Some of the works before the master of painting became famous looked more interesting, Qi Baishi's works were not favored by everyone, or Xu Beihong took him to be recognized by the painters of the Beijing Circle School.
For a long time, if a great painter was not welcomed, the style of their work was actually completely different.
Just like writing, the mood is different, and the works painted are naturally different.
A work by Wu Wei, a representative figure of Ming Dynasty painting, named Hanshan Snow Map, is treasured in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Wu Wei belongs to a key painting representative master of the Zhejiang School, he has been a good wine all his life, and his painting skills and skills are excellent. According to ye shi records, Wu Wei was valued by the imperial court during the xianzong and xiaozong periods, but he was not accustomed to the officials playing with the magnates.
Eventually he returned to the countryside, but was later summoned by Emperor Wuzong, suffering from the fact that he had nowhere to find pleasure in the future, and the life he wanted could not be realized. In the end, he drank heavily, and died of drunkenness every day.
The same is true of Wu Wei's words, and you can feel his unruly personality from his painting and brushwork skills.
Wu Wei's picture of the snow in the cold mountains is said to have been created by him after drinking a lot of wine. The character in the painting is estimated to be himself, and the most characteristic of this work is the treatment of flying white and dot ink, and even in the same period, it can be called the greatest master of Chinese painting.
Especially in the later period, some people call Wu Wei's painting characteristics, just like Zhang Daqian's splashed ink landscape paintings, Wu Wei's painting skills are better than Zhang Daqian's.
Looking closely at the work, Wu Wei used a very fast flying white, and then the layers of brushstrokes and the cooperation of ink dots painted the entire vista landscape.
This is like Zhang Daqian's splash of ink, and even more difficult, because when depicting the contour line of the mountain, Wu Wei also needs to express the texture and volume of the mountain stone. Therefore, under his super painting skills, we can feel the spiritual strength he left to everyone different in Chinese painting.
The white space shows the scenery of the snow covering the hills, which is very similar, and it seems to be a simple brushstroke, but it actually belongs to him deliberately creating a dry cold in the cold winter. Two dwarfs, the feeling of loneliness embodied in the sense of line is extremely strong.
It seems that there is not a little snow in the painting, but it can be well integrated with the central idea of the painting. The cold characters are reflected in the near and far scenes, and the details of the paintings of the two figures can also be seen, which can really be said to be a wonderful painting.