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Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

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Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Sketching Butterfly Figure Zhao Chang Scroll on Paper Color Length 27.7 cm Width 91 cm Zhao Chang, Born and Died Unknown, Character Changzhi. A native of Guanghan (present-day Sichuan Province). Good at painting flowers and fruits, more folded branches of flowers, part-time work grass worms. Attaching importance to sketching, he called himself "Sketching Zhao Chang". Between Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu (1008-1016), the reputation is the highest. This is a sketch depicting the wild scenery in autumn. In the compositional layout, the painter deliberately leaves a large blank space above the picture, and the scene is mostly concentrated in the lower part of the picture. Wild chrysanthemums, frost leaves, thorns, and reeds are arranged in a staggered manner. In the clear sky, three beautiful colorful butterflies are dancing, and a grasshopper is looking upwards. The whole painting depicts the high and fresh scenery of the autumn wilderness and the pleasant scenery of the scenery very moving. The works are vigorous with pen, realistic and vivid, and the colors are clear and elegant, and the works are clean and elegant. Flowers with pen holder rate, change naturally. Double hook, smudge painted near the flowers of the yin and yang to the back. Grasshoppers and butterflies, with a pen very precise, slightly dyed with different textures. The picture has a pure, peaceful, elegant mood and style.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Apricot Blossom Figure Zhao Chang Tuan Fan Silk Color 25.2 cm Width 27.3 cm National Palace Museum in Taipei, China This picture depicts an apricot blossom in full bloom. The painter uses a very realistic technique to portray the apricot pollen white with a beautiful posture, piling frost and collecting snow, portraying it vividly, with fine hook lines, and dyeing petals with pink and white, rich in layers. The apricot blossoms are full of crystal clear, ice and snow.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Folded peach figure Zhao Chang Closed fan Silk 27.5 cm in length (Japanese) Private collection This picture depicts folded branches of peach, with colorful branches and leaves, peach shaped perfectly, and properly laid out. The hook line is soft and thin, with slight changes in thickness and lightness, the color is bright, and the blending is even.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Falling Flowers swimming fish figure Liu Song Long scroll silk color Length 26.4 cm Width 252.2 cm (United States) St. Louis Art Museum Collection Liu Jiao, birth and death year unknown, Northern Song Dynasty painter. Zi Daoyuan (字道源), a character for Hongdao ,when he was young, he was a native of Bi (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). Official to Chao Fenglang. Good at painting fish, deep in the drama of wide floating deep, forget the meaning of the rivers and lakes. His heirloom works include "Falling Flowers and Swimming Fish", "Spring Creek Fish Algae Diagram", and "Fish PlayIng With Fish". This figure begins with a picture of blooming apricot blossoms, reaching out to the surface of the water, unfolding backwards, and the falling flowers attract a group of fish to compete for food, or gather or disperse, or dive, or float, or swim back, turning the algae to play pu, to show the natural state of swimming in the water. Its painting method is all rendered, and occasionally the boneless method is used, and there is no hook, which is lively and vivid. This method of expression and poetic sentiment is original and has been imitated by future generations.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Begonia Figure Lin Chun Tuan Fan Silk Color Length 23.4 cm Width 24 cm Zhao Chang, a flower and bird teacher of Lin Chun in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China, is delicately depicted and light in color. This picture of begonias is sketched, blended, neat and meticulous, lifelike, with lead white, rouge color, beautiful and elegant.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Izumi Furong Figure Wu Bing Tuan Fan Silk Color Length 23.8 cm Width 25.1 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing holds an unknown year of death Wu Bingsheng, a painter of the Southern Song Dynasty. A native of Wuyang (present-day Changzhou, Jiangsu). Painting flowers and birds, sketching folding branches, wonderful creation, and exquisite painting. Shao Xichu, Emperor Guangzong of Zhao mourned Empress Li, admired her paintings, and taught the painting academy to be edicted. The painting style is careful to adhere to the courtyard body, and there are many works. There are 26 paintings such as "Spring Pond Sleeping Duck", "Camellia Bunting Pigeon", "Mandarin Duck Ruilian", "Baozhu Jade Butterfly", "Folded Branches and Peaches", etc., which are recorded in the "Preparation for the Examination of Paintings". His surviving works include "Izumi Hibiscus Diagram". This picture depicts a water lotus flower, reddish smudge, lined with green leaves under the flower, and three branches of lotus stalks under the leaves. The author uses the technique of looking down on close-ups to depict the graceful appearance of the lotus flower and the quality of coming out of the mud without staining. The full-picture brushwork is exquisite, the color is gorgeous, and there is no ink pen trace, which is a fine product in the body painting of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Algae Fish Figure Lai An River Axis Silk Ink Length 89.6 cm Width 48.3 cm (Us) Boston Museum of Fine Arts Tibetan Lai An, monk. His biography is unknown. Good at drawing fish algae. Yuan Dynasty painters often gave fish a human-like personality. In this picture, the fish occupies almost all the space of the picture, and it seems to have just suddenly turned around to face the viewer, with its mouth wide open and its eyes sharp. The author carefully depicts the scales of the flakes of fish with thin lines, which are smudged to show texture and three-dimensionality. Write aquatic weeds in light ink, and increase the dynamics of the picture through the swing of the fish's tail and the shaking of the aquatic weeds.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Leaping Fish Figure Anon. Ink on Silk Pale Colored Powder Length 202 cm Width 119.3 cm (Us) The boston museum of art in the picture of the carp leaping out of the water, the body is large and fat, and it turns in the air, and the eyes look down at the small carp that has just jumped up, and the two echo each other. The water surface is turbulent, rolling up layers of waves, which sets off the movement of the fish. The lines used in the painting are light and light, the color is even, the gold powder is slightly applied, and the changes in light and shade are subtle. The water lines are rough and the movement is strong, which is very close to the method of painting water in The Taoist painting of the Yuan Dynasty. The subject matter may be related to the legend of the carp jumping the dragon gate.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Double Rabbit Figure Anon. Tuan Fan Silk Coloring Length 20.6 cm Width 20.8 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing has collected this picture as a light color fan painting. The picture depicts the grass on the top of the map, and the reed leaves are graceful and colorful, full of natural interest. Two small rabbits, one black and one white, with a vivid posture, one stood up and nibbled on the upside-down reed leaves, and one lay down to rest. The double rabbit is delicately depicted, and the fluff is painted with a fine pen, and the texture is revealed. The color is light and elegant, the composition is virtual and real, and the dynamic and static are combined, which is a masterpiece for the sketch.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Aoi stone butterfly figure Dai Jin Vertical axis Color on paper Length 115 cm Width 39.6 cm In the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing, the color is set with a pen, and one branch of Zhu and white hollyhocks is painted, and two blue and purple butterflies are painted. The above fine and rounded lines hook the contour, blended with light ink, and then covered with clear colors, which belongs to the combination of hook and boneless. The fineness is slightly similar to the Song people, the work is clumsy and close to the money selection, and it is a flower painting style formed for Dai Jin to take the length of the Song and Yuan.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Gua Rat Figure Zhu Zhanji Album Page On Paper Light Color Length 28.2 cm Width 38.5 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing Holds Zhu Zhanji (1399~1435), zhu Yuanzhang's great-grandson, Jianyuan Xuande, reigned for ten years (1425~1435), emperor Xuanzong. Self-proclaimed Changchun Zhenren. Landscapes, people, animals, flowers, birds, and grass worms are all exquisite. This album depicts mice standing on the stone, looking back at the bitter melon, the melon vine climbing the bamboo branches, and the long grass out of the stone crevice. The mouse fur is rubbed with a dry pen, which is full of texture, and the feeling of hope is also very vivid. Melon leaves and grass are written in ink, and vine branches are sprinkled like cursive. The hook and dot of the stone are very similar to Zhao Mengfu. The pen and ink are mostly taken from the Yuanren ink flower and bamboo stone painting method, which has more clumsy literati painting interest. Attached here are two other albums of "Li Rat Diagrams", the size is unknown, whether they are from Zhu Zhanji's hand, there are still doubts. The brushes used in the painting are neat and meticulous, and there is a sense of subtlety. It can be seen that the painter has another realistic and subtle painting style.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Silkworm Mulberry Figure Sun Ai Vertical Axis Color on Paper Length 65.7 cm Width 29.4 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing has this picture of a mulberry trunk, and several silkworms on the mulberry leaves are eating mulberry leaves. Mulberry leaves use the boneless method to draw the leaf surface with flower blue, and the flower blue slightly adds ochre to paint the back of the leaf. The branches are hooked first and then filled with ochre. The style is light and elegant. No prints. There are Shen Zhou's inscription poems, poetic and picturesque, complementing each other.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Peony Figure Shen Zhou Li Axis Ink on Paper Color length 150.4 cm Width 47 cm Nanjing Museum Collection Drawing a peony, blooming. The ink method is skilled, the flower branches are written in very light ink, the ink color is added to the juice green to write the leaves, and the light ink writes the flowers, and the image is vivid. Above there is the author's long inscription.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

East Fence Juju Diagram Tang Yin Vertical Axis Color 134 cm Length 134 cm Width 62.6 cm Shanghai Museum collection This picture is written to appreciate the chrysanthemum leisurely. In the picture, the distant mountains are steep and steep, a strong pine is tall and curved, the stream is flooded, the servants are busy, and the two high priests sit on the stone to enjoy the chrysanthemums and talk, enjoying it. This map of the mountain stone hook, strong and sharp, solid and thick, the full map is strong and elegant.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Standing Stone Cluster Hui Figure Tang Yin Vertical Axis Ink on Paper Length 52.6 cm Width 28.6 cm Chinese Taipei National Palace Museum collection This painting is written under the standing stone, and several bushes of grass and flowers bloom. The entire work is written in ink and boneless strokes. The standing stone is dyed by the pencil, and the yin and yang are written in a blank way, highlighting the texture of the mountain stone; the thick and light ink color of the grass flowers is used just right. The composition is concise, and the high and low echoes, so that the picture presents an ethereal and moist feeling.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Ink Flower Diagram Xu Wei Hand Scroll Ink Pen on Paper Length 32.5 cm Width 624 cm Yunnan Provincial Museum Collection Xu Wei (1521~1593), a famous writer and calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty. The first character Wenqing, changed the character Wenchang, the number of Qingteng Daoren, Tianchishan people, Zhejiang Shaoxing people. He served as an aide to Hu Zongxian, the military governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and later Hu was imprisoned, and he was mad for fear of disaster. In middle age, he began to learn to paint, and his brush strokes were dashing and his natural interest was expressive. Especially good at flowers and birds, when painting, emotions are poured on the brush edge, ink is poured, thick and light, changeable, more heroic, frank. This volume is the author's twelve-part writing of flowers, fruits and vegetables. With ink freehand, the momentum is unrestrained, the ink is not informal, the pen holder is strong, the image is vivid, the dye is random, and the pen is wild. Each painting is inscribed with verses. The combination of poetry and painting deepens the ideological nature of the theme. In this painting, the author has pushed the technique of painting flowers and birds in large freehand to a new height, which can be described as a reflection with Chen Daofu.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Banana Stone Diagram Xu Wei Vertical Scroll Ink on Paper Length 166 cm Width 91 cm (Sweden) The Oriental Museum in Stockholm has many surviving "Banana Stone Diagrams" showing his preference for this subject. Banana stone is more convenient to play the characteristics of his freehand ink. Longshi pure uses ink to wipe out with a pen, thick and thick. The plantains behind the stone, interspersed with plum bamboo, reflect each other. The thirsty pen is dashing and agile, and the breath is bold. The picture on the top right of the book is a poem of seven: "Winter rotten banana spring buds, the partition wall is like laughing old plum blossoms." Whoever has the good things in the world eats the fish and picks the shrimp. Qingteng gargled the old ink. ”

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Ink grape figure Xu Wei Vertical axis Ink pen length 165.7 cm Width 64.5 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing has collected this picture as one of the author's important masterpieces. A branch of grape is painted in ink, and the bunches of fruits hang upside down on the branches, fresh and dripping, crystal clear, and vivid. The lush leaves are dotted with large chunks of ink. The expression is unique and the ink is smooth. The style is loose, not seeking similarity, but everywhere is similar, representing the style of Xu Wei's large freehand flowers, and it is also a masterpiece of the high level of freehand flowers in the Ming Dynasty. The painting is a self-titled seven poems, the first two sentences of "Half a life has become a man, independent books and evening winds", indicating that this painting was made in his later years. The last two sentences, "The pearl at the bottom of the pen has nowhere to sell, and it is idle and thrown in the wild vine" reveals the author's undesirable mood.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Huang Jia Figure Xu Wei Vertical Axis Ink Pen Length 114.6 cm Width 29.7 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing has a sharp and upright pen, and writes the crawling shape of crabs and the autumn atmosphere of lotus leaves with bold and refined pen and ink. The shape of the crab, although there are only a few strokes, is thick, light, dry, hook, dot, wipe a lot of brushwork, texture, shape, demeanor is sufficient. The lotus leaves covered on it are broad and graceful, and the dot painting is more full of endless autumn. It is a masterpiece by Xu Wei.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Picture of flowers, birds and insects Sun Long Album On silk 22.9 cm Vertical 22.9 cm The Shanghai Museum has a total of twelve albums, all of which are freehand techniques to sketch flowers, birds and grass insects. In the painting, the pointillist painting is directly colored with a pen, without the brush of the hook, simple and sparse, waving vertical and horizontal, the pen is not meaningful, the line is not written but rhymes, the color is light and elegant, and it is the precursor of the painting of flowers and birds in the big freehand. Choose two of them here, which shows the power of its freehand grass and flowers.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Butterfly Figure Xiang Shengmo Vertical Axis Ink Pen on Paper Length 111.8 cm Width 57.8 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing has this picture in the shallow water of the pond, a clump of calamus stands like a sword, and a butterfly stops on the pu leaf. The shape is simple and simple, the pen and ink are simple and dignified, and the composition is novel and bold. Calamus is placed in the middle of the picture, with a thick brush and light ink, which is robust and varied, which well shows its straight, thick texture. Painting butterflies uses a thin pen and thick ink, which is consistent with the hook and dye, which is more workmanlike. Calamus and butterflies, one thick and one thin, one light and one thick, are interesting in contrast. Other flowers and grass slope stones as a foil are also cut boldly and handled properly.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Flower Diagram Xiang Shengmu Album Color on Paper Length 30.6 cm Width 24.5 cm Shanghai Museum collection of this album as begonias, poppies, pear blossoms, cherries, loquats, chrysanthemums, magnolias and other eight openings, using Zhao Chang's sketching flower method, the color setting skills are exquisite. The whole volume uses the boneless method, and the color is directly painted, which looks bright and bright. In varying shades of intensity, the layers of flowers and leaves are expressed and the pitch is tilted to the back. For example, loquat, several colors are blended together to depict the fruit, truly showing the half-ripe color effect of loquat. This volume is a masterpiece of the floral paintings of The Sacred Mo. In this special selection, "Loquat" and "Begonia" are opened twice.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Magnolia Figure Wang Yixiang Vertical Axis Ink on Paper Length 57.5 cm Width 29 cm (Beauty) Le Yi Zhai Tibetan This picture is written on the Jinsu Mountain Tibetan Scripture Paper. Ink pen to write folded branches of magnolia flowers, or the first bloom, or blooming, or with buds, the layout is staggered, it seems to feel the dark incense floating. Sharpen with a pen, the ink color is brilliant.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Orchid Figure Zhou Tianqiu Vertical Axis Ink on Paper Length 50.3 cm Width 24.2 cm Nanjing Museum Collection Zhou Tianqiu (1514-1595), character public flaw, number youhai, six stops, Suzhou, Jiangsu. He once learned painting from Wen Zhengming and became famous for his poetry and painting. Good at painting orchids, like to use light ink, get Zheng Sixiao style. His works include "Orchid Diagram", "Molan Diagram", "Daffodil Bamboo Branch Diagram" and so on. This picture is a light ink orchid, obliquely growing on the slope of the soil, with a pen dashing and smooth, simple and bright. The painting style is quiet and elegant. The composition is centered, the orchid leaves are divided, the orchids are evenly gathered, not afraid of the board, the light ink writes the flowers and leaves, the slope, the thick ink dots write the flower buds, weeds, and the quiet atmosphere is sprinkled on the paper.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Fish Algae Figure Wang Qiao Long Roll on Paper Color Length 28.5 cm Width 250.2 cm Beijing Palace Museum Tibetan Wang Qiao, birth and death year unknown, character Shi Yu, a word Shu Chu, the number of Xiaozhu, a small bamboo mountain people, Jiading (now part of Shanghai) people. When he was a teenager, he supplemented the county students, and later abandoned it to learn painting. Poetry, calligraphy and painting are beyond the ordinary. Poetry Zong Mengjiao, painting style bamboo, grass worms, vivid and realistic; landscape imitation rice. His works include "Grass Worm Diagram" and "Fish Algae Diagram". This volume writes about a group of fish playing in the water, and the water and grass are abundant. The fish chase and swirl, the form is natural and vivid, and the end of the volume is made of heavy ink and rocks hanging upside down. Painting fish with ink freehand, first use light ink to draw the fish body, and then use heavy ink to hook the ridge, draw the mouth, point the eyes, the end of the pen, vivid. The form of the algae is thick and light, blending with the fish and water, and the layers are clear and integrated. Natural.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Guizhi Xiangyuan Diagram Xiang Yuanbian Vertical Axis Ink on Paper Length 104.5 cm Width 34.8 cm Beijing Palace Museum Collection Xiang Yuanbian (1525-1590), Zi Jing, No. Merlin, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Guo Zisheng, rich family, rich in calligraphy and painting storage, long-term practice, calligraphy and painting self-communication. Huang Gongwang, a scholar of landscape science, is especially intoxicated with Ni Zhan, whose painting style is gentle and delicate, and who is innocent and elegant in ink bamboo Meilan, and is one of the painters of the Wu School. His surviving works include "Imitation su shi shou xing bamboo map" and "orchid bamboo map". The picture depicts a corner of the lake stone, a branch of osmanthus flowers slanting out behind the stone, and a few green leaves supporting a freshly cooked lychee. The stony underwater grass is continuous. The layout is concise, the ink is suitable for thickness and lightness, and the combination of work and writing is very expressive. This picture is the work of ink play.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Ping'an Ruilian Figure Chen Li Vertical Scroll On Paper Colorless Length 90.4 cm Width 46.4 cm Nanjing Museum Collection Chen Li, birth and death year unknown, Ming Dynasty painter. Zizheng, the number of Tuojiang, Jiangsu Suzhou people. Chen Daofuzi. Can poetry and painting, longer than flowers and birds, xu xi, Huang Xiao's will. The pen is profligate, but it is interesting. Wang Shizhen and Jiang Shaoshu both believed that he wrote flowers as if he were better than his father, but unfortunately his years were not eternal, and his first words were revived, and his posthumous works were more cherished. His heirloom works include "Pear Blossom White Swallow Diagram", "Ammonite Diagram", "Begonia Diagram", "Snow Bamboo Diagram" and so on. This picture is titled with a bottle of lotus flowers, which is extremely new and elegant. The painter paints lotus flowers in a boneless way, which is meticulous and neat, and writes leaves and reeds with flower blue, which is fresh and beautiful. Ink pen hook le ancient bottle, the color and lotus flowers, leaves coincide, echo each other. The brushwork is different, forming a texture contrast between the soft and light spirit of the flower arrangement and the clumsy solidity of the vase. There is no one in the background, but it shows the clean and unworldly character of the lotus flower.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Banana Ziwei Figure Chen Li Fan-faced illuminated paper ink pen Length 17.4 cm Width 50.1 cm The national palace museum in Chinese Taipei is centered on the painting with ink to write xiushi, and the green side directly writes the lush appearance of the banana branches and leaves, and paints ziwei with a dotted leaf dot flower method. The picture is dense but not complicated, complex but not chaotic, the colors are harmonious and beautiful.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Youlantu Du Dashou Vertical scroll color Length 111 cm Width 32.9 cm Nanjing Museum collection Du Dashou, born and died unknown, active in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Zi Zi Lun, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, lives in Riyun Yuzhai ( Gong Kai shu, good at writing orchid bamboo, good penmanship, simple and elegant ink, natural fun. His surviving works include "YoulanTu". This picture is based on the Tang Dynasty Yang Jiong's "Youlan Fu" as a painting intention, writing that Qiulan is a few bushes, although born in the mountains and wild, accompanied by lakes and stones, that is, "moistened by rain and dew, absorbing the rest of the sun and the moon", and the stems and leaves are full of orchids, showing the noble character of Youlan "although in the forest and poor valley, not with no one and not fragrant". At the top of the frame is the full text of the author's "Youlan Fu" copied in small letters.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Youlan Futu Chen Elements Long Scroll ink and pencil on paper Length 30.9 cm Width 412.6 cm Shanghai Museum collection of Chen Elements, birth and death unknown, active in the 16th and 17th centuries. The character GuBai, a native of Wu County, Jiangsu Province. Gong poetry, calligraphy and painting are exquisite. The calligraphy is clean and energetic, and the painting of landscapes means Qingyuan. Especially good at writing Mo Lan, dewen Zhengming's beauty is tall, and he is thick and strong. His surviving works include "Lan Shi Tu", "Mo Lan Tu", "Lan Zhu Tu" and so on. On the long scroll of the original picture, Chen Element made nine groups of orchids, with different postures and changes in chapters. Although the theme is the same, the orchid leaves are leaning forward, the ink flowers are flowing, and they are not the same as each other. It is stable in beauty, which makes people feel the brilliance of the present. After the volume, another paper money Qianyi shu Youlan Fu, the book with the line, take the shape of the Su character, contain the face, the willow pen, bone strength, Yu Xiong Jian in the yimei. In this selection of four groups, to see its Molan Charm.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Xuanshi Figure Wen Pepper Vertical Axis Gold Note On Paper Color Length 130 cm Width 42.9 cm Tibetan Wen Pepper (1569-1634) of the Palace Museum in Beijing, Ming Dynasty female painter. Zi DuanRong, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Wen Zhengming's granddaughter, Wen Congjian's daughter. Married to fellow villager Zhao Jun. Sexual intelligence, good at painting flowers and grass insects, fine hooks, vivid and vivid, letters and pens, can get temperament. There are thousands of kinds of herbs in Gneifu, and they are completed in a thousand days. And can be a pine strange stone, a part-time worker. His heirloom works include "Xuanshi Tu" and "Flower and Bird Diagram". A piece of lake stone is painted, with a few branches of flowers lining the back, and small grass under the stone. Hushi lives on ink painting, and the square pen is rubbed and written, which is quite old-fashioned; Xuanhua uses the boneless method, light color, and the pen is fresh and elegant.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Landscape and Flower Diagram Li Liufang Album Ink and Pencil on Paper Length 24.6 cm Width 25.6 cm Shanghai Museum Collection Li Liufang (1575-1629), character Chang Yu, yi zi Mao Zai, no. Pao'an, TanYuan, Shen Yu resident, Anhui Shexian people, overseas Chinese living in Jiading, Shanghai. In the thirty-fourth year of the Wanli Calendar (1606), he entered the priesthood. Jiading talent, good at poetry, gong calligraphy and seal engraving. Landscape studies Wu Zhen and Huang Gongwang, with rough and simple pen and ink, and a handsome style. Conjunct flowers, airy flying, light and deep ink, timeless charm. This album has a total of thirteen openings, with ink sketches of landscapes, flowers and birds, and two of them are selected here: one is "Orchid" and the second is "Autumn Ju>> which can be seen in Li Liufang's handsome and luxurious style characteristics. Orchids and autumn chrysanthemums have the characteristics of cursive writing pens, which are fast and refreshing, rhyme with long meanings, and look like heaven, which is a masterpiece of large-scale freehand flower and bird painting.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Miscellaneous Painting Part Zhang Species Long Roll on Paper Color length 29.6 cm Width 804 cm Shanghai Museum collection of Zhang Species, birth and death year unknown, active in the middle of the seventeenth century. Zi Yu, Number Tu Nan, a native of Nanjing. Good at characters, ladies, heroic pen and ink, quaint coloring, beautiful flowers and plants, and clear landscapes. This painting depicts vegetables, melons and fruits, river fresh, livestock, lined with blooming flowers, and integrates the spring and autumn scenes. With wet pens, dry pens, broken pens, wielding and bold and spicy, chaotic but not chaotic, disorderly and orderly, self-contained pattern. The pen and ink skills are profound, the shape is simple, especially the use of rabbit ink, to achieve the realm of magic. At the end of the volume, there is a single poem with seven titles and a mantra. It can be known that he did it in his later years.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Fish and crab figure Liu Jie Vertical axis silk ink color Length 175.9 cm Width 1073 cm (Beauty) The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects Liu Jie, birth and death year unknown, active around l 522-1556. A native of Ancheng (present-day Jiangxi). His father, Liu Jin, was famous for painting fish. Liu Jie's early works were praised by the scholar Bian Rong (1419~1487). The History of Silent Poetry says: "The inner temple is enshrined in the temple. Good at painting fish, especially the god of carp, correcting the head and vibrating the tail, there is a god of leaping nine clouds, and the clouds are from the momentum of rain." His works include "Algae Fish Diagram" and "Fish and Crab Diagram", all of which are hidden abroad. Algae fish figures are traditional subjects that Jiangnan painters like to express since the Northern Song Dynasty. This picture depicts the floating of ping algae, the swimming fish play, the orchid island Nagisa, the toad crab, each of which has its own fun. He was the painter of the Southern Song Dynasty. Reeds and daffodils are sketched with a pen, while swimming fish are written in a boneless way, which is vivid and flexible.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Double cat ammonite figure Wang Zhongzhong Vertical axis colorless Length 133 cm Width 32.5 cm Shanghai Museum King Neutral, birth and death year unknown, character Zhenzhi, Wu County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) people. Good at flowers and birds, old pen strength. It depicts two cats frolicking in the meadow under the lake's stone chrysanthemums. The lake stone is hooked with a dry pen and the ink is smudged; the chrysanthemum is written in the method of hooking flowers and dotting leaves. Double cat uses a unique pen, with a thin pen to write out the outline, claws, face, with a dry pen slightly colored, rough and elegant, but there is a sense of fun, and the background contrast is clear.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Yutang Fugui Figure Chen Jiaxuan Vertical Axis Silk Color Length 200.4 cm Width 103.9 cm Shanghai Museum Collection Chen Jiaxuan, birth and death year unknown, Jiading (now shanghai) people. Chongzhen Zhongzhong presented calligraphy and painting to teach the post of Zhongshu. His surviving works include "Yutang FuguiTu". This picture is rich and luxurious, colorful, and is a typical representative of the body painting school of the two Song Dynasties. The picture depicts nearly 20 species of birds of various colors, playing and wandering among the lush magnolia trees and peony flowers, which is extremely auspicious and rich. The pen is neat and meticulous, and the double hook of the pen is used to fill in the color and the boneless painting method, and the heavy color rendering is rich and elegant. Although the painting is inscribed with "Xu Xiben of the Northern Song Dynasty", in terms of style, it is closer to Huang Xiao's "rich and noble system".

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Fish algae figure Miao Fu Vertical Axis Ayamoto color Length 171.3 cm Width 99.1 cm Beijing Palace Museum Collection Miao Fu, birth and death year unknown, about the Ming Xuande people. A native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Guanwu Yingdian Jinyi Zhenfu. Good at painting algae swimming fish, realistic style, delicate dyeing, inheriting the yellow raft to rectify the beautiful vein. His works include "Fish Algae Diagram" and so on. This picture of algae floating, mushrooms, a carp shaking its head and tail, leisurely, under the ink color rendering, the fish scales are clearly visible, and the shape is vivid. Under the carp, crucian carp are swimming lightly into the depths, and the school of fish chases each other slightly farther away, a derivative of life. The pen is fine and the color is brilliant.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Lotus Stone Diagram Chen Hongshou Vertical Axis Ink pen on paper Length 151.9 cm Width 62 cm Shanghai Museum holds a craggy lake stone in this picture, the lotus flowers are blooming behind it, the pavilion is jade, the water under the stone is flowing, a few pieces of duckweed, the picture is elegant and quiet, and the lotus flower is written with fun. The lotus flower is hooked with a double hook method, which is rich in texture; a few lotus leaves and duckweed are written in splashed ink, and the ink color is thick and light, and the change is variety. Lake stone with folding belts and chaotic firewood, without baking dyeing, its dark places, only scratched grass moss; the chapter is stable, the tone is fresh, and it contains a strong decorative interest.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Wutong Double Rabbit Figure Cold Piece Vertical Axis Silk Colorless Length 176.2 cm Width 95 cm The Painting of the Palace Museum in Beijing depicts two sycamore plants, and a osmanthus flower is obliquely produced in the stone crack. Wild chrysanthemums are all over the ground, and in the soft grass, two white rabbits play with each other. Seems to be made for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The shape of the double rabbit is accurate, the image is vivid and vivid, and the fur is smooth and textured. The rabbit eyes are reflected with white dots, and the eyes appear crystal clear. The mountain stone is written squarely with a folding pen, hard and steep. The composition is dense and elegant, the pen is delicate and delicate and pays attention to the texture, and the color is harmonious and colorful and contrasting, which is obviously influenced by Western painting techniques.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Jutu Yuanji Vertical Axis Paper Width 40.3 cm Length 99.6 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing has a fine drawing method and is a representative work of Yuan Ji's fine strokes. In the picture, the distant mountains are repeated, the houses are covered with trees in the mountains, the water in the middle view stream is calm, and in the near-view courtyard, there are two pines intertwined, and a tall person stands on the chrysanthemum. The brushwork is delicate and vigorous.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Landscape and Flower Diagram Yuanji Album On Paper Ink Color 51.9 cm Width 32.4 cm There are eight landscape and flower atlases in the Tianjin Art Museum's collection. Here to choose two paintings, one of which is "Hibiscus", writing the posture of the hibiscus flower Linbo. Write the water waves horizontally with a light ink brush, and the light blue longitudinal dots form a sparkling state of water waves. The thick brush capitalizes the flowers and leaves, but the hibiscus uses a thin pen to outline the veins, delicate and feminine, and the ink color complements each other. The second "Bean Horn", the pen is arbitrary, thick ink dot dry writing vine, bean carob slightly coated with color green, complicated and simple, from nature.

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Chrysanthemum Drawing Original Ji Vertical Axis Ink on Paper Length 112.5 cm Width 47.2 cm The Palace Museum in Beijing has this picture written "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern leaves, leisurely seeing the South Mountain." "In the picture, the peaks are stacked with greenery, the pines are lush, the huts are hidden in between, and on the side of the courtyard, the chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and the chrysanthemums are pasted on the front of a coat, which can be seen leisurely.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Lotus Flower Figure Tang Ai Vertical Axis Color length 148.4 cm Width 81.6 cm Shanghai Museum collection of Tang Ai, birth and death date unknown, character Jin, number Pishi, Jiangsu Changzhou people. Gonghua lotus flowers, on a par with Yun Shouping. In the same hometown as Yun Shouping, it is known as "Tang Lotus" and "Yun Peony". His works include "Lotus Flower Diagram" and "Lotus Flower Diagram". This painting takes a corner of the lotus pond, the red lotus blooms, the new lotus leaves reflect the fun, the pond water is clear, and the water and grass flutter. Present a thriving scene of lotus ponds in midsummer. This figure is drawn in a boneless way, dyed with a lotus flower, with a powder with rouge, gradually entered by the petal head; the lotus leaf is based on a light color, and the dark color rendering gives way to the leaf vein.

Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings
Appreciation of Chinese flower and bird paintings

Flowers, birds, insects and fish Figures Jin Ming Album On Paper Length 26.6 cm Width 36.4 cm Collection of Shanghai Museum

Jin Ming, date of birth and death unknown, Qing Dynasty female painter, character Xiaozhu, number Yuanyu, Jiangsu Kunshan people. Good at landscapes and flowers. Draw floral workers without plates. His surviving works include "Flower and Bird Diagram" and "Noon Rui Tu". This album has a total of ten openings, and the four openings of "Little Stone Pond Meaning", "Bamboo Stone Morning Glory", "Narcissus" and "Autumn Water Mandarin Duck" are selected. The pen is elegant and elegant, the color is beautiful, the flowers and feathers are written in a vivid posture, and the dots of moss and light sand are also very interesting. Although it is copied from Wang Wu's work, it can be dyed at will, and it is innocent and rotten and has the beauty of blue.