This is a frame album of the skull painting, the original work has no name, according to the inscription poem in the painting, named "CreekSide Barrier Stone". There is a strange stone standing on the side of the stream, and along the mountain stone there is a path leading to the creek ferry. The beard is painted with a dry brush, full of a sense of bodybuilding. The mountain stone is densely covered with moss dots, which express the texture of the mountain stone through dense and thick contrast. Even though the scale of the work is not large, the momentum is very strong. This is the creative ability of master painters, small in the big, painting paper contains a magnificent world.
Maybe everyone will have a question, is the hair remnant painting a spring scene or an autumn scene? If you want to understand this question, you can understand why he paints like this, dense and not chaotic, complicated and simple. Finding the answer from the poems in the painting is the simplest, and The Beard said, "All the ages are not springy." "Through the characteristics of his technique, he embodies the beauty of desolation, depth and tranquility. Desolation represents the interest of pen and ink, depth represents compositional characteristics, and silence represents infinite reverie space. He painted autumn landscapes and expressed his artistic claims.
He lived in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and became a monk at the age of 20. After the death of Ming, he joined the anti-Qing rebel army and fought bravely. Unfortunately, the anti-Qing resistance failed and he was forced to live in seclusion in the mountains to avoid disasters. The identity of a monk is more like a protective color, and his character cannot be desireless and desireless. From his paintings, you can see that with a strong pen, how can he be a person who only knows how to endure!
Mountain life has become the source of creation of the landscape of the skull, and the natural landscape is hidden in the chest to paint the soul of the mountain. He did not set the mountain as the center of gravity of the picture, but chose the ferry port as the center of gravity, full of literati interest. The grass pavilion of the ferry bridge will not block the line of sight, so as to achieve the effect of space transition. In this way, the picture effect is full, in order to show the charm of small in the big.
Remnant Creek Barrier Stone Partial
"CreekSide Rock" looks at the details and has a sense of chaos; looking at the whole, I find that the composition and management rules are strict. This contrast gives the picture a unique beauty. Chaos can be understood as repetition in pen and ink; not chaos, that is because there is a contrast in repetition. Make good use of contrasting techniques, orderly in chaos, the master is the master, and always maintain a smooth and free hand in the creation.
Some scholars believe that the remnants of the skull are integrated into the painting with Zen meaning, forming a special sense of beauty. There is also a certain truth to this view, his heart is not chaotic, and his pen and ink are not chaotic. Why do some people feel confused when they look at it, because they don't understand the crippled mind. This understanding of the disabled works, although it is suspected of idealism, can guide everyone to discover the true meaning of the painting.
Looking at the mottled mountain stones, I deliberately sharpened it with the retouching software, and I even had a sense of texture similar to oil painting. Isn't it amazing that this adjustment allows everyone to understand the pen and ink characteristics of the skull. Painting mountain stones, to show texture, sense of volume, as for how to express, after seeing the work of the crippled, you will understand.
The crippled work needed to be copied to discover how difficult it was for him to draw this effect with a bald brush. Some people use Zhengrong to describe the mountain stones in the pen of the beard, and some people use vicissitudes to describe, this feeling of being weathered by wind and frost is drawn with a brush, which is simply a stroke of God.
There is a soul in landscape painting, there is vitality in landscape painting, these seemingly mysterious views, look at the work of the crippled, you know that this is true. "CreekSide Barrier Stone", fortunately, the beard residue let everyone understand the aesthetic characteristics of tradition and freshness.