The snow scene is a wonderful masterpiece of nature, without any trace of artificial carving, a variety of forms, with the shape of things, making people feel relaxed and reverie. In traditional Chinese landscape painting, snow landscape is one of the most beloved and influential subjects, and is deeply loved by literati and scholars from ancient times to the present.
Zhong Qinli's "Snow Creek Boat Map"
"Snow Creek Boat Painting" is a landscape painting created by the Ming Dynasty painter Zhong Qinli, which is also his representative work. Vertical shaft, silk, ink pen, length 179. 8 cm, width 103. 2 cm. Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Zhong Qinli, year of birth and death unknown, was a native of Jishan and Shangyu, Zhejiang. Painting landscapes with thick brushes, horizontal scraping and external strength, learning to wear and then changing. During the years of Chenghua and Hongzhi, he entered the Naojinji Hall and was a top master among the painters of the Inner Court.
The painting shows the fisherman's boat on the cold creek after the snow, the picture is cold and quiet, the distant peaks are covered with snow, the outline of the mountain is outlined with heavy ink lines, the branches are bent vigorously, the layers are clear, the composition is rigorous, there are openings and closures, with the strong characteristics of jiangnan landscapes, deep snow bone water rhyme.
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