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.
Ming, Wen Zhengming, Guanshan Snow Picture Scroll, Color on Paper, 21.5x418cm, National Palace Museum, Taipei
In 1528, the 59-year-old Wen Zhengming and Wang Pet traveled with Wang Pet to the Lengga Mountain, where they spent the night in a temple on the Lengga Mountain. The snow was flying outside the window, and Wang Pet took out a pen and ink paper and asked Wen Zhengming to help him draw it, hoping to keep the rare beauty on the paper.
This painting lasted for five years.
In 1532, Wen Zhengming completed the creation of the "Snow Map of Guanshan Mountain", a long volume that vividly depicts the magnificent scenery of the mountains in winter. In the painting, the mountains are magnificent and snow-capped in winter, and the painter hooks out the images of mountains, water banks, pines, cottages, and figures, and the characters in the picture are mostly dressed in red, which makes the characters stand out between heaven and earth and is unique.
Sekiyama snow map roll part
The full width is elegant and thick, and the snow scene in the painting is rendered in a "blank" way, with light light stone blue, light stone green and light daisy as the main colors, and dark and light red is used to embellish the characters' trench coats, leaves, mountain temples, etc. The picture effect is strong, showing a quiet, spotless white world.
The inscription at the end of the scroll reads: "The ancient masters and gentlemen often like to write landscapes and rivers to entertain themselves. However, those who write more snow scenes, Gai wants to pretend to send his lonely and high meanings, if Wang Majie's Snow Creek Map, Li Cheng's Wanshan Flying Snow, Li Tang's Snow Mountain Pavilion, Yan Ciping's Cold Rock Snow, Guo Zhongshu's Snow Ji Jiangxing, Zhao Songxue's Yuan An Woxue, Huang Da's Nine Peaks Xueji, And Wang Shuming's Sword Pavilion, are all famous, and are popular in the past and present..." It can be seen from this that the painter's appreciation for the ancient people's snow landscape map also wants to express his "lonely and high"personality through the snow landscape.
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