Liang Kai (Southern Song Dynasty)
Southern Song Dynasty Liang Kai's "Splash Ink Immortal Figure"
Reading the above inky freehand work will leave a deep impression on you. It is an experience of pen and ink, an experience of a state of mind, and an experience of Zen.
This work has been praised by Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty, the Eight Greats of the Qing Dynasty, Jinnong and even now, countless painters! Today's freehand figure painting is unparalleled in terms of the lyricism of pen and ink.
Southern Song Dynasty Liang Kai's "Splash Ink Immortal Figure" part
Liang Kai is worthy of the originator of splashed ink figure painting, he dipped his wet pen in thick ink, and wrote it from top to bottom, but with a few strokes, the immortals' wide-clothed, humorous and cute demeanor has been in front of him. When looking closely, the corners of the immortal's mouth were revealing a mysterious smile, and a pair of small eyes were half open and half closed, as if they had seen through everything in the world.
Who understands the affairs of the world? And drunk and confused, looking at the funny things in the world, laughing at the ridiculous people in the world.
Southern Song Dynasty Liang Kai Taibai Xing Yin tu
Song Liang Kai Cloth Bag Monk Figure
Liang Kai Liu zu tear scripture diagram
Xu Wei (Ming)
Ming Xuwei's "Ink Grape Map" collection of the Palace Museum
Xu Wei's self-title in the above ink grape work goes like this:
Half a life has become a man,
Independent books whistle the evening wind.
The pearl at the bottom of the pen is nowhere to be sold,
Idle throwing wild vines.
Xu Wei, qingteng, one of the three talents of the Ming Dynasty. His splashed ink freehand paintings of flowers and birds are all between similarity and dissimilarity. With his unique brushstrokes, Xu Wei created a large-scale freehand painting style of flowers and birds, which raised the traditional literati painting to a newer realm, and had a profound influence on Chinese painting in later generations.
Ming Xu Wei "Ink Lotus Map"
Xu Wei's paintings of flowers and birds use a variety of pen and ink forms such as hooks, dots, splashes, and wrinkles to express the charm of the four flowers and trees at four times, such as the grace of peony, the beauty of Ziwei, the xiaoshu of bamboo, the loneliness of frost chrysanthemums, and the cleanliness of han plums. The warm, bold, heavy and domineering freehand painting style in his works is more exciting and stronger than Liang Kai's coldness, Chen Chun's dashing, and the eight big idyllic Xiaosuo.
Ming Xu Wei's "Huang Jia Tu" collection of the Palace Museum
With his exquisite brushwork, Xu Wei creates an open aesthetic world for the viewer between the similar and the unlike.
Ming Xu Wei's "Huang Jia Tu" part
120 years after Xu Wei's death, Zheng Banqiao was deeply impressed by it and carved a seal "Running Dog Under the Qingteng Gate".
More than 300 years after his death, Qi Baishi wrote: "The paintings of green vines, snow, and large polyesters can be painted horizontally and vertically, and the rest of the heart is extremely convinced, hating the three hundred years before they are alive, and grinding ink and paper for the kings." The kings do not accept, the rest is outside the door, hungry and do not go, and soon accidents. ”
Ming Xu Wei Ink Peony Diagram
Xu Wei Bamboo stone daffodils
Xu Wei Lotus Mandarin Duck
Xu Wei Bangs play toad
Xu Wei Xi's caged goose diagram
Chen Chun (Ming)
Ming Chen Chun Flowers and birds
Chen Chun (1438-1544), a native of Baiyang Mountain. His flower and bird paintings influenced the most landmark significance of later generations. Chen Chun and Xu Wei, the representative painter of splash ink freehand flower and bird paintings (self-proclaimed "Qingteng Jushi"), were collectively praised by posterity as "Qingteng Baiyang". In fact, the reference to "Qingteng Baiyang" is not reasonable, because Qingteng originates from Baiyang, and with Baiyang there is Qingteng.
Ming Chen Chun Ziwei figure
Shi Tao (Qing)
Shi Tao Cave Garden Release in 1697
Shi Tao is a very important figure in the history of Chinese painting, he is not only an explorer and innovator of painting practice, but also an art theorist.
Shi Tao's splashed ink landscape method is a new landscape painting creation technique after Wang Wei's "ink rendering", which has a profound impact on future generations.
Early Qing Dynasty Shi Tao 《云里山苍苍》
Shi Tao once inscribed a poem cloud: Heaven and earth melt together, and then divide the wind and rain for four hours. The brightness and darkness are far and near, and they are not similar to each other.
Early Qing Dynasty Shi Tao", "Ink Lotus"
The ink is black in the clumps, and the flowers and leaves in the inky black bushes are wide. Try to see the pen pass through the smoke, and the waves do not have to be finished. --Shi Tao
Shi Tao in the use of ink method is always confused with each other, intricate, broken ink is accompanied by the ink accumulation method, and there is the use of the ink splash method in the ink accumulation, so the ink splash method appears very much in Shi Tao's works, and the application methods are not the same.
Early Qing Dynasty Shi tao flowers and birds
Shi Tao Cheng Lake Dewa diagram
Shi Tao Lotus Ziwei diagram
Bada Shanren (Qing)
Early Qing Dynasty Bada Shanren Lotus
The Bada Shanren are masters of using ink to create a realm.
His works are usually expressive in a symbolic way, with exaggerated and peculiar images, majestic and timeless styles, and full of stubbornness. Pen and ink condensation and perseverance, to indulge in indulgence, whether large or small, there is a simple and smooth, bright and beautiful style. The Bada Shan people pushed China's ink painting freehand to the peak of art.
In the early Qing Dynasty, the Eight Mountain People, flowers and birds
Early Qing Dynasty Bada Shanren Pine Deer Diagram
In the early Qing Dynasty, the Eight Great Mountain People Flowers and Birds
Early Qing Dynasty Bada Shanren "Lotus Bird"
Zhang Daqian (modern)
Zhang Daqian's "Valley Map"
Zhang Daqian's splashed ink splash color landscape breaks the usual method of landscape creation in the past with line as the main modeling language and dot line as the composition element, combines the boneless ink splashing and heavy color techniques in traditional landscape painting, and draws on the aesthetic factors of Western abstract art and modern art, creating a new way to transform lines into surfaces, blend color and ink, work and write, and boneless freehand.
Zhang Daqian's "Deep Mountain Cloud Rise"
Zhang Daqian's splashed ink splashing landscape creates a variety of smoke and cloud effects and mountain momentum charm, so that the real abstract shape is organically and perfectly combined with the objectively natural concrete image of the mountain clouds and clouds and water flying.
Zhang Daqian,"Songfeng Xiaoxiao"
Zhang Daqian's "Taoyuan Map"
This new painting style that combines Chinese and Western painting makes the picture of landscape works more romantic and free, dexterous and vivid. The ink splash painting style founded by Zhang Daqian has made the Chinese painting technique jump to a new level, and Chinese landscape painting has entered a new era!
Zhang Daqian,"Splashing Color Hook Golden Red Lotus"
Zhang Daqian,"Splashing Lotus"
In his later years, Zhang Daqian also applied the splashing technique of landscape painting to painting lotus, creating his own unique style. Therefore, in the history of Chinese painting, Mr. Zhang Daqian can be called the first Chinese painter in a hundred years since the Bada Shanren and Shi Tao.
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