lichen. Currently he is a member of China Artist Association, a director of Guansu Artists Association, the executive chief editor of The Western Art, and the president of Research Institute of the Loess Plateau School, etc. As a representative painter of the Loess Plateau School, he has deveted himself to the research of landscape paintings with the themes of Loess Plateau for more than 20 years and put forward the formation theory of Loess Plateau School, which filled in the blank of Loess Plateau themes in history and have profound influence in Chinese painting.
李宗武,1972年生于甘肅會寧。1997年畢業(yè)于石河子大學(xué),2003年畢業(yè)于西北師范大學(xué),2011年就讀于清華大學(xué)美術(shù)學(xué)院,師從著名畫家彥涵、霍春陽、常保立、張立辰諸先生?,F(xiàn)為中國藝術(shù)家協(xié)會會員,甘肅國畫院院務(wù)委員,甘肅省美協(xié)理事,《西部美術(shù)報》執(zhí)行主編,《文藝大觀》雜志社執(zhí)行副主編,甘肅省會寧畫院常務(wù)副院長,清華大學(xué)美術(shù)學(xué)院寫生基地畫家,中國畫院畫家,黃土高原畫派研究院院長。
黃土高原畫派代表性畫家李宗武,基于對傳統(tǒng)文化的學(xué)習(xí)和探索,以及“筆墨當隨時代”的認識,20多年來一直致力于對黃土高原題材的山水畫探索,同時積極從古人和歷代大師的作品中借鑒學(xué)習(xí),提出黃土高原畫派形成的理論。該理論體系的提出,填補了中國繪畫史上對黃土高原題材的山水畫的不足,其意義是深遠而卓越的。
李宗武的作品是從傳統(tǒng)走向現(xiàn)代的黃土高原,他采用全景式的構(gòu)圖和濕畫法,以及點、線、面,色融為一體的筆法,很好地表現(xiàn)了黃土高原土質(zhì)地貌的特征,也成功解決了歷代畫家在土質(zhì)山水畫上筆墨語言的問題,反映出黃土高原的渾厚博大、悲壯蒼涼,給人以痛快淋漓之感。
黃土高原畫派的形成,得到專家和美術(shù)界的高度評價。他們認為,扎根大西北黃土高原并以隴原大地為依托的黃土高原畫派,是繼陜西黃土畫派之后又一個令人矚目的山水畫學(xué)術(shù)流派,它是以黃土高原題材的山水畫為主,以隴原大地上關(guān)注并創(chuàng)造的山水畫家群落為基礎(chǔ),他們的作品形成了蒼涼豪放、渾厚質(zhì)樸、磅礴大美和勃勃向上的現(xiàn)實主義風(fēng)格。