What is happiness? For the ancient literati, happiness was reading. If you read a book in a place with mountains and water, your happiness will be doubled. This painting "Quiet Reading in Qiulin" is the work of Qing Dynasty painter Cai Jia, depicting the reading life of the ancients. The painting is filled with a joyful tone, and while admiring the painting, it is as if you hear a cheerful piece of music. Then with a happy mood, look at this "Autumn Forest Quiet Reading".
Cai Jia is a native of Jiangsu and lives in Yangzhou, and he is good friends with Gao Xiang, Wang Shishen and other people in the Eight Monsters of Yangzhou. What a person likes, you can see who he makes friends with. Cai Jia did not belong to the Yangzhou School in terms of style, but his creative ideas were close to the Yangzhou School. Writing gods and transporting ink have become the two major characteristics of his creation.
Cai Jia Qiulin quiet reading
Writing about God is meant to express feelings. In painting, it specifically refers to the emphasis on the spiritual appeal of the painter. Qing dynasty painters used the artistic concepts of the like and the different, emphasizing the use of shapes to write gods. In "Autumn Forest Quiet Reading", Cai Jia set up a beautiful and elegant reading space. He depicts a courtyard in a top-down perspective. At first glance, this courtyard often appears in the pen of Gao Xiang, a famous artist of the Yangzhou School. Looking more closely, the courtyard he painted is full of peace and warmth, and it is not desolate at all.
The "radiance" that Cai Jia found is a stylistic feature of orthodoxy, and the works have obvious praise. A crane walks in the courtyard, adding a bit of "fairy spirit". Cai Jia hopes to express his understanding of happiness through a decorated space. From the color of the leaves in the courtyard, it can be inferred that the season in the painting is autumn. The autumn of Jiangnan is beautiful, the sky is high and cloudless, this is the brilliance he captured.
Cai Jia Qiulin quiet reading partial
Looking at Cai Jia's characteristics in terms of pen transportation, he likes to use wet pens to light colors. Wet pen is a basic technique for painting landscapes, and there is more water in the pen edge. Wet pen painting, easy to render, forming a rich texture effect. From the ancient trees in the near distance to the mountains in the distance, there is a sense of moisturizing beauty. This is the effect of the wet pen formation, of course, the wet pen is not easy to control, it is also obvious.
In order to form a contrast, Cai Jia used a dry brush when painting the near slope stone. Dry and wet, giving landscape painting the fun of water rhyme and ink chapter. This beauty of the details makes the whole work more attractive. Writing god and transporting ink, the two aspects work together, making this "Autumn Forest Quiet Reading" look different.
The novelty in "Autumn Forest Quiet Reading" appears naturally, and Cai Jia has a feeling in his creation, so how he paints makes people feel just right. Such works, with popular forms and exquisite pen and ink, are good paintings that are appreciated by both elegant and popular.
After seeing this painting, how happy it is to read, everyone can appreciate it. Good works, no preaching, no need to "cram the duck", like spring rain, moisturizing and silent.
Looking at the moist ink color again, I suddenly found that there was a strong vitality in it. It really responded to the words of Guo Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty, "The ink color is not moist, it is said to be dry." Dry, no business. "Giving up the dry, with vitality and joy, "Autumn Forest Quiet Reading" paints autumn fun and paints the dazzling beauty of all natural things.