There is a story recorded in the Zhuangzi Outer Chapter Tian Zi Fang that Song Yuanjun intended to draw a map of the Song Kingdom and needed to recruit painters. In order to select qualified painters, Song Yuanjun held an examination. On the day of the exam, most of the painters saw that Song Yuanjun was hesitant and did not look confident enough. Only one late painter, swinging into the examination room, did not care at all about etiquette. No one could have imagined that in the end, it was this late painter who was successfully selected.
It turned out that When Song Yuanjun saw his confident appearance, he felt that he was a famous master. Then he sent someone to inquire privately, and it was really a famous artist. This is the origin of undressing, from the story of Song Yuanjun's knowledge and good use, posterity summed up the psychological elements of the painter in his creation. Creation cannot be tense, creation needs freedom. When literati painting flourished, people began to analyze the romantic brushwork in the painter's creation with undressing.
Fu Baoshi Qutang Gorge
In modern times, lyrical freehand is still the key theme of landscape painting. Through free pen and ink, Fu Baoshi uses pictures to show the beauty of undressing. You can appreciate "Qutang Gorge" and understand its aesthetic taste. This painting is a later work by Fu Baoshi, and the painting depicts the magnificent atmosphere of the Qutang Gorge area in a panoramic giant mountain landscape mode.
General painters depict the scenery of the Three Gorges and like to use the angle of overlook to depict the scenery of the confrontation between the mountains on both sides of the strait. Painting in this way can have a sense of beauty that oversees the overall situation. Fu Baoshi's pen and ink are free, and in order to express a sense of freedom, he found a fresh angle. Starting from the traditional Song dynasty painting landscape pattern, the river is placed in the corner of the picture. He uses a small-scale approach to mobilize space beyond the picture.
Fu Baoshi Qutang Gorge partial
"Qutang Gorge" has Fu Baoshi's iconic painting method, bouldering. The birth of this method is directly related to Fu Baoshi's observation of life. The sky is high and the earth is thick, the water is flowing and the clouds are moving, and these natural scenes, after high generalization, have this fresh method. Fu Baoshi can depict the texture of mountain stones, a deep artistic conception, which contains the way of nature.
Nature has two meanings, including ease and nature. This is the best annotation for unclothed, with emotional expression and objective basis. Painting is a means of expressing emotions, with rules and subconscious agility. Fu Baoshi's landscape paintings have obvious characteristics of literati paintings, and he always emphasizes the emotional conflicts within him. It can be seen from this characteristic that he emphasizes "self-awareness" in his creations. He doesn't care whether it is restored or not, only whether it can be expressed happily.
It can be said that undressing is Fu Baoshi's personalized art style. Fu Baoshi's personality can be seen from "Qutang Gorge", before him, no one can paint the temperament of the mountain by freely smearing. The mountains in the distance are bathed in rainwater, which turns into smoke. The feeling of psychedelic confusion was expressed by him with novel techniques. Where the new technique comes from, of course, has to do with the idea of creating a garment-like garment.
Before creating, painters often only have impulses, and may not have complete ideas. When the pen and ink touch the paper, the idea becomes complete little by little. In this process, there seems to be a natural force guiding Fu Baoshi to complete his creation. Every time he drops his pen, he shows a sense of flow. Dynamic represents freedom, and dynamic represents the pursuit of the painter.
Appreciating "Qutang Gorge" and understanding the meaning of undressed clothes can help the viewer to appreciate the indifferent meaning in Fu Baoshi's paintings. The intention moves with the pen, the heart goes at will, and the brush and ink are sprinkled between the strokes, so that people can see the highest realm of literati painting creation - Yipin.