Tao Shoubo and Yu Youren
Tao Shoubo (1902-1997), also known as Zhifen, also known as Zhifen, Wanshi, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu. Mr. Tao Shoubo enjoys the reputation of "three absolutes" of calligraphy and painting in Taiwan and even overseas, and the seal engraving is called the giant hand, and the painting plum is called the holy hand. His artistic achievements have been praised by Zeng Xi, Yu Youren, Wu Zhihui, Qian Mu, Pu Xinhu, Zhang Daqian, Huang Junbi, Wang Jiqian and other famous artists.
(Tao Shoubo and Zhang Daqian reunite)
First of all, let's talk about Tao Shoubo's teachers. At the age of 15, he left his hometown and went to Suzhou to learn art, and studied inscriptions, topography, mounting and seal carvings under Tang Boqian and Tang Zhongfang Kunzhong. Han Zhen Pavilion is a famous stele shop in the late Qing Dynasty, with 4,000 or 5,000 kinds of Stele Editions, and the Tang brothers are the sons of Tang Renzhai of the Qing Dynasty's "Great King of Steles". After completing five years of study, Tao Shoubo went to Shanghai to earn a living. At the age of 25, he studied confucianism and Confucianism in primary schools and Confucianism; at the same time, Chen Julai introduced Zhao Shuru as a teacher to learn seal carving calligraphy and painting. At the age of 44, he raised Jiang Yingxian and Mei Dafu to study calligraphy and painting before the ceremony of the teacher in Bengbu, Anhui Province; at the age of 46, he worshiped Zhang Daqian as a teacher and became an important descendant of dafengtang.
(Tao Shoubo, "Plum Blossom")
The ancients of Tao Shoubo's teaching method included Wu Changshuo, Jin Nong, Zhao Zhiqian, Chen Lu, and Wang Mian. In his later years, he said in "Seventy-five Years of Investing in Yihai, Sixty-Five Years of Writing Mei's Bitter Self-Knowledge" (hereinafter referred to as "Entering Yihai")," he said: "Since I wrote Mei at the age of twenty-nine, I copied the album of Wang Chaolin, prepared a hundred plum atlas, and often read Wang Yuanzhang's plum blossoms. I wrote Mei for ten years between the ages of twenty-nine and thirty-nine, when I had the name of the Ink Plum Expert. "Wang Shishen (1686-1759), one of the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou" in the Qing Dynasty, was good at painting plums and was friendly with Jinnong. Wang Yuanzhang, also known as Wang Mian (1327-1359), was a Master of Momei in the Yuan Dynasty. Tao Shoubo studied the famous plum painters of the past generations, and also became a master of painting plums, becoming what he called one of the ten thousand. In his later years, he began to summarize his experience in painting plums and taught them to his disciples. He has the skill of painting four characters of meigan, for "Qing", "qi", "ancient" and "strange", saying that "writing lao gan in four characters can be done in one word".
Ten years after Tao Shoubo painted plums, he was also involved in flowers and birds at the age of 39, and returned from Nanyang at the age of fifty-seven to study landscapes, and his subject matter was very extensive, such as landscapes, flowers, vegetables and fruits, feathers, scales, and animals. He expanded step by step, step by step, and all of them drew their own faces. His landscape is traced from Zhang Daqian to the "Four Kings", "Four Monks", Yuan Ni Yunlin and Song Mifu, and the beauty of the Great Thousand, the vastness of the "Four Kings", the smoothness of Shi Tao, the tranquility of the Eight Greats, and the simplicity of the Yunlin Forest. In his later years, Tao Shoubo also devoted himself to painting pine, doing his best to be depressed, old and spicy, and the momentum was shocking. He once said to Mr. Zhang Zhenzhi: "The world only knows that I engrave and paint plums, in fact, my cang pine also has my characteristics." ”
(Tao Shoubo," "Vegetables and Fruits")
Tao Shoubo believes that Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, and Modern Pu Xinhu and Zhang Daqian are "outstanding people" and that "whoever desires to make a breakthrough in the title can search for more paintings from the albums of the princes, study more, and attain enlightenment." Admire Tao Shoubo's paintings, the combination of his poetry, calligraphy and painting is almost perfect, everywhere is appropriate, mellow and timeless, full of vitality, and unforgettable.