See the 12 paintings of the "Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty" at the doorstep, enjoyable!

The "Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty" refers to Wang Shimin, Wang Yuanqi, Wang Jian, and Wang Yi.

Recently, 12 of their works can be seen in the "Orthodox Weather - Exhibition of Lou Dong School Paintings from the Imperial Palace In Shenyang".

This newspaper, together with the Liaoning Provincial Museum, the Palace Museum in Shenyang, the Zhang Shuaifu Museum, the Shenyang Museum, the Xinle Site Museum and other important cultural and cultural venues in the Liaoshen area, combs through the cultural relics and treasures exhibited in its permanent and temporary exhibitions, classifies and recommends them to you, and displays the rare treasures that can be seen at the doorstep of your home. If you have a treasure of cultural relics that you would like to recommend, you can also tell this newspaper.

The audience set up a color antique landscape map when shooting Wang. Liaoshen Evening News reporter Zha Jinhui photographed

Taicang is bordered by the sea in the east and the Lou River in the west, which was called Loudong in ancient times. Since ancient times, the economy has developed and civilization has flourished. This is the birthplace of Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, and here also gave birth to an extremely important school of painting in the history of Chinese art, which not only dominated the entire Qing Dynasty painting world, but its influence has even continued to this day. This is the "Loudong School" with Wang Shimin, Wang Yuanqi, Wang Jian, and Wang Yi as the core of the "Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty".

Readers who love calligraphy and painting, the feast is coming. A few days ago, the "Orthodox Weather - Shenyang Imperial Palace Courtyard Collection of Loudong School of Painting Works Exhibition" was launched, in this exhibition you can enjoy more than 20 paintings of the representative painters of the Loudong School, including the "Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty", and the reporter will focus on recommending 3 works of the "Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty" for you.

According to reports, the "four kings of the early Qing Dynasty" refers to Wang Shimin, Wang Yuanqi, Wang Jian, and Wang Yi. Also known as the Four Kings of Jiangzuo. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the "Four Kings School" supported by the Qing royal family became the dominant figure in the field of painting, and Wang Jian, Wang Shimin, Wang Yi, and Wang Yuanqi successively became masters of the painting world. The four people's painting style is close, according to the psychological stereotype of the traditional aesthetic model, and at that time, it dominated the painting world with an orthodox status. The "Four Kings" belong to the orthodox painting school, but also belong to the humanistic painters, they advocate the painting style of Nanzong, the Song, Yuan, Ming masters of the techniques integrated, the formation of their own pen and ink programs, and became the leader of a generation of landscape painting, influenced the landscape painting for nearly a hundred years, the level of Chinese painting brush and ink development to an unprecedented height.

Specifically, Wang Shimin has brought the ancient style of landscape painting in the early Qing Dynasty to the extreme. In terms of intention, layout, pen movement, color, line, etc., they have reached the pinnacle of perfection, pen and ink are subtle, cangrun and loose, thick and clean; Wang Jian has been personally taught by Dong Qichang in his early years, absorbing and transforming the pen and ink structure of the ancients, forming his own rich language of landscape painting. Its ink is thick, the trees are dense, the ravines are deep, the ingenuity is rendered, the method is refreshing and ethereal, and there is the length of ShenXiong's ancient elegance; Wang Yi studied under Wang Shimin and Wang Jian, and collected a wide range of masters, gathered the great achievements of the families, and melted the northern and southern painting schools into one furnace, creating a kind of Huazi thick and imposing landscape painting style; Wang Yuanqi was the grandson of Wang Shimin, and the landscape painting was directly derived from his grandfather's commitment to the ancients, and the forms were rich. He claims to have a vajra pestle at the end of the pen, likes to burn ink with a dry pen, and uses layers of rubbing with a pen to be calm.

In this exhibition, you can see 12 works by Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yi and Wang Yuanqi, including Wang Shimin's ink pen Yungu Qiao Songtu, Wang Jian's ink pen imitation Dongyuan landscape map, Wang Yuanqi's color landscape map, etc.

At the same time, the exhibition also exhibits the works of other major painters besides the "Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty" of the Loudong School, including the works of Wang Yu, Wang Jiu, Wang Chen, and Wang Yu, known as the "Little Four Kings", such as Wang Yu's ink pen antique landscape atlas, Wang Yu's color landscape atlas, Wang Chen's imitation of Huang Gongwang landscape scroll, Wang Jiu's green mountain light and water color map, etc. In addition, there are works by Huang Ding, Wang Jiu, Wang Xuehao, Zhang Zongcang, Fang Shishu, Dong Bangda, Qian Weicheng and other Loudong painters. By reproducing the ink rhyme, color and artistic style of the Loudong School, the exhibition allows the audience to gain a deeper understanding of the "Loudong School" that is important in the history of Chinese art and feel the artistic charm of its works.

Pay attention to these 3 works of the "Four Kings of the Early Qing Dynasty"

Wang Shimin Yungu Qiao Song tu axis

1637 (Ming Chongzhen Decade)

Pen on paper, pencil and vertical shaft

Mountains and valleys, pines and lush cages, and village houses are scattered. The pen and ink are carefully done, which shows Huang Gongwang's penmanship. The upper left part of the picture is self-titled: "Ding Ugly Ziyue Writing, Old Mr. ShouyunGu, Eight Dragon King Shimin", the lower plutonium "Wang Shimin" white text square seal. The lower part of the picture on the left and right is "Sun Yufeng Treasure Seal", "Jin Gongbo Jingjian Seal", "Divine Product in the Xiang Pavilion", "Ti'an Treasure Reward", "Xiyi", "Ti'an Zangfeng Chang Painting", "Hongyi Zhai Calligraphy and Painting Record" and other collection seals.

Wang Jian imitates the Dongyuan landscape map axis

1663 (2nd year of Qing Kangxi)

The main peak is towering, the side peaks overlap, the mountain stream waterfall, the lower stream, the side of the clear stream, the mountain road is winding, the wild bridge is horizontal, the grass is scattered, and the trees are competing. This painting is a quasi-Dongyuan landscape, with complicated brushwork and muddy ink. The upper right titles seven unique poems: "The clouds do not count the depth of the mountains, and the remote land is never visited." Mo Wei Pi Tu became a sentence, and the chai gate was opened to CuiFeng. After the signature: "癸卯小春, imitation Beiyuan pen, Wang Jie", the side plutonium "Yuanzhao" Zhu Wenyuan seal, the "Dyeing Xiang An Lord" Bai Wen Fang seal, the first quotation of the poem "Xiangbi" Zhu Wen chang square seal. In the lower right corner of the picture, the plutonium is printed with the "Yanghe Zhai Calligraphy and Painting".

Wang YuanQi landscape map axis

1715 (54th year of the Qing Dynasty)

Colored vertical shaft on paper

The distant mountains are continuous, the steep peaks are straight up, and the path leads to the valley temple; the lower part is the brook bank with lush trees, the left stone bridge, pavilion, and green bamboo; the right slope bank, the water pavilion, the steep peak is towering, settled in three or five people's homes. The pen and ink are smooth and concise, and the colors are bright and beautiful. The upper part of the painting is self-titled to study the feeling of ancient paintings, and the inscription after the text is: "Kangxi Yi Weiqing and painting and painting, Wang Yuan Qi Nian seventy has four", the full text of the first quotation "Royal Book Painting Picture Left with People to See" Zhu Baiwen Waist Circle Double Dragon Seal, the lower section of the "Wang Yuan Qi Seal" White Text Square Seal, "Lu Tai" Zhu Wen Square Seal. In the lower left corner of the figure, the "Descendants of Xilu" Zhu Wenfangyin is printed, and in the lower right corner is the Zhu Wen Rectangular Seal of "Liu Haisu Family Treasure".

Source: Liaoshen Evening News reporter Zhu Bailing

Editor: Cui Taoran