Wang Xuetao December Order Flower Album
Album (12 folio) Colored on paper
Size 34.5×24 cm, approx. 0.7 sq. ft. (each)
Lan Huifen, trail grass green,
A hundred flowers sprout.
Rose vine, cuckoo return,
Dreams of incense.
Plum fragrance, camellia burning,
Snowflakes six out.
The opening and closing of flowers throughout the year, with the flow of the seasons, cycle back and forth, not only makes people pleasing to the eye, but also brings people the most wonderful natural fragrance.
Wang Xuetao's "December Order" flower album was composed in the 1940s, and the twelve works depict the "flower god" of the Twelve Moon Order, with vivid pen and ink and bright colors, which is a typical small freehand painting style.
This volume is themed on one flower per month in December, namely plum blossom bamboo, apricot blossom butterfly, peach blossom bee, peony butterfly, durian horse bee, lotus dragonfly, jade hairpin tianniu, golden laurel spinning lady, orchid cricket, chrysanthemum dragonfly, camellia, daffodil grape, each work is exquisitely conceived, simple and interesting.
Whether it is the vividness of grass worms or the nickname of flowers and branches, the painter has seized the vitality of its instantaneous burst with keen observation and rich imagination, and created a vivid and colorful, vivid and lovely artistic image, with vivid and vivid shapes, meticulous portrayal, and combined with dexterous pen and ink, color and ink combination, color to help ink, ink to color, to add beautiful rhythm to the picture.
Wang Xuetao's "December Order"
New Moon: Plum blossoms
February: apricot blossoms
March: Peach blossoms
April: Peony blossoms
May: Pomegranate
June: Lotus
July: Jade hairpin flowers
August: Osmanthus flowers
September: Chrysanthemums
October: Orchids
November: Camellias
December: Narcissus