The 44th World Heritage Conference was held in Fuzhou in July 2021, and Fujian News Broadcasting Voice of Fujian launched a 100-episode series of reports "Dong Dong Nana Says Cultural Relics". The historical inheritance that stretches for thousands of years, the cultural treasures of the stars, and the eight Fujian celebrities who have been born with heroes and heroes. Let the world know about Fujian, let Fujian go to the world! Min Yun National Tide, listen together!
When it comes to ancient Chinese court painters, most people will immediately jump out of their minds the image of a blonde-haired and blue-eyed Westerner dressed in Qing Dynasty official clothes and holding an oil paintbrush in his hand, yes, that is Lang Shining. He went through the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, engaged in painting in China for more than 50 years, and participated in the design of the Western-style building of the Yuanmingyuan, which greatly influenced the court painting and aesthetic taste of the Qing Dynasty after Kangxi. His main works, such as "Hundred Juntu", "Qianlong Grand Reading", and "Qianlong Emperor's Concubine Picture Scroll", can often be brushed on various new media.
But most people have not heard of it, in fact, there is a Fujian painter, he and Lang Shining are equally famous. And although he did not have the name of a court painter, he had the reality of a court painter. He is Shangguan Zhou, a native of Changting, Fujian, who is highly accomplished in landscape and figure painting, and among the students is Huang Shen, one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou". At that time, people called him, Along with Lang Shining and Jiao Bingzhen, "three people in figure painting".
Gangnam folk magic pen
Shangguan Zhou was intelligent and well-read since childhood, and when he was 14 years old, he studied under the famous local painter Zhong Yi. At the age of 29, Shangguan traveled around Fujian and Zhejiang, probably on a donkey or on horseback. In short, I was impressed by the beautiful scenery of Gangnam. He sold paintings while painting, known as "Jiangnan Folk Magic Brush", and his character brushwork was elegant and unique, and even appreciated by the Qing Court.
Kangxi Southern Tour Map
In the fifty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Shangguan Zhou was ordered to enter Beijing and co-painted the 12-volume "Kangxi Southern Tour Map" with the famous painters Wang Shigu and Wang Yuanqi at that time. It is now in the Palace Museum. This long scroll is grand, took three years to complete, there are tens of thousands of human figures in the painting, each with both gods and shapes, but a wonderful portrait, reflecting the society and the life of the working people at that time, it can be said that the Qing Dynasty version of the "Qingming River Map". Shangguan Zhou also shook the Beijing Division because of this.
The "sweeping monk" among painters
However, Shangguan Zhou did not stay in Beijing to develop, and soon returned to Fujian after being ordered to drift north. Shangguan Zhou called himself a "mountain man", he also put it into action in this way, liked landscapes, retired to the mountains and forests, spent most of his life traveling in the beautiful mountains and rivers of western Fujian, making friends is not widespread, coupled with a unique painting style, so although he is superb at painting, he has long been infamous, belonging to the type and level of the sweeping monk.
However, because he has been close to landscape for a long time, his landscape paintings directly teach nature, and more depict the real mountains and real waters in Fujian, less imaginative and more sincere. The Xiamen Municipal Museum has a painting by Shangguan Zhou, "Shallow Landscape Map", vertical axis, ink paper, 111 cm in length and 28 cm in width. The lonely and cold mountains in the distance of the painting are shrouded in clouds, which seems to symbolize the noble quality of the painter who does not seek fame and is far away from the world. The trees in the painting grow on steep and steep rocks, and the branches are straight, symbolizing the indomitable character of the painter. The figures in the painting are free and leisurely, riding on the back of an ox, without worldly fetters, and have blended into the pure and vast mountains and forests on this side.
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