□ Whispers and Monologues: Paintings by Li Jian

By Wei Xiangqi (Associate Researcher and Curator, National Art Museum of China) In recent years, most of Li Jian's works are depicting animals, including apes, tigers, deer and others which would fall into the category of birds and animals of the traditional Chinese painting. But it is clear that he does not plan to cultivate the traditional Chinese pictorial spectrum in depth, but rather to explore a new territory of his own. Although Li Jian's paintings are still associated with Chinese painting an ......（More）