Fine flowers and birds are good at characters: the works of the great master ren Bonian of the Haipai are appreciated

Xu Beihong paints "Portrait of Ren Bonian Oil Painting"

Ren Bonian was born in the nineteenth year of Qing Daoguang (1840) and died in the twenty-second year of Guangxu (1896). He is the leader and outstanding representative of the Shanghai School of Painting, and is jointly known as the "Four Ren of Shanghai" with Ren Xiong, Ren Fu and Ren Pre, and the "Four Great People of Shanghai" together with Pu Hua, Xu Gu and Wu Changshuo.

Ren Bonian's paintings have a wide range of subjects, such as figures, portraits, landscapes, flowers, birds and birds. With pen and ink, rich and changeable, new and ingenious composition, prominent theme, dense in sparseness, virtual reality, thick and light, poetic, fresh and smooth is his unique style.

Ren Bonian's main achievement is in the aspects of figure painting and flower and bird painting, often a few strokes, you can show the entire demeanor of the characters, there is not much ink and the artistic conception is far-reaching. Its lines are concise and calm, powerful and elegant. He often painted Zhong Kui, and his Zhong Kui was open-minded, not afraid of ghosts, and did not believe in evil.

Ren BoNian flower and bird painting

Ren Bonian's flower and bird paintings are particularly interesting and creative, the pen and ink tend to be simple and indulgent, the color is clear and elegant, and the style is formed with part-time work, bright and warm. This kind of painting method has opened up a new world of flower and bird painting and has had a great impact on the modern and modern painting circles.

Ren Yi's flower and bird paintings incorporate the brushwork of Chen Chun, Xu Wei, Bada Shanren, Yun Nantian and others, with a poetic lyrical interest.

He was able to subtly express the most mundane scenes in the most effective way, and he felt poetic. He can accurately capture the image, the objects are also sketched naturally and beautifully, the movement, height, concealment, and density of the picture body composition, the boneless rhyme of the color and the old spicy brushwork, are all perfectly expressed.

Ren Bonian figure painting

Ren Bonian was proficient in portraiture and was an outstanding portrait painter. In the early years of figure painting, he was taught by Xiao Yuncong, Chen Hongshou, Fei Xiaolou, Ren Xiong and others. The meticulous female painting is close to Fei Xiaolou, the exaggerated and strange figure painting method Chen Hongshou, the decorative street painting learned from Ren Dong, and after practicing pencil sketching, it became more easy, and in his later years he absorbed Hua (Yan) brushstrokes, becoming more simple and flexible.

Ren Bonian's figure paintings are rooted in folk art, and elegant and popular appreciation is the strength of Ren Bonian's works. He attaches great importance to inheriting traditions, integrates the strengths of various families, absorbs the sketches and coloring methods of Western painting, and forms his own unique painting style of rich and colorful, novel and vivid.

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