In the early autumn, when the heat dissipated and the cool breeze was gusting, a painter named Wu Yansi began to miss his hometown, so he painted this painting "Ancient Temple of Mountains and Forests". Wu Yansi is a native of Jiangsu, and the history of painting says that he inherited the painting style of the Song people, and his pen and ink were light and elegant. From this painting "Ancient Temple of Mountains and Forests", it can be seen that the objects of his study are also the brushwork of Yuan Ren and the poetic feelings of the Wumen School of painting in the Ming Dynasty.
Painting landscapes, it is easy to see good or bad. The author has hills and ravines in his chest in order to paint a deep and quiet landscape. Counting the levels in the painting, you can basically see the level of the painter. This "Ancient Temple of Mountains and Forests" uses the "Three Distant Methods" in composition, constructing a hierarchy from three angles: pingyuan, high and far-reaching.
Wu Shansi Ancient Temple
The Sanyuan method is a composition method summarized by the famous Northern Song Dynasty artist Guo Xi, which can be combined with this "Ancient Temple of Mountains and Forests" to understand the emphasis on layering in traditional landscape paintings. Pingyuan, looking into the distance from near. Flat, not without change, but the meaning of gradient. "Mountain Forest Ancient Temple" from near to far is, waterfront grass pavilion, layer forest hut, deep mountain ancient temple, water and sky color, distant mountains such as Dai. The scenery is layered and naturally transitioned, and there are bright and obscure, which is the characteristic of the Pingyuan method.
Takato, look up at the top of the mountain from the foot of the mountain. When Wu Yansi painted the local scenery, he adopted the angle of looking up, making the mountain look more magnificent. The high-level method can make the picture level have a clear distinction between primary and secondary, emphasizing the key points. The ancients called it, "The high-minded know." ”
Wu Yansi Shanlin Ancient Temple Partial
After seeing the mountain from the front of the mountain, this is the far-reaching law. If you can have a "clairvoyant eye", you must properly arrange the picture level. The ancients painted landscapes a bit like the "layers" in picture production, first there are layers, and then consider synthesis. The far-reaching method is to tell the painter how to overlap.
There is a lot of overlap between the close-up and middle scenes of "Mountain Forest Ancient Temple", and Wu Yansi uses pen and ink changes to distinguish them. Where the pen is finely broken, such as the ancient woods of the dense forest, the ink color is used to break the single stiffness. When you need to render a large area, use the force of the pen to increase the variation. There are changes in the overlap, depicting the scenery of the endless sky and high mountains of the creek and mountains.
Wu Yansi successfully used the Three Distance Method to solve the sense of layering of the picture, which made people see that the Song landscape technique still had vitality in the Qing Dynasty. Many people will ask why when they see traditional landscape paintings, they think of the connotations of seclusion, freedom and life. It is because the traditional technique has been passed down for thousands of years, and people have a common understanding of the emotions expressed in ink painting, so that they can appreciate the charm in the painting.
"Mountain Forest Ancient Temple" is permeated with the beauty of solemnity and elegance, and secretly hides homesickness. This is not a random statement, but it is felt through themes, techniques, and forms of expression.
Through the "Ancient Temple of Mountains and Forests", I learned about the Three Distant Methods and understood the importance of the level of landscape painting. If you understand the level in the painting, you will understand the principle that pen and ink do not separate families. If you understand all this, you will understand the spiritual world of the painter and know what he wants to express through creation.