Duoyun Xuanchun auction Wu Changshuo's "Ammonite Diagram" appreciation

2015-2-21 15:08:49

Source: Xinmin Evening News Selected Article: Fang Xiang

——Duoyun Xuanchun auction Wu Changshuo's "Ammonite Diagram" appreciation

Wu Changshuo Ammonite Diagram

In the maritime painting world at the beginning of the twentieth century, Wu Changshuo created a new style of the Hai school painting world with the painting style of gold and stone with thick ink and heavy colors, and the majestic style remains and has been passed down to this day.

Wu Changshuo chose flowers, trees, bamboo stones and other themes that are convenient for pen and ink lines to play as the main painting materials, and his paintings are mostly seen in the four gentlemen of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, as well as lotus, rose, lychee, daffodil and other famous flowers and flowers are often included in the brush end, the painter applies the majestic brush power of seal calligraphy and the spatial treatment of the engraving layout to the painting, and presents a crisscrossing spatial structure and colorful color and ink symphony in his free and flowing brush stroke.

This "Ammonite Map" (see picture) is a large freehand masterpiece of Wu Changshuo's later years, in which a huge stone stands like a mainstay, and the painter places the position of this boulder on the golden section of the picture, thus dividing the picture into left and right sides. A cluster of autumn chrysanthemums from the upper right corner through the boulder draped down, on the left side of the picture colorful bloom, chrysanthemums have red, yellow, white three colors, colorful and mixed, complex but not chaotic, so that the entire picture rhythm control tension and relaxation, appear very imposing. The large number of chrysanthemums of various colors blooming in the lower left of the picture echoes with the small pieces of yellow and white chrysanthemums in the upper right corner, which are both related and contrasting. The whole picture is thick and calm with pen and ink, and the composition is informal, and it is clever in setting up the layout. In the painting, Qiu Ju hangs from top to bottom, with a graceful posture and a graceful posture. Chrysanthemums are Wu Changshuo's favorite theme, because chrysanthemums are proud of frost and can bloom after the flowers wither, and they are colorful. Chrysanthemum branches use pens to melt the grass seal two bodies in one furnace, vigorous and spicy, miscellaneous but not chaotic, the "seal qi" of the line can best reflect the advantages of its book printing skills. The old trunk is straight, the new branches are healthy, the flowers are blooming, and the rich and fragrant atmosphere is fluttering.

Looking at the whole picture, Wu Changshuo has a unique ingenuity in the management of the position of the picture, is good at creating dangerous situations, is better at turning danger into destruction, dense pitching, interspersed with virtual reality, and the charm is born. This "Ammonite Diagram" adopts the expression of virtual reality and peace and danger, on the one hand, it breaks the mold of the previous generation's painting of chrysanthemums, and becomes its own pattern; on the other hand, in the pen and ink color, with his unique control ability and skillful expression technique, the picture forms the infiltration of pen, ink, color and water, achieving a unified harmony of rich changes and a variety of corresponding ones, which not only reflects the vitality and radiance of chrysanthemums, but also expresses the poetic interest of both things and me, both form and god. The poem cloud in the upper left corner of this "Ammonite Diagram" reads: "Several times drunk and complained about Yan Hong, for there is still an eastern hedge chrysanthemum." It's not too late to mess around, and laugh at the west wind. Mr. Ziying is painting, ugly September Wang, Wu Changshuo is seventy years old. ”

This inscription poem not only enriches the integrity of the whole picture, but also has the magic and charm of the finishing touch, using flowers to metaphorically make the main theme of the painting spontaneous. Wu Changshuo expressed the arrogant spirit of seclusion and detachment through painting chrysanthemums and inscription poems, while the chrysanthemums in Lao Miao's pen not only expressed Tao Yuanming-style detachment, but also came to celebrate people's health and longevity. In the painting, the upper paragraph is "Mr. Ziying", the name Shi Zejing, Ziying is his number, Jiangsu Wujiang Zhenzeren, Guangxu Yihai Nian Enke people. Shi was the founder of the Red Cross Society of China and contributed to water conservancy and disaster relief. This painting is from the old collection of the Shi family, which can be said to be from a famous door, so it is more commemorative.

Wu Changshuo's ammonite, the pen power of the old spicy ability through the back of the paper, vertical and horizontal, majestic, and novel layout, the composition is also close to the seal of the chapter law cloth white, as a diagonal oblique trend, virtual reality is born, the main body of the ammonite is prominent. This "Ammonite Diagram" uses a strong contrasting color on the color, especially the use of magenta, Garcinia and other bright colors, with ink thick and light, elegant and beautiful, setting off the unique charm of chrysanthemums. The painting is equipped with white stone, which is adjusted densely and interspersed with magic. This "Ammonite Diagram" uses old and spicy pens, with rich colors, and the two complement each other and complement each other, not to mention more than the green vines and eight majors. The whole picture is majestic and unrestrained. Whether it is with a pen, ink, color, inscription, bell print, it is extremely integrated and unified, which can be described as a divine product! This painting will be met with you in the 2015 Duoyun Spring Auction, and I believe it will resonate with the majority of collectors.