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Li Keran, originally named Li Yongshun, was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. He was an outstanding painter in modern China and a disciple of Qi Baishi. Li Keran has been fond of painting since childhood and learned to paint landscapes at the age of 13. At the age of 43, he became a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. At 49, he went on a journey of tens of thousands of miles to sketch and transform landscape painting. At the age of 72, he served as the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Artists Association and the President of the Chinese Painting Research Institute. In later years, the use of pens tends to be old-fashioned. Skilled in painting landscapes and characters, especially skilled in painting cows. This landscape painting sweeps away the elegant literary tradition of Yi brushstrokes, with ink as the basic color tone. Exploring the transformation of light and ink, forming a unique style that expresses its artistic connotation through black, fullness, roughness, and astringency. With the help of the imagery of landscape painting, the linear brush and ink structure is transformed into a fast and round brush and ink structure, with ink as the main focus, thick and thick, simple and rich in content. Light is also introduced into the painting surface, expressing the backlight effect in the morning and evening of the forest, with a strange effect of hazy confusion and flowing light wandering.