"Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram" is Li Di's work during the Southern Song Dynasty Xiaozong and Ningzong period, when he was in the painting academy, and the Southern Song Painting at this time is still mainly characterized by the inheritance of the Northern Song Style, and this work is the representative of the painting form of this period.
[Song] Li Di's "Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram" Length 116.1 cm Width 52.9 cm Color on silk Shanghai Museum collection
Li Di (date of birth and death unknown), Southern Song Dynasty painter, a native of Heyang (present-day Mengzhou, Henan Province), cheng zhonglang of the painting academy during the Northern Song Dynasty Xuanhe, reinstatement as deputy envoy of the painting academy during the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing, and the three dynasties of Xiaozong, Guangzong and Ningzong (1162~1224), active in the court painting academy for decades, painting is multi-skilled, quite prestigious. Li Di is good at painting flowers, birds, bamboo stones and other things, based on the materials of life, eagle falcons, cows and horses, flowers, cats and dogs, etc., gonghua birds bamboo stones, eagles and birds, dogs and cats, ploughing cattle pheasants, growing in sketching, intercropping landscapes and small scenes. His paintings of flowers, birds and bamboo stones, business and good interest, sketching skills are very deep.
A dead tree, a bush of bamboo, a bird of prey, a snow, the cold air out of the painting.
"Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram", silk color painting, is painted on the silk fabric of the brush stroke, silk fabric is the main component of protein, preserved until now is very difficult, we often say silk eight hundred paper thousand years, the seal on the silk fabric is often a little more blurry than on the paper, the painting has Li Di's own inscription, he this painting was created in the southern Song Dynasty Xiaozong Chunxi fourteen years, that is, 1187 AD.
This image depicts snow-covered bamboo leaves, lightly stained thorny branches, and burrow birds perched on the branches. Painted with the scenery of twilight and cold weather, silence in the countryside, and birds perched by the wind. The main body of the picture is Berau standing quietly on the thorns, his eyes are shining, and his beak is pointed and foot-sharp; the thorns are as dry as iron, and the maples are intertwined. The falling snow hints at the passage of time in the silence, giving the picture an endless poetry.
The whole picture is exquisite and meticulous, meaning timeless, "exquisite and handsome", ready to come out, is an outstanding work in panoramic flower and bird paintings.
[Song] Part of Li Di's "Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram"
Double-hook bamboo, tree trunk color rendering, for the performance of snow, directly sprinkle white powder thick on the branches and bamboo leaves, showing the gravity of the snow pressing branches, empty and comfortable.
The middle slope of the mountain in the picture is outlined with a thick pen, writing a clump of decaying grass, adding snow meaning.
The painting on the left at the bottom of the painting is "Chunxi Ding's Last Age Li Di Painting", according to the inscription, the picture was made in the fourteenth year of Chunxi (1187), which is the earliest li di model seen, but it is also a work of later years. There is a seal on Li Di's name that has been vaguely visible, the two seals below the Qing YinTang Secret Seal, this one is gao Shiqi of the Qing Dynasty, and the other is Xie Songzhou of the Qing Dynasty.
The two seals on the bottom and right side of the painting, Pang Laichen True Reward Seal and Virtual Zhai Identification, are mr. Pang Yuanji's seals, his character Laichen, the number of virtual Zhai.
Due to Li Di's lofty position in the history of painting, his works have been cherished by successive generations as "divine products", and they are also the objects of imitation by painters, and many famous artists have imitated Li Di's works and draw inspiration from them. "Snow Tree Cold Bird Map" was once collected by Gao Shiqi and Xie Songzhou Qinggong Inuchi of the Qing Dynasty, and it was finally collected by the modern Pang Yuanji, who was a large collector with the same name as Zhang Boju, and the picture had eleven collection seals of these people, distributed around the periphery of this painting, without affecting the beauty of the entire picture.
Birds are painted with a combination of bonelessness and outline, which is realistic and vivid. The painting of Berau in Li Di's "Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram" is very expressive and has its own "don't get close" temperament.
Berlau Bird/Photography
Although Berlau is small, he is a small bird of prey, cold by nature, likes to "hang corpses" dead branches, and is also a very special habit.
[Song] Li Di's "Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram"
In the shaping of the artistic conception, the painter deliberately renders the cold and silent atmosphere of winter, but in the silence, the vitality of life in nature is revealed, and the beloved cold birds that stand indifferently in the wind and snow, as well as the cold of the snow bamboo, show a kind of endless power. This picture closely follows the words "snow" and "cold", showing a dry plant in the snow, the leaves have disappeared, the branches are sparsely pointed to the sky, and the white space is left next to it to show the snow; the light tone and the ink-stained sky form a strong contrast, so that the first sight falls on the "cold bird".
The little bird that perched on the branches seemed to be tired of flying, stopping here to rest for a while, it stood peacefully on the branches, staring at the faint snow color, it seemed so comfortable and peaceful, it could not see a trace of timidity and fear of the cold wind and snow, and completely ignored the harshness of the natural environment in which it lived.
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