Song paintings, exquisite!

Song Huizong's "Sketching Rare Birds"

Although Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, he was a rare artistic genius in ancient times. He can read and draw, and at the age of 23, he created a tall and beautiful "thin gold body". In painting, he is even more talented, especially good at painting flowers and birds. Emperor Huizong's obsession and promotion of painting made Song painting reach the peak of the history of chinese and even world painting art.

Song Huizong's "Ruihe Tu"

Song Huizong's "Five-Colored Parrot Diagram"

When Liu Yiqian talked about "Sketching Rare Birds", he recalled an old expert of the Palace Museum saying to himself that after the Ullens couple photographed "Sketching Rare Birds", they once showed off to him that Song Huizong was in their hands, and he was very unhappy in his heart.

It is said that during the auction in 2002, the Shanghai Museum intended to bid, but considering that the painting flowed out of the Forbidden City in Beijing and was of greater cultural significance to the Palace Museum, Shangbo eventually gave up bidding to make way for the Forbidden City, which failed to do so due to limited funds.

Song Huizong's "Sketching Rare Birds"

Shortly after Liu Yiqian photographed "Sketching Rare Birds", Hong Kong collector Mr. Huang Junyi collected his "Sketching Rare Birds" volume for many years, and the original long-tailed armor (long-tailed armor is a famous Japanese calligrapher and painter) and Zhang Daqian's inscription was given to Liu Yiqian, and finally the painting was completed.

Today, "Sketching Rare Birds" is quietly lying in the exhibition hall of the West Bund Pavilion of the Shanghai Long Museum, showing it to the public.

Song Huizong's "Sketching Rare Birds"

Song Dynasty paintings and calligraphy are the measure of the world's top collectors, paintings are less than books, and all the big auction companies are proud to auction Song Dynasty paintings and calligraphy. There is no doubt that Song Dynasty calligraphy and painting is the highest peak in the history of Danqing in China.

Song painting is not the proud splendor of the Tang Dynasty's "full of golden armor", but an ethereal, subtle, humble and sincere attitude. The Song painters, who have always attached great importance to the lattice, treated every dead wood, every leaf, every fisherman, and every strand of detention with a realistic belief in skill. They are romantic in distress, praise in regret, and gently tap the value of life in the long rivers and streams, small scenery of mountains and rivers, and characters, flowers and birds.

Ma Lin's "Plum Bamboo Diagram"

Lin Chun 《Loquat Mountain Bird Diagram》

Anon. "Chibi Atlas Album"

Song painting · humble

A flower, a world, a bird and a paradise, the extremely subtle Song painters discovered the vitality of the entire universe from all things. Especially under the guidance of Cheng Hao and Zhu Xi's thought on objects and objects, Song Dynasty painters had to "check" whatever they painted, and they poured out their sincere reverence and humility into the objects they painted.

"Pear Blossom Parrot Diagram"

Song Huizong's "Peach Dove Diagram"

Guo Ruoxuan, a connoisseur of calligraphy and painting in the Song Dynasty, said in "Picture Seeing and Hearing Zhi And Making Models": Painting flowers and grasses has four seasons of scenery, yin and yang to the back, bamboo shoots are old and tender, the buds are first, and the vegetables and wild grasses in the gardens are caught, and the salty has unearthed body. Those who paint feathers must know the names of the birds.

Cui Bai's "Shazhu Chicks"

Because of this, guo ruohu of the Northern Song Dynasty made a bird every time, from the mouth to the tail and the foot. Yi Yuanji is like a hundred miles of the Wanshou Mountain, with the genus of apes and roe deer, and captures the forest stone scenery. Song Huizong painted a peacock to rise, and must first lift it to the left. Fu Wen used to draw quails and magpies to divide four feathers. In order to paint bamboo well, Su Shi's good friend Wen Youke drilled in the bamboo forest all year round, whether it was spring, summer, autumn or winter, or wind and rain.

Part of the text with "Ink Bamboo"

At one point, a fierce wind blew in the sky. Then, lightning flashed and thundered, and seeing that a rainstorm was coming, people rushed home. But at this moment, Wen Youke, who was sitting at home, hurriedly grabbed a straw hat, buckled it on his head, and ran towards the bamboo forest, just to see the appearance of bamboo in the wind and rain.

I saw the bamboo under the wind and rain, bending down and nodding, shaking around. Wen You can carefully remember the posture of the bamboo being hit by the wind and rain. After that, when you draw bamboo, you don't have to draw a sketch at all, one stroke is one stroke. The allusion to the idiom "confident" comes from this.

Song Wentong, "Ink Bamboo"

Nowadays, when you appreciate Song paintings, it is not difficult to find that no matter the size of them, they have all gone all out. Because that was all created by the Song Dynasty painters with their whole mind and whole hand and eye.

And whether it is a long scroll or a sketch, it is done with a whole-world mentality. The humility and self-satisfaction of contemplating all things, like the benevolent heart of the four hours of rejoicing, flow like a trickle on the picture.

Song Ruzhi 'Chick Finch Diagram》

Sun Long's "Rabbit Diagram"

Ma Lin", "Pomegranate Bird"

Song painting · Sincere

Song Dynasty painters were the first group in the world to paint with personality. They painted in search of the pleasure of the heart, to express the idea of life in the universe. The subtlety of the objects and the exquisite craftsmanship of the expression make their lives step by step deep and great in the reverent painting.

Guo Xi's "Tree Color Flat Far Map"

Qi Preface "Jiangshan Grazing Map"

"Suddenly, a ray of light came over, and after the group of traveling figures, sandwiched between the trees, Fan Kuan's two-character name appeared impressively." In his memoirs, art historian Li Lincan turned this exciting moment into eternity.

Part of Fan Kuan's "Journey to the Creek and Mountains"

Fan Kuan was a Painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, also known as Zhongzheng, with a neutral character. It is said that Fan Kuan is good at wine and is not informal. In the early years, he studied under Jing Hao and Li Cheng, and later realized that with his teachers, he was not as good as the teachers, so he moved to the Taihua Mountains in Zhongnan, sat in danger all day long, observed sketching for a long time, and the momentum of the mountains and rivers was exhausted, and he eventually became a generation of painting masters.

It was he who hid his name in the woods of the giant axis painting "Journey to the Creek and Mountains". Fan Kuan's hidden pen has touched many people in future generations.

Portrait of Fan Kuan

Liu Guosong was a pioneer of taiwan's early modern art, and once he pondered Fan Kuan's "Journey to Xishan Mountain" and was so grateful that he shed tears! In fact, Liu Guosong was only touched by Fan Kuan's sincerity.

Try to see the "Journey of the Stream and Mountain" thousands of strokes, tireless "rain point method", if you do not paint the solemnity and greatness of the mountain from the heart to the stone nodding and vowing not to give up, who can not be moved by Fan Huayuan's sincerity?

Fan Kuan's "Journey to the Creek and Mountains"

When we look at the "Journey to the Creek and Mountain" from a distance, we will be shocked by the majesty of the mountain. If you look closely, you will be attracted by the trees, waterfalls, spring stones, and human mules that are constantly found. It turned out that in the majestic mountains and rivers of the universe, there was such a faint and exuberant life.

Continuing into the painting, you will see the texture of the rocks, the texture of the soil, and the tendons of the trees. At this point, we are amazed by the subtle composition of the material world, and we can't help but want to touch it with our hands. But in the end, we were deeply moved by Fan Kuanqian's sincere writing.

Part of Fan Kuan's "Journey to the Creek and Mountains"

Art historian Gao Juhan praised Song painting in "The History of Chinese Painting": The artist seems to have been exposed to nature for the first time in his life, responding to nature with a sense of amazement and awe. The freshness of their horizons and the depth of their understanding are unparalleled in future generations.

Li Tang's "Wind Map of Ten Thousand Pines"

Song paintings are Wang Ximeng's Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, Zhang Zeduan's Qingming River; Li Cheng, Fan Kuan, Guo Xi, Li Tang, and Liu Songnian's rich mountains and rivers; Cui Bai, Zhao Tuo, Lin Chun, Ma Lin, and Li Di's birds and sparrows; Su Hanchen, Li Song, Qi Xu, and Luo Window's human fireworks; Ma Yuan, Xia Gui's Xishan Qingyuan.

Song painting is a painting of nature, a painting of the human world, and a painting of the soul that interrogates the value of life in the universe. It is like a great aesthetic enlightener, constantly enlightening our lives and souls.

Li Di", "White Hibiscus"

Su Hanchen's "Winter Drama Baby Picture"

Mao Song "Ape Diagram"

Source: Chinese Art