Jin Tingbiao was a Painter of the Qing Dynasty, born in Huzhou, Zhejiang. During Qianlong's southern tour, Jin Tingbiao presented paintings, which were deeply loved by the emperor and became a court painter. Jin Tingbiao's technique is comprehensive, and he can paint landscapes, figures, flowers, birds, fruits and vegetables and other subjects, making him a leader among court painters. This "Journey to the Creek and Mountains" is a landscape he created, and judging from the degree of completion of the work, it is his middle and late works.
"Travel Map" is a common subject in landscape painting, depicting the interaction between people and landscapes. In ancient landscape painting, there have been mature travel maps since the Five Dynasties period, and painters often lack creative passion in the face of such classic and common subjects. Paintings can be divided into two categories according to the motivation of creation, one is to feel and develop, and the other is propositional creation. Which kind of "Journey to the Creek and Mountains" that Jin Tingbiao paints belongs to?
Jin Tingbiao Xishan Travel
There are a lot of details of life in the painting, such as in order to highlight the freshness, Jin Tingbiao painted a journey in the rain. Pedestrians on the road put umbrellas, and fishermen on the water wear cloaks. In the distance, there are farmers bending down to plant rice. Such rich details show that this painting is not a propositional work, but a feeling of Jin Ting..
Jin Tingbiao's creation was inspired by the imagination of the court nobles for the happy life of the people. The Qianlong Emperor was so happy that he toured the south many times in addition to eating, drinking and having fun, just to feel the happiness brought by prosperity and prosperity. Imagine how happy the emperor would have been when Jin Tingbiao presented such a painting. Gentle wind and drizzle cannot stop the people's pursuit of a better life. This "horse ass" should make the emperor happy.
Jin Tingbiao Xishan Travel Partial
Jin Tingbiao did not learn too much from the style of the Four Kings in his creation, but learned the style of the Wumen School of painting in the Ming Dynasty. Several famous artists of the Wumen School are very good at painting delicate and lyrical works, which are naturally fresh and beautiful. The right style can show the beauty of life.
The mountains are steep, the mountains are heavy, the rain ripples, and there is no feeling of cold and lonely. Kim has found a particularly good entry point, he is beautifying life, but it does not make people feel contrived. Through solid techniques, he has given the traditional theme a fresh feeling. Wind and rain and smooth, its happy and harmonious travel map, thus born.
Jin Tingbiao is a master of using ink, and he shows the endless magnificence and vastness of the country through the thickness, density and weight of the ink. The famous masters of the predecessors used this theme to express their worries, and Jin Tingbiao used this theme to express comfortable satisfaction. Among them, there is the merit of the appropriate use of ink color, light ink to create an endless sense of depth, and thick ink to play a finishing touch. Starting from the emphasis on the realism of space, express the sincerity and heat of feelings.
People are on the road, full of surprises, And Jin Tingbiao has changed people's fixed perception of travel maps. The kind of "heaven and earth are one against the journey, and the same sorrow is the same" has become the past tense, and enjoying the prosperity of the Taiping and prosperous world has become the theme of his performance.
Techniques are not easy to break through, and perceptions can be constantly changing. When the breakthrough of technique and the mutation of perception are combined, the painting has a sense of freshness. The classic theme travel map has a different feeling under Jin Tingbiao's pen.