Wu Changshuo painted peaches: the color is fresh but not colorful, round and not slippery

The peach is a fairy in the heart of Chinese and a symbol of longevity. Dongfang Shuo "Divine Anomaly Sutra": "There is a tree in the northeast, fifty meters high, and its leaves are eight feet long and four or five feet wide, and the name is peach." Its diameter is three feet and two inches, small and narrow, and its food is known for its longevity. ”

The peach planted by the Queen Mother of the West blossoms in three thousand years and bears fruit in three thousand years. In traditional Chinese culture, Shou Tao plays a very important "role", and many painters take it as a theme, which is a metaphor for three thousand lifes. Today, let's take a look at Wu Changshuo's Shou Tao.

Wu Changshuo painted peaches, absorbed the aesthetic taste of the folk, integrated into the brushwork of literati painters, made good use of magenta, painted with pen marks, bones and flesh, and saw his profound seal calligraphy skills between pens and brushes. His peach color is bright but not colorful, round but not slippery, steady but not flexible; the peach branches he paints are more vigorous and powerful, leaning on the stone upwards, showing a vigorous trend, and have a very healthy and longevity spiritual connotation.