There is a creative category in traditional painting called "boundary painting", when painting, use a ruler to draw lines to ensure that the lines are straight. Boundary painting mainly depicts various buildings, so it is also called "boundary painting platform". It is said that in the Jin Dynasty, there were boundary paintings. Zhan Ziqian of the Sui Dynasty was a master of boundary painting, and Li Sixun of the Tang Dynasty once painted jiucheng palaces with boundary painting techniques. Unfortunately, these paintings have been lost, and the boundary paintings that modern people can see are all works after the Song Dynasty.
It is very difficult to create a painting in the world, and it is necessary to observe life, sketch on the spot, and ponder the changes of yin and yang. Therefore, many literati painters feel that this painting method is too demanding on techniques and lacks literati feelings. Over time, boundary painting has become a specialty of folk painters. Since Guo Zhongshu in the Song Dynasty and Wang Zhenpeng in the Yuan Dynasty, few masters of boundary painting have been born.
Pu Xin Qi Xiao Temple into the cold cloud local
In the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Jiang and Yuan Yao's uncles and nephews were enshrined in the painting academy and created a number of gorgeous and splendid boundary paintings. The beauty of their palace garden is like a fairyland, which makes people marvel. The modern famous artist Pu Xinhu took the ancient as his teacher, so he was born noble, could see the palace collections, and reached the realm of the master's techniques of the past generations. This painting "Xiao Temple into the Cold Clouds" is his work, and it makes people linger in it before standing in front of the painting, and they can't bear to pace.
"Xiao Temple" is the meaning of the ancient temple, the emperor of the Six Dynasties period Xiao Daocheng believed in Buddhism, and the Jiangnan area is full of Buddhist temples, so it has the name of Xiao Temple. The temple in the painting is built on a mountain and built with water. In order to express the panorama of the ancient temple, there is no concept of perspective in the traditional painting method, in order to express the spatial change, the angle of upward view is often used, and the panorama is expressed through the technique of step-by-step elevation.
Enjoying "Xiao Temple into the Cold Clouds" can learn a lot of knowledge of ancient architecture, such as building by the water, without walls, called "Xie". The main hall in the middle can be called "hall", and the houses on both sides can be called "庑". The building is divided into front and back, front hospitality, and rear residence. These details were painted into the work by Pu Xinyi, which made people dizzying.
Of course, as a work of art, there must also be a place higher than life. The ancient temple in Pu Xinhu's pen is as magnificent as a palace, with cornices, high-rise pavilions, and strange stone ancient trees. Look at the exquisite brushwork, feel the spectacular scenery, and immediately feel refreshed.
Good works cannot be monotonous, there are fine pens, there must be thick pens, there are work pens, there must be freehand. Pu Xinhu understood this truth, he used thick brush to draw mountains and stones, and used intentional pens to write mountains and rivers, all in order to enrich the content of the picture. Meticulous and magnificent, both, is "Xiao Temple into the Cold Cloud".
The picture is neat and meticulous, and it is easy to produce a sense of piling, and Pu Xinqi adopts the technique of contrast, making loose right and dense, and using the corners to compose the picture. Continue to strengthen the contrast in color, so that the work is full of mood.
Some people say that boundary painting is like a letter written by Ouyang Inquiry, which requires meticulousness. In fact, only meticulous is not enough, painting circles need to have superb techniques, the ability to observe life, and the overall situation in creation. After watching "Xiao Temple into the Cold Clouds" and understanding the history of boundary painting, I knew that it was very difficult to paint well.