What is called "Chunyin", the Southern Dynasty Liang Jianwen Emperor said, "The Shawen wave accumulates, and the Chunyin River rises." Huang Tingjian of the Northern Song Dynasty wrote a poem "Spring Yin", "Trying to cook spring rice with wild vegetables is the February day in Jiangnan." Zhu Ben of the Southern Song Dynasty said, "The Guanhe River winds around the yellow sand, and the miserable wind is slanted." ”
Is it that the more you look at it, the more confused you are, or you don't know what chunyin is. Don't worry, wu Li, a famous painter of the Qing Dynasty, painted a "Spring Yin Diagram" to let you understand the meaning of the word without obstacles. Wu Li's entry point in his creation is the lush vegetation of spring, and he advises him to cherish the spring time. As a result, an ordinary landscape painting has a cultural connotation. He uses Dong Yuan's technique to depict landscapes and rivers, and the slender cattle hair is combined with the rendering, forming a jagged beauty. Then quickly follow Wu Li's perspective and see his understanding of "Spring Yin".
Wu Li Chun Yin Diagram
Wu Li is a talented painter, and some people say that he is a painter who does not do his job. In order to pursue his faith, he once stayed away from creation, and returned to the painting world to be an old man. Willful and talented are the two major labels on Wu Li's body. He learned Dong Yuan's technique of painting Chunyin, and in addition to the steep and dangerous peaks of the mountain, there was even a large scene of dense forests intertwined. Taking the ancient as a teacher, it is quite rare to maintain its own characteristics.
After "Chun Yin Tu" was given the theme of cherishing time, it had enough artistic height. Coupled with the perfection of pen and ink techniques, it can be called a god's completeness. In the history of the development of landscape painting, Dong Yuan is definitely a master painter. He inherited the creative concept of Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty, paying attention to the subtle texture effect formed by rendering. He uses relatively loose and stretched lines to depict the landscape of the hilly area of Jiangnan, focusing on the deep tranquility. When Wu Li painted the "Spring Yin Diagram", dong yuan's technique was reasonably changed. The mountains are majestic and the mountains are rugged, which makes people feel awe. Yes, to cherish time, we must fear time. Technique serves the content, and Wu Li has not forgotten the theme of the work.
Wu Li Chun Yin Figure Partial
Wu Li painted to the middle scene, and only then did the iconic features of Dong Yuan's technique appear. Gentle slopes of flat hills, streams of smoke and clouds, using the method of scattered perspective, showing full of vitality. Learning from the ancients was most afraid of hands and feet, and became a Handan toddler. The self-confidence that Wu Li shows in his creation makes people see how a talented painter faces antique creation. To take its meaning, for Wu Li, it is like hand-picking.
In terms of composition, Wu Li also has new ideas. The composition of Dong Yuan's works is mostly a head-up and down-looking angle, and Wu Li added an upward-looking angle to his creation. The angle changes, and the technique has to be adjusted. For wu li, this "Spring Yin Map" is no longer a simple learning imitation, and many places have added Wu Li's original techniques.
"Chunyin Map" presents a diversified sense of beauty, the characteristics of the southern climate, the characteristics of the northern mountains, and the characteristics of the hilly landforms of Jiangnan. If you don't grasp the scale, it will become a pot of stew. Adjusting the proportion of various techniques and forming his own painting style is a problem that Wu Li must solve.
Wu Li is very clever, he painted this work with ink, unifying the tonality of color, which also unified the pen and ink details. He uses a lot of light ink to supplement the details, paying attention to depicting the rural atmosphere. After reading Wu Li's creation, I understood the true meaning of the word "Spring Yin". The land is divided into north and south, and spring is not divided into north and south. Spring is coming, everything under the heavens is sprouting, spring is full of power, full of vitality. Spring is so beautiful, that's why we have to cherish it. Spring should be cherished, and all seasons of the year should also be cherished.
Sometimes I wonder if Wu Li had been obsessed with art all his life and had not run to pursue faith in middle age, would he have become the second Huang Gongwang. There will never be an answer to similar questions, but the more such questions, the more it shows that he occupied a pivotal position in the early Qing Dynasty painting world.