With a new style and freshness, we can stand alone in the painting world and become famous. For painters, especially modern painters, it is particularly important to seek innovation and change. There are many famous artists, ostensibly following the creative concept of taking the ancient as a teacher. In fact, they embarked on the artistic path of retro to innovation in their creation.
Retro is innovation, that is, borrowing from the past to open up the present. In all major art schools in the modern art world, some people have chosen this path. Among them, the famous Hai school artist Zhang Shiyuan began by studying the works of Wang Yi in the Qing Dynasty, and then studied the painting styles of the two Song Dynasties. Not only is the pen and ink exquisite and elegant, but it can also learn to use the compositional techniques of Western painting. How well he painted, you can see his antique landscape.
Zhang Shiyuan imitates the Li Tang landscape
"Imitation of Li Tang Landscape" is Zhang Shiyuan's work when he was 50 years old, which can basically represent his level and creative concept in antiques. From the painting, we can see his proposition that antiques should obey two "laws". Law one, imitation pen and ink. Law two, imitation aesthetic thought. Pen and ink techniques cannot be adjusted at will, and aesthetic ideas can be integrated with the spirit of the times. In other words, he reconstructed the magnificent mountains and rivers with a new aesthetic, and used a large axe to paint the beauty of the Jiangnan landscape and the beauty of the rigidity and softness.
Li Tang was in a period of change in landscape painting, when the two Song Dynasties alternated. From the Northern Song Dynasty painting academy to the streets of Jiangnan, Li Tang complained. He said, "When you know it, you can't see it, buy more rouge to paint peonies." Soon, Li Tang changed his style and joined the Southern Song Painting Academy, becoming the leading figure of landscape painting in the Southern Song Dynasty. Zhang Shiyuan's imitation of Li Tang's works is also to illustrate that only change is the driving force for the continuous development of landscape painting. If you only know retro and don't know innovation, you can't grasp the meaning of Li Tang's works.
Zhang Shiyuan imitates the Li Tang landscape partially
Next, you can see what new ideas Zhang Shiyuan has learned. Axe splitting, can express the texture of mountain stone. For modern times, the simple use of axe splitting techniques is too simple. Zhang Shiyuan cleverly simplified the lines, increased the rendering, and used bold and simple ink painting techniques to express the texture of mountain stones.
More wet pens, less dry pens, forming a dry and moist, mainly moist style. This sense of beauty is more enduring than the virtual reality, with the characteristics of calligraphic art, highlighting the rhythm of the brush on the paper.
Modern and modern masters have been exposed to a large number of Western paintings, and their compositions are inevitably influenced by Western painting. Zhang Shiyuan found that Li Cheng's landscape had significantly shrunk the main peak, so that the treatment was more in line with the results of naked-eye observation. As a result, Zhang Shiyuan once again reduced the main peak in the painting, implying the law of focal perspective.
This small change gives the viewer a strong sense of substitution. Looking closely, the smoke in the mountain does not cover the structure of the mountain, which is also to make people feel most intuitively. As far as the eye can see, the hills and ravines are longitudinal, and the beauty is boundless, which refers to the landscape in the painting.
Zhang Shiyuan is a master of color, and he adjusts the turquoise color in the ink color, which makes the whole work have a thick feeling. The reed grass nearby, very dense with the pen, is slightly oppressive and echoes with the distant mountains. After enjoying "Imitation of Li Tang Landscape", you will have more thinking about retro for innovation.