Yun Nantian | created a boneless flower and bird for a lifetime of upheaval and displacement

Yun Nantian (1633-1690) was originally named Ge, the character is only large, a word Shouping after the character line, more character Zheng Uncle, the number Nantian, alias East Garden guest, East Garden Grass Cloth, Hengshan Qiao, Ouxiang Sanren, Yunxi Foreign History, Baiyun Outer History and so on. He was an outstanding painter in the history of Chinese painting, founded the "Changzhou School" and became one of the "Six Masters" in the early Qing Dynasty. He was named after Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yi, Wang Yuanqi, and Wu Li, and was collectively known as the "Four Kings wu yun". As the leader of the "Changzhou School", Nantian is not only good at landscape painting, especially the "boneless method" flower sketching is well-known in the painting world; he is also a poet and calligrapher, poetry, book and painting co-worker, with the reputation of "Nantian Three Absolute".

Yun Nantian's fate was bumpy and turbulent, but he devoted all his energy to painting art throughout his life, without interference from the world, and insisted on taking his own path of innovation. Yun Nantian inherited the tradition of flower and bird painting in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and innovated to form his own unique style, and the painting method is very neat, and the whole tone is fresh and beautiful, which is the "boneless method" he created. He played a role in the decline of flower paintings in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and had a huge impact on the painting world at that time. At that time, the painting world was based on landscape painting as a decent school, and his own level of landscape painting was also extremely high, but he never gave up the pursuit of realistic artistic innovation, and devoted most of his energy to the creation of flower and bird paintings. His paintings of flowers and birds are generally smaller, and fewer large surviving works are extinct.

Appreciation of works

《Double Clear Map》

《Spring Breeze Map》

Bamboo shoots in the Flower Album

Taro in flower albums

Cabbage in a Flower Album

Eggplant in the Flower Album

"Melon Vines in Flower Album"

The Grapes of the Floral Album

《Floral Diagram》

《Five Clear Maps》

《Lotus Reed Sketch Vertical Axis》

Peony Album

《Wuling Spring Color Map》

《Folding Branches and Peach Diagram》

"Lotus Reed Sketch"

《Sycamore Stone Diagram》

Floral Album

"Huzhuang Qingxia" Yun Shouping Wang Yi cooperated

"Taoyuan Map" Yun Shouping Wang Yi cooperated

Four Frames of Flowers