Painting landscapes cannot be made behind closed doors, and it is necessary to visit the world's famous mountains and rivers to accumulate materials. Copying the works of predecessors can quickly accumulate creative skills, but it is impossible to fully grasp the creative ideas of predecessors. Only in the natural landscape can you integrate traditional techniques. This is the relationship between the tradition of the teacher and the creation of the teacher, and the famous painter Gong Xian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was deeply impressed by this. He attaches great importance to traditional pen and ink, and pays attention to the ancient method and ancient meaning of pen and ink. He also attaches great importance to observing nature, using sharp pens and bald pens to simulate the smooth and simple nature of natural landscapes.
This "Kuang Lu Flying Waterfall" is a late work of Gong Xian, and Kuang Lu is Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi. From the momentum presented in the painting, we can know that Gong Xian must have traveled in the field, and the composition of the whole painting is full of delicacy and full of momentum. In the middle of the painting, the mountains are stacked, the ravines are longitudinal, the ancient trees are forested, and the waterfalls flow springs cover the endless beauty of Lushan Mountain.
Gong Xian Kuang Lu Flying Waterfall
In his later years, Gong Xian loved to use a bald pen, emphasizing the charm of wanting to show and grow old. Old, there is also a skilled, precise meaning. It means that Gong Xian's writing is accurate and full of strength in his creation, and he paints a beautiful and beautiful feeling. The painting is covered with moss dots, without the slightest sense of messiness, but emphasizes the texture of the mountain stone, which is the "power can be from simple to complex" that Gong Xianshi realized after his creation.
Most of the painters in the early Qing Dynasty were influenced by Dong Qichang and overemphasized the ancient meaning, resulting in the lack of vitality of the works. Through brushwork, ink color, hills and valleys, and qi rhyme, Gong Xian shows the masculine momentum contained in the famous mountains and rivers. The mountains are steep and rugged, and the smoke clouds form a rigid and soft posture with the great shore mountains.
Gong Xian Kuang Lu Flying Waterfall Partial
Many people do not know that Gong Xian is a genius painter, according to his self-description, he can paint at the age of 13, and his technique tends to be perfected at the age of 18. In his youth, he could imitate the style of the Two Song Dynasties and the Four Yuan Dynasties to create at will, so he had the idea of jumping out of the previous generation. "The source of the heart's poor creation, the change of the mountains and rivers", imitation and tribute are only means of learning, and imitation can never become independent creation.
Gong Xian pursues "independence", and he wants to express his pen and ink characteristics. The so-called ink accumulation method, the so-called "black Gong", is his independence. A thousand words come together into eight words: I am for me, and I am myself. This is Gong Xian, domineering, confident, and different everywhere.
The close-up of "Kuang Lu Fei Waterfall" is thick with ink color, the long view is simple and sparse, and the two completely different styles can be perfectly integrated. The close-up scene is heavily dyed, the long-range focus is dyed, and the pen and ink are rich, which can be called a pale and distant show. He put the flying white in calligraphy into the painting, as if the wrinkle is not a wrinkle, but a combination of the calligraphy and the brushwork. This is his originality, and it is also the reason why the close-up is thick and lush.
Some people divide Gong Xian's creative process into two stages, White Gong and Black Gong. The two faces of "Kuang Lu Fei Waterfall" coexist, and the ink accumulation method is not particularly emphasized, which makes people see the comprehensiveness of his ability. In addition to black and white, there is a particularly charming gray in the painting, which enriches the wonderful colors of nature.
"Kuang Lu Fei Waterfall" is freehand and writes about the heart, the picture is wide open and closed, magnificent and boundless, correcting the rigidity and rigidity in the painting style of the Four Kings, and painting the beauty of the weather.