True artists hate the sameness the most, even if the imperial court has established a painting academy, when the northern school of landscape is popular, some people jump out to engage in their own personalized creations.
Who is so innovative?
Of course, he was born in a high-ranking official's family, did not worry about eating or wearing, and was an uninhibited "Mi Qian" - Mi Fu and his son Mi Youren!
"Rice Worship Stone Diagram"
Mi Fu I have already introduced in the article "The calligrapher who was admired by Dong Qichang as the first person below Wang Xizhi was an idiot", and I will not repeat his life.
In any case, Mi Fu's calligraphy and paintings are all marked by the people who did not follow the predecessors. Although he had studied Dong Yuan's painting method, he felt that he had not found something suitable for expression. Therefore, he extracted the painting method of dots from Dong Yuan's cloak, and according to his own feelings about the landscape of Jiangnan, he used ink sprinkling dot dyeing to express the trees and mountains in the smoke and rain, forming his own unique "rice dot landscape" painting method.
Cloaked in numbness
Rice dots
This kind of dot painting method is also known as "falling eggplant" or "rice dot dot", which is actually a kind of freehand painting method that replaces dots with dots, which is especially suitable for expressing the smoke and rain scenery in Jiangnan.
Mi Fu called this painting method "ink play", did not seek embellishment, advocated innocence, and fully expressed the aesthetic taste of the literati doctor.
It should be known that before Mi Fu, landscape painting is advocating the depiction of natural mountain and river scenery, Mi Fu's style of writing with letter and pen without seeking detailed work is actually a rebellion against the "shape-like" and "Gefa" in the painting academy at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, he pays more attention to lyrical poetry and literati taste, and pursues god-likeness, rather than painting carefully for the sake of realistic realism.
However, we can't see the original work of Mi Fu now, but fortunately there are still the works of his son Mi Youren.
Mi Youren was the eldest son of Mi Fu (米芾), the character Yuanhui,000 yuanhui (高宗時官至工部侍郎), a scholar of Shiwenge, known as "Xiaomi" (should Lei Jun consider using Mi Youren as an image spokesperson?). ）
Although he became an official, he was still "damaged" by his father in art - Mi Youren painted landscapes "its atmosphere Xiao Nai Weng", which is also "a little smoke cloud, grassy".
Mi Youren's most famous work is "Xiaoxiang Wonder Map".
"Xiaoxiang Wonders"
The 19.8 cm in length and 289.5 cm in width is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
In the past, landscape painters mostly used painting silk, but "Xiaoxiang Wonders" used rice paper to paint, so the absorption and halo of ink color was very sufficient.
Mi Youren makes full use of the characteristics of rice paper, using large brush strokes to splash ink, ink follow the pen, in the large pen painting block surface, to add vertical, horizontal, falling eggplant and other points, supplemented by lines with hooks and rubbing. Through the organic combination of pen and ink, the smoke clouds are displayed in different shades of ink, so that Mi's Cloud Mountain has both moist and somber characteristics.
This painting method makes all the scenery look "faint", but it also captures the feeling of heavy clouds and mountains on the river and the unpredictable fog.
It just so happens that modern people also took this photo with a camera ,"I Dreamed I Was Lost in the Xiaoxiang Picture Scroll", and everyone can compare and see if it is like it.
Hong Lei, "I Dreamed that I Was Lost in the Xiaoxiang Picture Scroll"
More than 700 years later, the French painter Monet used similar techniques to paint french ports shrouded in morning fog, known as the pioneering work of Impressionist painting, which caused a major revolution in the history of world art.
[Law] Monet's "Sunrise"
There are not many of Mi Youren's heirloom works, because he was self-respecting after becoming an official, and the paintings he painted were difficult to get even for relatives and friends, so some people wrote poems and ridiculed: "It is a rootless tree that can depict the clouds; now it is offered to the emperor and refuses to be with idle people." ”
——Here is a "rootless tree" to explain a little: that is, the tree painted by Mi Youren is basically a boneless painting method, no line, directly one or two strokes are drawn into the trunk, and the roots are integrated into the soil and stones, so it is called "rootless tree".
The rootless tree Hazy Mountain in "Xiaoxiang Wonders"
It is this kind of Mi's landscape, known as "rootless tree, hazy mountain", which has changed the tradition of Chinese painting heavy lines, with ink color, smudging and dyeing, more freehand and lyrical, so that landscape painting has more "literati ink drama" meaning, epoch-making to establish the aesthetic perspective and emotional artistic conception of literati painting, attracting more literati inkers to participate in painting creation, and greatly improving the artistic level and cultural conception of Chinese painting.
Now, there is also a painting of "Yun Shan De Intention" that is considered to be the work of Mi Youren, I will not explain it, everyone appreciates it by themselves.
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