As the saying goes: The Tao is different, and it is not a conspiracy. Zhang Tong is a naïve and simple artistic artist, revolutionary artist, Zhang Daqian is a super player with extraordinary skills, across the rivers and lakes, and also business and art. To make Zhang Tong like Zhang Daqian is tantamount to the west side of the sunrise.
Unexpectedly, one day in the hands of a collector, the author actually saw a piece of Zhang Daqian's work "Emei" with Jiao Mo! Because, the inscription clearly reads: "I have been writing a thousand meanings in the summer of my year, and I wrote it in jiao ink, Zhang Lingke Yangcheng."
▌ Zhang Tong,"Emei Xiaowu (II)"
95×65 cm 1991
Knowledge: Green meditation leaning on the sky, color mistakes are suspected to be drawn. Xin Weichun tried to write the second draft of Emei. It's mountain.
Seal: Divine Journey (Zhu Wen) Landscape Embrace (Zhu Wen)
It (Zhu Wen) Hun Hou Hua Zi (Bai Wen)
Returning to his senses, he began to search for the original version of Zhang Daqian, written by Zhang Tong, and as a result, he spent a lot of effort and did not find it. Carefully comparing Zhang Daqian's Emei artistic conception with Zhang Tong's translation of "Emei", we found that the two had nothing in common: the former was beautiful and ethereal, the clouds were light and breezy, and the latter was thick and thick, strong and strong; if there were no four words in the inscription, "G Da Qianyi", no one would have thought that it had anything to do with Zhang Daqian. The question in my heart grew louder: Since I was tired of Zhang Daqian, why did I still care about his works?
▌ Zhang Daqian, "Emei Receiving The Hall", 171×78 cm, 1948
Lots at China Guardian Spring 2013 Auction
The transaction price is 32.2 million yuan
After thinking about it again and again, it seems to have some understanding: Zhang Tong went to Sichuan several times to collect wind, but he never went to Mount Emei, which is known as the "world show", and must yearn for it. Mount Emei is the subject of Zhang Daqian's repeated depictions throughout his life, and it is also the source of his artistic inspiration. Zhang Daqian's hometown is not far from Mount Emei, before going to China, he often visits the photo, and the Mountain of Emei can be said to be the home mountain in his heart. Therefore, compared with those fake stone tao and tacky female figures, Zhang Daqian's Emei Mountain, the art level is much higher. This may be the reason why Zhang Tong is deliberately imitating it.
This article is selected from the 2019 5th issue of "Collection" magazine "Naked Son Meets Player: Zhang Tong and Zhang Daqian", for more content, please pay attention to the current issue of the magazine.