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.
"Snow Scene Cold Forest Map", Fan Kuan, Silk, Ink, 193.5cm×160.3cm
"Snow Scene Cold Forest Map" is an ink painting on silk created by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Fan Kuan, which is a large painting of three pieces of silk. It is now in the collection of Tianjin Museum.
The painting depicts a magnificent scene of mountains and rivers after winter snow in the north. In the picture, the snow is white, the peaks are thick and dignified, and the momentum is magnificent and majestic, vividly showing the majestic weather after the snow in the Qinlong Mountains and Rivers.
The composition of this painting continues Fan Kuan's consistent panoramic style, and a bend of spring water is in the foreground of the picture. Occupying most of the frame is a mountain that winds upwards, giving people a majestic momentum. The whole painting is arranged in a strict and orderly manner, and the pen and ink are simple and thick.
Part of "Snowy Cold Forest Map"
The brush ink is thick and moist, and the layers are clear. The painter skillfully uses techniques such as rubbing and rendering, he outlines the mountain stones and forest trees with thick lines, uses the "grab the pen" brushwork, dense dots to collect clusters, and uses the fine "raindrops" to show the texture of the northern mountain stones, the picture is thick and moist, calm and elegant.
When the painter is still rubbing and dyeing, he pays attention to leaving blank space on the slope and the top of the mountain to show the snow scene.
In the trunk of the tree in the foreground of the picture, the signature of "Chen Fan Kuan System" is faintly visible, because the handwriting is not easy to identify because of the age, whether this picture is Fan Kuan's work, in recent years, there are still different views among painting historians, but it is recognized as a masterpiece in the Fan school of the Northern Song Dynasty.
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