Liang Kai, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, date of birth and death unknown, was born in Shandong, and after crossing the south, he lived in Qiantang (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang). He was a famous Chinese and Japanese calligrapher and painter, and served as a painter in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was a painter with a very special personality, good at painting landscapes, Buddhist taoism, ghosts and gods, teaching Fa Jia Shi Gu, and being blue out of the blue. He likes to drink alcohol, and his behavior after drinking is informal, and he is known as "Liang Feng (crazy) son".
Liang Kai's works, with the most Buddhist themes, his paintings have a fine white painting method, but also a hasty reduction of the brush, the former is pushed by the painting academy, no one is not impressed, the latter is a random ink opera work, is a portrayal of his wild personality.
Liang Kai's white painting method is derived from the techniques of Li Gonglin and Jia Shigu, with a simple and imposing brush, rich in Qingjun and old spicy interest, different from Li Gonglin's peace, it can also be said to be Liang Kai's creation.
His stick figures are the most distinctive. Although the pen and ink are simple, its lines emphasize the vivid characteristics and personality of the object, and the focus of each part of the object is deliberately depicted, which shows that although the pen and ink are simple, the expression content is specific and vivid. Therefore, the "History of Painting in China" Yun: "The so-called cursory person, the speed of description; the subtraction of the author, the simplicity of the description." The simple form should be drawn with a line of speed. ”
The lines used by Liang Kai to paint the figures are strong and staggered, called the apostrophe reed drawing, or the nail head rat tail drawing. In addition, sometimes Liang Kai even gave up line outline, and used a broad gesture and rich ink to brush out the folded form of clothes, showing a novel expressiveness due to the change of ink color.
Liang Kai's reduced strokes had a great influence on xu wei, Zhu Yun, Yuan Ji, Jin Nong, Li Kun and the modern painter Qi Baishi in later generations. Liang Kai is a generation influenced by the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and has a strong era of painting art; His reduced figure paintings have created a new world in the history of Chinese painting, enriched the artistic expression methods of Chinese painting, and embodied the aesthetic concept and development trend of Chinese painting art. (Picture and text from the network collation)