李可染（1907年－1989年），江苏徐州人，中国当代著名画家，以创作山水画为主，曾任中央美术学院教授，中国美术家协会副主席等职。李可染以山水画闻名于艺术界，中国写意人物画亦有相当研究，其风格影响了颇多后来者。他自幼习画，早年先后入上海美专、国立西湖艺术院学习。他1946年任教于北平艺专；1956年为变革山水画，行程数万里旅行写生。其山水画早年取法八大，笔致简率酣畅，后从齐白石习画，用笔趋于凝练，又从黄宾虹处学得积墨法，并在写生中参悟林风眠风景画前亮后暗的阴影处理方式。画风趋于谨严，笔墨趋于沉厚，至晚年用笔趋于老辣。他亦善画牛，笔墨颇有拙趣。他的代表作有《漓江胜境图》《万山红遍》《井冈山》等。

Li Keran (1907-1989), a famous contemporary Chinese painter from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, was a professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and vice-chairman of the Chinese Artists Association. Li Keran is famous for his landscape paintings in the art circle, and Chinese freehand figure paintings have been studied quite a lot. His style has influenced many later generations. He studied painting at an early age. In his early years, he went to Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and the National West Lake Academy of Art. He taught at Peiping Art College in 1946 and traveled tens of thousands of miles to sketch for the transformation of landscape painting in 1956. In his early years, his landscape paintings took eight major methods. His brushwork was simple and straightforward. Later, he learned to draw from Qi Baishi, tended to be concise with his brush, and learned the method of accumulating ink from Huang Binhong. He also learned how to deal with the shadows before and after Lin Fengmian's landscape paintings in his sketches. The style of painting tends to be rigorous, the ink tends to be heavy, and the pen tends to be old and hot in old age. He is also good at drawing cows, and his brush and ink are very interesting. His representative works include Lijiang River Scenic Spot Map, Wanshan Hongpan, Jinggangshan and so on.