Hello everyone, I am Longge, today we come to talk: "Why do bada mountain people always love to roll their eyes when they paint fish?"
First, when it comes to the fish that rolls its eyes, we will first think of the Bada Shanren, so let's first understand his personal situation:
Zhu Yun (1626 – c. 1705) was a painter of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and a master of the Chinese painting generation. The word snow, the number of bad mountain people, geshan, donkey house, etc., Jiangxi Nanchang people.
Bada Shanren, his people are good at calligraphy and painting, his landscape paintings are mostly ink, patriarchal Dong Qichang, both Huang Gongwang and Ni Zhan, he uses Dong Qichang's brushwork to paint landscapes, but there is no beautiful and peaceful, clear and elegant style, but dry and lonely, full of desolation, reflecting his lonely and indignant state of mind and resolute personality. His achievements in flower and bird paintings are particularly outstanding, and he also has the most personality.
Second, the Bada Shanren, whose paintings are like their own people, were deeply affected by the historical environment at that time:
Remember that the Bada Shanren had an inscription poem:
There are no more ink spots and more tears, and the mountains and rivers are still the old mountains and rivers.
The coconut tree of the chaotic world is left in the forest.
Note: The poem is also like its person, which shows that the era in which the Bada Shan people lived made him suffer a lot...
Since the suicide of Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has also perished. Then this inscription poem also expresses the commemoration of the Bada Shan people to their homeland.
At the same time, due to the special life of bada Shanren and the background of the times in which he lived, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, in order to avoid the persecution of the Qing Dynasty's literary prison, his paintings could not be as direct as other painters, but through his obscure inscription poems and strange deformation paintings to express the mood of national destruction and family death.
For example, he paints fish and birds, with a few strokes, or elongates his body, or tightens a clump, leaning over.
In particular, the pair of eyes, sometimes an oval shape, are not the eyes of the fish and birds that we see in our lives, the eyes of the fish and birds in life are round, and the eyeballs do not rotate in the center.
The eyes of the fish and birds of the Bada Shan people can be turned, and sometimes they roll their eyes and stare at people. The mountain stone he painted was not like the usual painter's painting, it was round and round, big and small, top-heavy, and he wanted to rest wherever he wanted, and whether it was stable or not, whether it could stand or not.
Third, finally, to sum up the eight mountain people:
Most of his paintings are lyrical, using symbolic techniques to express allegory, personifying objects and images, and pinning their feelings on their feelings. Picturesque fish and birds once made a "white eye to people" to express cynicism.
"Bada Shanren" is the most famous painter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zhu Yun is a descendant of the Ming Dynasty, born of the nobility, the Ming Dynasty qingxing, his heart is unbalanced, so he is dissatisfied with society, and expresses this emotion in his paintings, and is mainly reflected in the eyes of the animals he paints, so his paintings of deer, fish, and birds are all rolling their eyes.
Bada Shanren is good at ink painting, which is a kind of painting method that has emerged since the Song and Yuan dynasties. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, many literati ink painting masters appeared, and the Bada Shanren was one of its epoch-making representatives.
Well, the ancient sages are lonely, today we will talk about this first, and finally chant a poem, to show a little respect to the Bada Shan people!
The Fish
Born in the rivers and lakes, it should have been a getaway.
The road of the wind and clouds, helpless to destroy the dream of the country.
Now when painting poetry, fish eyes laugh at the world.
Fools can't see through it, and Zhu is drunk and speechless.