The exhibition “Predestined Relationship between Li Kuchan and the Epigraphy” will be hold from 24th March to 14th April 2010 in the Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy. The exhibition is sponsored by the calligraphy and Chinese traditional painting department of CPPCC, China Artists Association, Beijing Artists Association, Beijing Fine Art Academy, Memory Museum of Li Kuchan and Art museum of Li Kuchan.

         Li Kuchan payed attention to the collection of rubbings of the inscriptions on ancient bronzes and stone tablets all though his life, although experienced a lot of disasters he still insist in his studies. There are about eighty rubbings included in this exhibition; these rubbings are made from ancient bronzes and stone tablets dated from the Pre-Qin Period, Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties, Wei, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Ming, Qing Dynasties. The exhibition would like to convey the aesthetic sense of these rubbings, the significance of epigraphy in the traditional education and the practical importance in the creation of traditional art. As an important exhibition in the “Series exhibitions of 20th century Chinese art masters”, an academic symposium also will be hold during this exhibition.

          Epigraphy is originate from Han Dynasty and developed in Wei, Jin, Sui, Tang dynasities, flourished in Song dynasty and declined in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. However in the Qing dynasty the epigraphy become the mainstream again in the academic circle and give an important influence in the traditional art. A lot of famous artist in Qing dynasty are not only an artist but also a calligrapher, a researcher of epigraphy. Because of the research of epigraphy in Qing dynasty, the traditional art in that period gradually compromise the spirit of the epigraphy, Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi is two good examples, they influenced people in that period also the late generations.

         Effected by his teacher Qi Baishi, Mr.Li research on the epigraphy and use these research results in his art creation. Mr.Li supposes that the beauty in the epigraphy comes from nature but also transnatural, if artists research in it deeply their art creation will also contend the spirit of epigraphy. Besides, though the study of the epigraphy Mr.Li also studied in the development of Chinese calligraphy.

        Today, epigraphy withdraw from our public life, this exhibition not only retrospect the history of epigraphy but also provide a clue how Mr.Li bring the epigraphy elements into his creation.