The tiger is originally a symbol of strength and might, not to mention its own appearance is still high, very picturesque. However, although tigers were a serious traditional painting subject in ancient China, most of the tigers painted by the ancients were "not very serious". There is a pejorative idiom "draw a tiger according to a cat", but this was actually the norm for ancient painters to draw tigers. Many ancient painters painted tigers according to cats, but they only painted more fiercely and exaggeratedly. Because in ancient times, very few painters had the opportunity to see real tigers, let alone sketch on tigers. Fortunately, the ancients were not too demanding of realism, so everyone let go of their hands and flowers to paint up, but also formed a very special, decorative plastic art.
(Qing Silla Shanren "Tiger Howling Map") But not all strangely painted tigers are not like them because the painter has never seen a real tiger. For example, the Silla Shanren's "Tiger Howling Map", it also has a sister article in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, called "Bee Tiger Diagram". The tiger in the painting is also like this, and a horse bee is parked in the treetops behind it. It turned out that the tiger was embarrassed by the sting of the horse bee. The tiger in the "Tiger Howling Map" is also a general instigation, and the inscription on the painting reads: "There is a sound in autumn at the foot of the old mountain, and the tiger whistles and the valley sounds." "The majestic poetry is accompanied by a tiger-like look, and the humor is supreme. Reminiscent of the old man's "paper tiger" theory, I can't help but wonder. Modern painters have the conditions that the ancients did not have to carefully observe the tiger, so the tiger painting is becoming more and more realistic. Zhang Daqian's brother Zhang Shanxiao, in order to paint a portrait of a tiger, even raised a real tiger in the private garden of the Master of Nets, and accompanied him day and night. Nowadays, it is no longer as difficult for painters to paint like tigers as the ancients, and there is no need to raise tigers at home. The image information about the tiger is extremely rich, and the mirroring technology is various, not only is it not difficult to paint the tiger to a fine point, but even the phrase "it is difficult to draw the skin of the tiger and draw the bone" is outdated - is it difficult to find some anatomical drawings of the tiger? As a result, a large number of painters famous for painting tigers have emerged in modern times. If only the "image" is used as a criterion to evaluate, modern painters are beyond the reach of the ancients. But things must be reversed. For modern people who can see real tigers as long as they go to the zoo, it is not fun to see realistic tiger paintings. Painting like it is not fun, painting is not fun. So I saw that in the year of the tiger, many serious painters painted the unorthodox tiger. And most of these painters are not known for their tiger paintings. Anyway, I don't rely on painting tigers to eat, I want to paint and paint. Landscape painter Pang Fei painted a newly married couple of dumb tigers. But how do I feel like they're speechless watching a football game. (Pang Fei's "Nong Yin Double Happiness") Pang Fei is not the only one who takes the silly and cute route. The young painter Xu Chen's painting of "A Ball of Harmony" is a tiger's back shrunk into a small ball. He borrowed a general brushwork of paper-cutting, which is unforgettable.
(Xu Chen's "A Ball of Harmony") is always interesting in reverse. The tiger is mighty, but Luo Ying wants to paint it as a spoiled child. Even the name of the painting exudes a delicate breath - "Hmm". This "hmm" word should probably be dragging a long tone with a turn. (Luo Ying, "Hmm") Ma Xiaojuan and Liu Yaping each painted a tiger in the painting world. Liu Yaping's tiger, at first glance, is the true legend of the ancients, that "crooked seven twists and eights" look, exaggerated and vivid colors, the traditional folk plastic arts play out of the sense of the times. Ma Xiaojuan's tiger is also a traditional folk custom - a fat baby wearing a tiger hat, full of joy. (Liu Yaping's "Tiger Wei Gaosheng Map") (Ma Xiaojuan's "Tiger Head tiger brain") Graphite borrowed a tiger painting style that was quite popular in this year's New Year's Chart, and inscribed the voice of people who have been trapped in the epidemic for a long time: The outside world is wonderful. (Graphite "The Outside World is Wonderful") Zhang Peicheng's tiger looks fierce, but looking at the surrounding sea of flowers, the tiger seems to be a little confused, and does not know whether to insist on this beautiful scenery - (Zhang Peicheng"Tiger into the Flowers" Many painters make their own New Year cards. Chen Shanglong's computer greeting card tiger is really fierce and charming. In fact, this technique is very traditional, just like Zhang Fei's appearance in Peking Opera, mighty with three points of charm.
(Chen Shanglong's "Tiger Mountain") He Xi and I both drew the tiger tail in unison. A butterfly stopped on the tail of He Xi's tiger, which reminded me of the tiger stung by the horse bees in the Silla Mountains, and lamented that the tiger was the same as the tiger.
I just happened to find an orange-red cardboard, which is the color of the tiger, so I saved the procedure of coloring the tiger and left it blank. Someone asked me, why do I draw a tiger's tail? I said, Tiger Tail, Tiger Wei also!
In fact, lazy, can not say.
(He Xi, "Tiger Fragrance")