当我们检索当代工笔画坛时,李爱国先生无疑是最重要的画家之一。上世纪90年代,李爱国在全国性美术展览中屡获大奖,逐渐确立起令人瞩目的声名,当时他的个人画集成了不少美术院校工笔人物画教学的参考教材。李爱国的绘画大致经历了几个阶段,所涉范围也较为广泛,民族风情、山水、花鸟、动物、人体都曾呈现于笔端,且自成格体,这在当代画家群体中并不多见。在他的诸多作品中,既有偏重主题性的创作(主要集中在早期),也有会心于自我性情表现的非主题绘画,其中人体绘画占据了显著位置。 When we searched the Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Mr. Li Aiguo was undoubtedly one of the most important painters. In the 90s of the last century, Li Aiguo won many prizes in the nationwide art exhibitions and gradually established his remarkable reputation. At that time, his personal paintings integrated reference materials of many fine art teaching in fine art. Li Aiguo’s painting has gone through several stages in general, covering a wide range of areas. Ethnic customs, landscapes, flowers, birds, animals, and human beings have all been presented at the end of the pen and become self-conforming bodies, which are rare in contemporary artists’ groups. Among his many works, he focuses on thematic creation (mainly in the early period) and non-thematic paintings in which his self-temperament manifests, in which human body painting occupies a prominent position.