The world of ice and snow has always been a favorite and competitive depiction of literati and scholars throughout the ages.
The whiteness and immaculate whiteness of ice and snow give people a symbol and metaphor of noble personality, as a unique category of Chinese painting, snow landscape painting can create a unique desolate realm of Chinese painting, both visually and emotionally.
Therefore, many famous artists in the past generations have been keen on the creation of snow landscapes and landscapes, leaving us with a large number of classics.
《The First Snow map of the river line》
This "Picture of the First Snow of the River" was painted by zhao Gan, a painter of the Fifth Dynasty Southern Tang Dynasty. Ink on silk, 25.9 cm in length and 376.5 cm in width, the original is stored in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The painting in "The First Snow of the River" is the scenery of Jiangnan, and the painter depicts the scenery of the fishermen on the river bank through the depiction of louguan, boats, water villages, fishing markets, etc., when the leaves fall and the north wind whistles.
In the picture, the sky is cold, the world is white, and the cold wind blows the water surface to form ripples. The fishermen on the river are fishing in spite of the cold, while the donkey riders on the shore are cowering, which is a wonderful contrast.
Part of "The First Snow Map of the River Trip"
The painter's technique is skillful and lively. The trees and stones in the painting are hard and strong, the water patterns are sharp and fluent, and the dead trees in the cold forest are all with a center-forward round pen, which is strong and powerful. The trunks are dyed with dry brushes, the reeds are painted, and the powder is wrapped in ochre ink, which is very creative, and the hills and slopes are also painted in pieces of light ink without wrinkles.
The painter also used white powder to make a small snow in the sky, depicting the scene of snowflakes flying lightly into the water and dissolving, which is really exquisite.
Whether it is reeds, trails, banqiao, slopes, trees, etc. intertwined in the picture, there is an obvious sense of rhythm and rhythm, and all the characters are also rich in expressions and postures.
The whole painting has a vivid character image, the atmosphere is lush and ancient, and the artistic conception is elegant and remote. As a painter of the Southern Tang Dynasty court, Zhao Gan focused his pen and ink on ordinary laborers and their real living conditions, presenting us with a rare realist work.
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