Chinese Characters Encyclopedia Network News (Cao Shunyuan Ruan Zhonghua) 2022, the year of the lunar calendar, the year of the tiger in the zodiac. Since ancient times, Chinese have had unique feelings for tigers: worship, fear, love... The long-standing Chinese tiger culture began with totems in ancient times and continues to this day.
The "Tabby Xiaqi - Hu Jinhu Year Painting Exhibition" was officially opened at the beginning of the new year on January 1, 2022 at the Zhejiang Saili Art Museum.
The artist in this exhibition, Hu Jin, is a master's student of flowers and birds in the Department of Chinese Painting of the China Academy of Art, and likes to paint bamboo, insects, animals and figures, especially fine painting tigers, seiko freehand are good at.
This exhibition will exhibit more than dozens of paintings with the theme of "tiger" by Hu Jin, a tiger artist, organically combining ancient totems, artistic ingenuity and sincere wishes, and opening the 2022 of dragons and tigers in the in-depth understanding and interpretation of the rich tiger culture!
Since ancient times, people have been accustomed to using words such as "living dragon and living tiger", "hidden dragon crouching tiger", "like a tiger adding wings", "door tiger" and other words to praise people and things in life. The tiger has also been favored by many painters and has become one of the elements of the ancients' art creation thousands of years ago.
It is the so-called "painting tiger skin is difficult to draw bones". The tiger's body structure and spiritual aura from the inside out are beyond the reach of ordinary painters. Therefore, there are very few people who draw tigers.
Ancient tiger painters
For the ancients, tigers were a very dangerous existence. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the population increased, "there was no idle land in the four seas", and a large number of trees were cut down to reclaim cultivated land, so that tigers were forced to begin to approach human cities and villages, the balance between humans and tigers was broken, and the incidents of tigers eating people and injuring people increased.
Tang Lulenga," Album of The Six Statues of The Venerables (Partial)
Regarding the tiger plague, the Tang Dynasty recorded that "the tiger entered the Temple of the Yuan Zai Family of zaichen zaichen in the Longevity Fang of the Beijing Division, and shot it." During the Song Dynasty, tigers were entrenched in the Wuyuan (Dingbian, Shaanxi) area, resulting in "a hundred miles of people in the east and west".
Song Anon. "Bian Zhuangzi Thorn Tiger Diagram"
Bian Zhuangzi was a famous warrior of the State of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period. The "Chronicle of Zhang Yilie" once recorded the incident of Bian Zhuangzi stabbing the tiger, saying that Bian Zhuangzi used the two tigers to fight each other, one dead and one injured, taking the opportunity to assassinate and injure the tiger, and in one fell swoop he won the feats of two tigers.
Ming Anon.
Ming Zhao Ruyin,"Wind Forest Tiger Map" (partial)
Ming Anon. "Winter Mountain Crouching Tiger Map"
Some painters' tigers show different appearances, from fierce majesty to docile and cute, and the tigers in the picture are like "big cats".
Five Generations shi ke's "Erzu Tuning Heart Map" (partial)
During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Hua Yao, one of the outstanding painters and representative figures of the Yangzhou School, crossed the mountains and mountains, hiked dozens of miles, came to Sujiapo Village, painted a vivid tiger on the wall of the pavilion next to the path leading to the countryside, and drove away the evil wolves that were a disaster for the villagers.
Qing Huaxue "Tiger General"
Because it is difficult for the ancients to draw tigers often and observe the living real tigers, it is difficult to fully understand the anatomy of animals, lack the scientific modeling rules of Western painting figurative modeling, and the posture of tiger paintings lacks changes and the posture is stiff, so it is inevitable that the shape will be lost.
A famous tiger painter in modern times
In modern and modern times, many famous tiger painters have greatly surpassed their predecessors in terms of shape and technique, which is inseparable from the development of the times, and painters can have the opportunity to directly contact and observe the real tiger and take pictures of the tiger, so the tiger at the bottom of the pen is vivid and has both form and spirit.
Speaking of the famous tiger painting master in modern times, I have to mention Zhang Shanxiao. Zhang Shanxiao loves tigers and calls himself "Tiger Fool", known as "Tiger Gong". Sometimes friends from the same village get a young tiger, and they know that Zhang Shanxiao has a special love for tigers and warmly sends them to each other. Zhang Shanxiao, if he received the most precious treasure, also gave him a nickname "Tiger".
Zhang Shanxiao and the young tiger
Zhang Shanxiao paints tigers
Hu Shuang'an, alias Hu Jianming, is a modern tiger painting master. He is good at Chinese painting. In 1935, he visited Mr. Zhang Shanxiao to paint tigers for the teacher, and later mr. Zhang Daqian to paint landscape figures for the teacher.
Hu Shuang'an paints tigers
Feng Dazhong's painting style is serious and elegant, painting tigers breaks through the stylized clichés, gives tigers humanistic charm, and creates its own artistic symbols, which can be called "unprecedented and later enlightened", and is known as "the first tiger in the world". It is famous for its landscape, and the landscape painting landscape is also majestic and wild, and it is now its own face.
Feng Dazhong draws a tiger
Liu Jiji, an outstanding Chinese painter. Influenced by his father, the famous painter Liu Kuiling, since childhood, he loved painting. Mr. Liu Jijian has loved to paint tigers all his life and has certain achievements and status in the world of painting tigers. He is good at capturing the instantaneous dynamics of animal movement transitions, showing a more perfect image than in life, and giving animals an anthropomorphic emotions.
Liu Jijian paints tigers
Hu Jin, Zi Ming Jin, Mian Shi Shan Jun, Tang Number Zang Shan Tang, Feng Lin Tang. Born in 1974 in Liuhe, Jilin Province. Master of Flowers and Birds in the Department of Chinese Painting of China Academy of Art. He likes to paint bamboo, insects, beasts, and figures, and especially finely paints tigers. He is good at cat painting and has studied the analysis of painting methods such as lions, tigers, leopards, cats, etc. The painting style inherits Chen Chun, Bada, Ren Bonian, Liu Jijie, Huang Ji, etc., and the styles are diverse, and Seiko is good at freehand writing.
He is currently the deputy director of the Promotion Department of Chinese Painting of China Academy of Art, the president of Zhejiang Painting Tiger Art Research Institute, the executive director and deputy secretary-general of Zhejiang Chinese Object Painting Research Association, the director of Zhejiang International Artists Exchange Association, the member of Zhejiang Artists Association, the member of Zhejiang Calligraphers Association, the member of Zhejiang Flower and Bird Painters Association, the member of China Wushu Association, the vice chairman of China Fitness Qigong Association, and the member of Hangzhou Wushu Association.
Hu Jin "Edelweiss"
Hu Jin, "When the Snow Is Fast"
The famous artist Wu Shanming once commented on Hu Jin: "The tiger painted by the contemporary young talent Hu Jin is very powerful, it can be seen that his tiger is derived from life sketching, the ancients painted tigers a lot of patterns, really vivid is rare, this point Hu Jin has the right place of the ancients." ”
Hu Jin, "Looking Back"
Hu Jin ,"Accumulation of Qi and Cultivation"
The exhibition will run until January 12, 2022
The exhibition hall is open normally during New Year's Day
Welcome to the exhibition
At the beginning of the Year of the Tiger
Know the tiger, understand the tiger, and appreciate the tiger
Taste tiger culture and the art of painting tigers
In the new year
The tiger roars, like a tiger adding wings, and the dragon walks like a tiger
Editor: Editorial Department of China People Encyclopedia Network