"Family Collection" continues to pay attention to the special program "Follow the Cultural Relics to See the Past and Present", "All the Mountains Are Ringing - Dialogue with the Eight Strange Research Exhibition of Yangzhou", which is being held in the Nanchang Bada Shanren Memorial Hall. Today, let's take a look at Wen Peng, the eldest son of Wen Zhengming, the originator of literati carving in the Ming and Qing dynasties, compared with the Bada Shanren, what are the similarities in their artistic growth.
Although Wen Peng is the eldest son of Wen Zhengming, he lacks good achievements in painting, but he has made good achievements in seal carving. In the past, the impression materials used by the literati were hard materials such as ivory and jade, and they could only ask craftsmen to carve seals according to their designs, but Wen Peng found that Qingtian stone could be carved through a lot of practice, and he opened the trend of literati carving themselves, and also became the originator of literati seal carving in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Wen Peng's seal carving is beautiful and elegant, the style is charming and fresh, and the style is elegant, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations.
Peng Conghuan, director of the exhibition department of the Bada Shanren Memorial Hall, introduced that the Wen family is full of flowers in art, and each has its own expertise and specialization. And the same is true of the Bada Shanren family, the author of this fan is the grandfather of the Bada Shanren Zhu Duowei, his profound education, calligraphy is deeply influenced by Mi Fu, full of relaxed and cheerful interest.
Bada Shanren's father was also a very good painter, so in the eyes of Bada Shanren, writing and painting were very natural things. Take the calligraphy works of the Bada Shanren in his later years on display this time, it is completely different from his grandfather Zhu Duowei's, Zhu Duoshan's characters vibrate a lot from side to side, which is a manifestation of the chic style, on the other hand, the characters of the Bada Shanren are much quieter.
Bada Shanren believes that "a hundred ingenuity is not as good as a clumsiness", he uses the simplest lines to restore the texture of the center, skimming off the fancy techniques to show off, so his words are like an old monk into the set. For a long time, the title of Bada Shanren's book was overshadowed by the title of the painting, but in fact, his achievements in calligraphy were no less than painting.