Creation, the work changed into the fresh and beautiful of the early days, not only departed from Wang Jian's doorway, but also abandoned the influence of Western painting, and took Wang Meng, Wu Zhen, Huang Gongwang, Ni Zhan and other Yuan four families as the sect, returning to the Yuanren pen and ink interest.
On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Wu Li's death in 2018, the "Surging News Ancient Art" (www.thepaper.cn) learned that from September 8, the Macao Museum of Art will jointly hold the "Spring Colors of Yushan Mountains - Special Exhibition of Calligraphy and Paintings for the 300th Anniversary of Wu Li's Death" in conjunction with the Palace Museum, the Shanghai Museum, the Macao Government Tourism Office, the Macao Foundation and the Macao Daily News. The exhibition will run until 11 November. Previously, the Macao Art Museum had jointly held exhibitions such as Dong Qichang, "Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty" and "Xin'an School of Painting".
Wu Li "Xingfu An Sense Old Map" Part of the Palace Museum Collection
The Macao Museum of Art (art museum for short) is the only art museum in Macao, which collects Chinese paintings and calligraphy, seals, Western paintings, ceramics, bronzes and other artistic masterpieces, and continues to extend and deepen the study of Ming and Qing calligraphy and painting. Coinciding with the 300th anniversary of the death of Wu Li, one of the "Six Houses of the Early Qing Dynasty", the Museum of Fine Arts, the Palace Museum and the Shanghai Museum once again joined hands with each other, and with the support of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, to hold the "Spring Colors of Yushan Mountains - Special Exhibition of Calligraphy and Paintings for the 300th Anniversary of Wu Li's Death".
Wu Li "Lake Sky Spring Color Chart Axis" Shanghai Museum Collection
Wu Li "Sunset Autumn Shadow Map" Liaoning Provincial Museum Collection
The exhibition side said that it hopes that through the exhibition, wu li and his travels will be fully displayed, which will feast the audience's eyes and provide opportunities for chinese calligraphy and painting researchers to discuss and study in depth.
A total of 84 works by Wu Li and his teachers and friends are exhibited in this exhibition. The exhibition includes the painter's paintings from the early, middle and late periods, of which most of the works around the age of 50 are " The Scroll of Spring Colors of the Lake " ( painted in 1676 , 45 years old ) borrowed by the Shanghai Museum , "The Picture Scroll of Bitter Rain in the Mountains" (painted in 1674, aged 43), "Shouxu Qingyu Landscape Axis" (1672, aged 41), "Old Picture Scroll of Xingfu'an Sense" (1674, 43 years old) collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, "Yunbai Mountain Green Picture Scroll" (1668) collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, 37 years old) and so on. There is also no shortage of fine works in his later years, such as the "Tao Pu Song Ju Tu Axis" ((1704, 73 years old) collected by the Shanghai Museum, and the "Sunset Autumn Shadow Map" collected by Wu Li in his later years imitating Ni Yunlin's pen.
Wu Li "Tao Pu Song Ju Tu" Shanghai Museum collection
Wu Li "Gift xu Qingyu Mojing Caotang summer map" partial collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
What is rare is that the exhibition also includes the album of character stories of Wu Li in the Palace Museum. You know, Wu Li is generally known for its landscape paintings, and few figure paintings have been handed down.
Wu Li (1632-1718), formerly known as Qi Li, character Yushan, Changshu, Jiangsu. A famous painter in the early Qing Dynasty, together with Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi, Wang Fei and Yun Shouping, he was collectively known as the "Six Families of the Qing Dynasty". Wu Li has made achievements in various fields, and has been trained by Chen Hu; studied poetry in Qian Qianyi, and studied painting in Wang Shimin and Wang Jian, of which the painting name is the most popular. Next to the former residence of The disciple of The Confucius Gate, Yan Yan (Zi Zi You), because of the ink well (also known as the Yan Gong Well) of Yan Yan, it is called the Ink Well Daoist and the Taoxi Resident. Wu Li lost his father at an early age, was raised by his mother alone, and devoted himself to Dan Jing, assiduously copying the traces of Song Yuan, and providing for his mother with a pen. During the Kangxi Dynasty, Wu Li came to Macau with the Belgian Jesuit Philippus Couplet (1624-1692) to practice at St. Paul's Convent, and will record his life in Macau incoherently in his paintings and poems, the Samba Collection. According to his paintings, it will be found that the 20th year of Kangxi (1681 AD) was the most painting year that Wu Li had painted in Macao in more than three years, and he was not sealed by the admiration, but unfortunately, these paintings painted in Macao, except for the "White Chuan Basin River Map" volume in the Shanghai Museum, the rest of them are unknown. Wu li later returned to Jiangsu to carry out missionary work, and at the age of fifty-seven (Kangxi 27, 1688 AD) was promoted to priest, and began his mission in jiangnan. In the fifty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1718 AD), he finally lived in Shanghai and was buried in the Catholic cemetery outside the Great South Gate at the age of eighty-seven.
In his early years, Wu Li studied painting with Wang Jian and was also a student of Wang Shimin. Therefore, the early works are very similar to Wang Jian's style, with fine dyeing and fine dyeing, and beautiful and beautiful. In middle age, on the basis of the song and Yuan families, he focused on absorbing wang Meng and Wu Zhen's elders and forming his own style. The layout of the work is more realistic, the placement is appropriate, but also rich in the sense of distance and proximity, with the pen calm and rigorous, good use of heavy ink, ink accumulation, mountain stone is rich in three-dimensional sense, the style is simple and thick. For example, the Shanghai Museum's collection of "Lake Sky Spring Color Axis" was composed at the age of 45, which is his representative masterpiece in middle age. In the scenery of Pingyuan, the willow trees in the near, middle and far places are gradually, and Wu Li is also good at painting bamboo stones, taking the town of Wu, which also has its own characteristics. For example, the bamboo branches of "Bamboo Stone Diagram Axis" are very strong, and the branches and leaves are all made of thick ink, and the painting method of thick and light is not taken, which is more majestic and vigorous.
Wu Li's "SongYuan Mingqin Diagram" Collected by the Palace Museum
After he joined the Catholic Jesuits at the age of fifty, Wu Li devoted himself to the work of the church, and for about 20 years he rarely painted. Therefore, in the history of art, it is generally believed that the peak of Wu Li's life's creation was between the ages of 40 and 50, and many of his representative works were made during this period, such as the "Painting Scrolls of Bitter Rain in the Mountains" (1674, 43 years old) collected by the Shanghai Museum, "The Scroll of Spring Colors in the Lake Sky" (1676, 45 years old), the "Old Picture Scroll of Xingfu An Sense" (1674, 43 years old) collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing, and so on.
Wu Li's "Shouxu Qingyu Landscape Axis" Shanghai Museum Collection
He copied the ancients without confining himself to the ancients, could integrate the strengths of all the families, innovated his own ideas, and absorbed the Western law to a certain extent, such as layout, light and shade, etc., so the history said of it: "Every time the Western method is used in painting, the clouds are slim and the clouds are different from usual times." His landscape pays attention to taking nature, which makes the works rich in a certain sense of reality. As he said: "Do not take the powder as a rule, and the creation comes with the bottom of his pen." These are all very different from the "Four Kings". It is worth noting that after the age of 70, he consciously realized the difference between Chinese and Western painting, and the freshness and beauty before the beginning of the change of painting also diluted the shackles of Western painting perspective, and dominated by the characteristics of simplicity and thickness, vigor and depression. Especially after learning Wang Meng's way, the dry pen is heavy ink, repeatedly rubbing, dotting, and superimposing, and the picture looks extremely old and solid.
Wu Li ,YunbaiShan Qingtu Scroll, Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Wu Li "Imitation of Zhao Danian Hejing Na Liangtu" Collection of the Palace Museum
In addition, before and after the exhibition, that is, between July and November, the Macao Museum of Art will also hold a number of special academic lectures to interpret the humanities and history related to Macao from different perspectives, especially the life and art of artists active in Macao during the Qing Dynasty, so as to explain the art world of Wu Li.
Some of the works on display
Wu Li "Pseudo-Ancient Diagram" Collection of the Palace Museum
Wu Li One of the antique landscape albums is the collection of the Nanjing Museum
Wu Li Antique Landscape Album No. 2 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Wu Li Antique Landscape Album No. 3 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Wu Li Antique Landscape Album No. 4 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Wu Li Antique Landscape Album No. 5 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Wu Li Antique Landscape Album No. 6 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Wu Li Antique Landscape Album No. 7 Collection of Nanjing Museum
Wu Li's "Map of Huai Rong Tang" In the collection of Shanghai Museum
Wu Li "Fengxi Huiqin Picture Scroll", Shanghai Museum Collection
Wu Li "Rain Break Remote Sky Map" Shanghai Museum Collection