Song Liang Kai (傳) - Budai monk figure
Ink on paper - length 81.6 cm width 33.0 cm
Liang Kai, born in 1150, his father Liang Duan, grandfather Liang Yangzu, and great-grandfather Liang Zimei were all ministers of the Song Dynasty. A native of Dongping Xucheng (present-day Dongping, Shandong), he was a painter of the Southern Song Dynasty. After the southern crossing, he lived in Qiantang (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang). He was a famous Chinese and Japanese calligrapher and painter, and served as a painter in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was a painter with quite peculiar behavior, good at painting landscapes, Buddhist taoism, ghosts and gods, teaching Fa Jia Shi Gu, and being blue out of blue. Later, because he hated the shackles of the rules of the painting academy, he hung the gold belt over the wall and left his job. Life is indulgent, known as "Liang Madman".
Liang Kai inherits the achievements of his predecessors and applies them flexibly. He deeply observed the spiritual characteristics of the characters he painted, showed the sound and smile of the characters with concise brush and ink, accurately grasped the essential characteristics of things with concise brush and ink, and fully conveyed the feelings of the painter, thus pushing freehand painting to a new height and making people feel refreshed.
The Budai monk was a monk of the Liang Dynasty after five generations, and was passed down as the incarnation of Maitreya Bodhisattva. The monk's bodice is decorated with dry brush and light ink, and the hands, feet, thin rods and cloth bags are outlined in a smooth and rhythmic thick ink line. The eyebrows and eyes are also portrayed appropriately. The cute and cute image of the cloth bag monk is vivid through the painter's casual brush and ink performance.
Text: Network