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Zhao Shaoang,"Red Leaf Singing Cicada"
Author: Zhao Shaoang
Name: "Red Leaf Singing Cicada"
Size: 83cmx29cm
Collection of Qingweilou Fine Arts Museum
Zhao Shaoang (1905~ 1998) Character Shuyi, male, Han ethnicity, originally from Panyu, Guangdong, Chinese painter. Zhao Shaoang was good at flowers, birds and animals, inheriting the tradition of the Lingnan School of painting and advocating the innovation of Chinese painting. His paintings can integrate ancient and modern, and draw on the expressions of foreign paintings, while paying attention to the creation of teachers. The works are concise and vivid, and they are well received by people.
Zhao Shaoang is proficient in color grading, pre-arranging several colors or ink colors, licking the head, belly and root of the brush in accordance with the order of thought, parts, writing in one stroke, when the next stroke is mixed with the color, the subtle changes in color are completed in a stroke between the moments, the glory and withering, the shades of nature, a stroke and have the unique skills of "shape, god, quality".
In this painting of "Red Leaf Cicada", the cicada in the picture is plump and full, the cicada wings are light and transparent, and the color rendering is very realistic and vivid. Master Zhao Shaoang grew up in a poor family, which created his high-spirited and bright temperament, and he was very fond of being a cicada and regarded himself as a cold cicada. His paintings of cicadas and shrimps of Qi Baishi and Xu Beihong's horses are called the three best in the modern and contemporary Chinese painting world. Master Zhao Shaoang was good at painting flowers and birds, and Xu Beihong also commented that "Zhao Jun flowers and birds are the first person in modern China, and it is rare to be out of his right." ”。
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Editor: Kong Xiaoyan
Review: Yang Xiangxiong
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