There is a small boat between the mountains and rivers, and there is no one on board. Where have people gone? It turned out that the people on the ship coveted the good scenery here, abandoned the boat and went ashore, and went on a sightseeing trip. Some people may ask, it is a landscape painting, how can you see so many storylines? Look up and see the poem inscribed on the top of the screen. When the combination of poetry and painting, it enriches the content of the picture and also increases the expressiveness of the work.
"Abandoning the Boat and Traveling to the Mountains" is the work of the Suzhou painter Wen Dian in the early Qing Dynasty, whose ancestor was the famous painter Wen Zhengming. Judging from the pen and ink techniques of "Abandoning the Boat and Traveling to the Mountains", the use of pens is delicate and pays attention to smudging, which belongs to the typical Wen's painting style. The literati feelings revealed in the paintings are also in line with Wen Zhengming's paintings.
Wendian Abandon the boat and cruise the mountains
"Abandoned Boat Tour" has a technical feature, there are moss dots everywhere, making the mountain stone look both moist and broken. Run, very easy to understand. Jiangnan has a lot of rain, and the mountain color is either pale or moist, and it looks as if it is covered with a layer of water vapor. Broken, hard to understand. Why did Wen Dian paint like this, didn't he know that such a painting could easily create an illusion, and the mountain stone looked like a bonsai.
Taking the mountain rock near the boat as an example, analyze the motivation for this painting of the point. First of all, the advantage of such a painting is that it can show regional characteristics and seasonal characteristics. This reflects wendian's emphasis on observation in his creation, and he wants to make his works more vivid and chooses the creative path of shichuang. Secondly, this painting shows that the point of the text does not find a transformation method between "seeing things" and "looking at the mind". Subjective processing of the objective world and leaving it on the drawing paper requires additions and deletions. Wen Dian was reluctant to give up the details, causing him to abuse the moss technique. It seems that he is restoring, which in fact shows that his technique is not in place.
Wen point Abandoned boat tour of the mountain partially
Not understanding the principle of trade-offs is also reflected in the details of painting trees. Ancient trees are the scenery in the painting, and the literati are attracted by the scenery of the landscape, rather than by a few ancient trees. The emphasis is biased, which will affect the expression of the content of the work, and then affect the artistic conception of the work. Literati and scholars loomed in the woods, weakening the thematic ideas.
The original meaning of the text point is implicit, pay attention to the taste of the literati, and make some mistakes in the expression method, resulting in the overall appearance of the work as a bit chaotic. This shows that even a very mature painter will make mistakes if he does not deal with the relationship between content and technique. When painting landscapes, sometimes there will be a wrong step, a wrong step, and finally you can only paint down hard. Wendian's "Abandoned Boat and Mountain Tour" belongs to this situation, the theme is very good, the idea is very good, and when it is implemented in the creation, there is a problem.
Of course, if you stand in the perspective of goodwill, you can also say that this is the style of the text. It's just that this style is a bit difficult to accept. To appreciate a painting, you should not only say good things and not give opinions. Seeing the shortcomings in the painting is more conducive to improving the level of appreciation.
At the same time, Wen Dian's painting of "Abandoning the Boat and Traveling the Mountains" should not belittle his artistic achievements. This is just a work of his, which can only represent his failed creative experience.
Painting landscape is a rather complicated process, seeing such a slightly insufficient work, but also patiently analyze, where the good is, where the deficiency is. Over time, you will have a pair of eyes and have your own opinions on various styles of works.