Southern Song Dynasty Xia Gui Meixia Reading Figure Silk Color 19.5×22cm
Xia Gui (born and died unknown), courtesy name Yuyu, was a native of Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang) and a master of painting in the Southern Song Dynasty. One of the "Four Houses of the Southern Song Dynasty", he painted figures in his early years and was later known for his landscapes. During the reign of Emperor Ningzong, he served as a court of painting and received the honor of a golden belt from the emperor.
Song Xia Gui Ze Pan Wind Map
His landscape painter Fa Li Tang drew on the strengths of Fan Kuan, Mi Fu and Mi Youren to form his own personal style. Although he belongs to the same school of ink and ink as Ma Yuan, he likes to use a bald pen, and his pen is heavier, so he is more old and majestic. The use of ink is good at adjusting the moisture and achieving a more moist effect. In the method of mountain stones, it is often used to sweep and dye with light ink with a water pen, and then use thick ink to create a special effect of ink melting, which is called pulling nails in the mud.
Song Xia Gui Mountainside Tower View Page
Xia Gui's painting composition often takes half of the side, the focus is concentrated, the space is wide, the close-up is prominent, the long-range view is light, the expanse is beautiful, and it is unique, known as the "summer half". He advocated "detaching from the phase and understanding nature". Tend to be simple and far-reaching, and the appearance of the relics is taken from God.
Snow Hall Guest Diagram Silk Coloring | 28.2×29.2cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Xia Gui paints snow scenes to learn Fan Kuan. Later generations called him "Ma Xia" together with Ma Yuan, and Li Tang and Liu Songnian called him "Four Families of the Southern Song Dynasty". His works include "Qingyuan Map of Xishan Mountain", "Diagram of Willow Boats in West Lake", "Map of Xuetang Guest Talk" and so on.
Xishan Qingyuan diagram on paper Ink pen | 46.5×889.1cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
"Qingyuan Map of Xishan Mountain" is Xia Gui's masterpiece, which depicts the scenery on both sides of the Jiangnan River on a sunny day: peaks, cliffs, maolin, pavilions, long bridges, cottages, mao pavilions, fishing boats, and distant sails. Mountain stone with bald pen center outline, dignified and smooth, homeopathic with the flank of the large, small axe split, intermittent scraping iron, nail head rat tail wrinkle, etc., and then add a little, although the pen is simple but changeable. Xia Gui is very good at using the change of ink color, in addition to the usual layer of adding wrinkles and dyeing in addition to the "ink accumulation method", often adding "dipping ink method", that is, first dipping light ink, and then dipping thick ink in the tip of the pen, drawing in turn, the ink color from thick to light, from wet to dry, changeable. Coupled with the "ink breaking method", breaking water with ink, breaking ink with water, breaking light with thickness, and breaking thick with light, so that the ink color is moist, flexible and fresh. The empty composition, the simple use of pens, and the light ink color create a clean and distant lake and mountain color with great beauty.
West Lake willow boat diagram silk color | 107.2×59.3cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
West Lake willow boat map partial
Layer Cliff Hidden Temple Diagram Silk Color | 187.7×152.2cm Collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Torrent diagram Silk Ink pen | Collection of 137×91.5cm Friar Museum of Art
Landscape drawing Silk Ink pen | 47.5×32.5cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Willow Creek Visiting Friends Picture (Biography) Silk Color | 45.5×29.1cm Collection of the British Museum
Rain after smoke tree figure silk ink pen | 144.5×101cm Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Part of Xia Gui's "Rain And Smoke Tree Map"
Shan Qinglan figure Silk ink pen | 24.8×21.3cm Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Twelve Landscapes (Biography) Silk Ink Pen | 28×230 .8cm Collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Pine Cliff Guest Diagram Silk Ink Pen | 27×39cm, National Palace Museum, Taipei
Landscape drawing Silk Ink pen | 25.8×34.3cm Collection of the Tokyo National Museum
Twilight Return to Fishing (Transmission) Silk Ink Pen | 24.2×32.5cm Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Willow shade cattle drawing Silk ink pen | 24.2×24.7cm Collection of the Friar Museum of Art
Snow Creek Grazing Diagram Silk Ink Pen | 25.7×26.3cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Lakeside retreat figure Silk Ink pen | 25.2×26.1cm Collection of Osaka Municipal Museum of Art
Waterfall view on silk ink pen | 24.7×25.7cm Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Mountain Villa Twilight Snow Diagram Silk Ink Pen | 24.4×26cm Private Collection
Pine Creek Pan Moon Diagram Silk Ink Pen | 24.7×25.2cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Part of Xia Gui's "Pine Creek Pan Moon Map"
Haruka Smoke Mist Diagram Silk Ink Pen | 23.5×24.2cm Collection of the Palace Museum
Fishing village fishing map silk ink pen | 23×22.3cm Collection of Shanghai Museum
Song Xia Gui Yan Xiu Lin Ju Map Page
Xishan Qingyuan map full volume