Li Huanmin Tanyilu 

Jiayi Li, 2023 

18.5cm×2.60cm

In this project, I recreated a book cover of Li Huanmin Tanyilu, which collated nearly 50  articles and 40 representative works on Li Huanmin’s artistic thoughts. Li Huanmin is a Chinese  woodcut print artist, who has gone to Tibet more than 30 times and established a deep  relationship with the Tibetan people since 1953. In Li Huanmin Tanyilu, Li talked about him  when he was a child who was displaced due to the war until he joined the Communist Party of  China, began to study and read books, and later was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. In his  youth, he was an anti-dictatorship person with a lot of passion. He has been involved in some  student revolutionary movements, and after seeing his classmates killed by force, he filled the  streets with Chinese words that meant paying for blood with blood. After that, China’s provinces  began to be gradually liberated, and New China was founded in 1949. Li began to work in the  newspaper art group, actively promoting New China with art creation and contributing to the  founding of New China. Later, he chose to work in Tibet and participated in the liberation of  Tibet, where he created many famous romantic realistic woodcut print artworks. In addition to  his own life experience, this book has a lot of thoughts about his creating art and life  apperception. I think it is a very memorable book, which is worth watching repeatedly.  Therefore, I chose to recreate a few images of his life as a collage on the cover. 

For the technical process, I chose a photo of the prairie as the background image because  Li has a great connection with the grassland. I used photoshop to transform the photo into the  texture of an oil painting. I drew two scenes in the background. One is Li’s portrait of sketching  and painting on the Tibetan prairie, and another one is the scene of the Red Army marching  through the meadow. It was a historical feat, very arduous, and Li admired these revolutionary  soldiers very much and created printmaking for them. In the upper right corner, I chose to paint  the scene in which he wrote the words of resistance on the street when he was young. I drew the  original scene using procreate, and then I also used photoshop to help me to make the texture of  the oil painting. I like the granular texture of oil painting very much, and I also want to use this  thick texture to reflect the artist’s hard revolutionary life.

Source 

Picture from https:// www.pexels.com/zhcn/photo/1756325/