A flat boat, the old man leans over to fish, does not see the scenery, and there is only a boat without water, such a painting really does not know what to say. This is also not to blame people for being picky. Even for us laymen, there is really nothing to see at a glance at this painting.
What I don't know is that this is the landscape painting "Cold River Solitary Fishing Map" by Ma Yuan, an outstanding great painter of the Song Dynasty, which can be regarded as a very promising. Since it is everyone's work, it must have something unique. More than a thousand years later, people enlarged this "Cold River Solo Fishing Map" ten times and carefully pondered it, and they couldn't help but be surprised, and they couldn't help but praise this horse far and sure enough. A few strokes add a few waves, and suddenly the artistic conception is prominent, intriguing, and it is really a stroke of God.
In the history of Chinese painting, Ma Yuan is an iconic figure, and he is known as the four masters of the Southern Song Dynasty along with Li Tang, Liu Songnian and Xia Gui. In particular, his landscape painting is a family of its own, with a more simple and elegant style, and he is a unique and innovative great painter in the history of Chinese painting.
Ma Yuan comes from a family of painters, and his family has been famous painters for five generations. That is to say, thanks to the family learning origin, Ma Yuan has been influenced by family art since childhood, Ma Yuan inherited family learning and Li Tang painting methods, and gradually formed his own unique style.
Ma Yuan's "Cold River Solo Fishing Map", the picture is simple, a flat boat floating on the river with the wind. Then there are the fishermen who sit alone on the boat. There is neither a vista nor a close-up realism, only the serene demeanor of the fisherman and the slightly upturned bow of the boat.
A thousand mountains and birds flew away, and thousands of people disappeared. Lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow. This is the scene depicted by the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Zongyuan in "Jiang Xue", and it is obvious that the creation of "Cold River Independent Fishing Map" is closely related to this poem, and it is more likely that Ma Yuan's "Cold River Independent Fishing Map" is based on Liu Zongyuan's "Jiang Xue". In fact, poetic painting, painting and scenery, a poem and a painting complement each other, which interprets the transcendent artistic conception that poetry is an invisible painting and painting is a tangible poem.
The skill of painting is all about details, when people find that the bow of this leaf flat boat is slightly cocked, they find that the fisherman is busy fishing in the stern of the boat, this kind of wordless detail control, only Ma Yuan's magic pen can control. Of course, the painter did not forget about the water waves, but only a few understatements, so that people had to enlarge the painting more than ten times to slightly show the existence of water waves.
Poetry is an invisible painting, painting is a tangible poem, in fact, it is very difficult to do this. It is not difficult to imagine that Liu Zongyuan's Jiang Xue will be interpreted by painting, but the only one that can really match "Jiang Xue" is Ma Yuan's "Cold River Solo Fishing Map".
It is worth mentioning that white space is an artistic expression, or a method of expression. Painting needs to leave white space, and this is precisely to consider the master's ability to control the whole, almost all art masters are often white space masters, in the square inch to show the width of the heaven and earth, it is really not easy.
For example, Ma Yuan's "Cold River Solo Fishing Map", in a painting, a small boat, a fisherman, very simple. Even if there is not a trace of water in the whole painting, it makes people feel that there is a vast smoke wave, which can be embarrassed by the blue waves.
In the painting "Fishing in the Cold River", 90% of the place is empty, and the fisherman and his boat appear so lonely, and this is precisely the meaning of the painter. Treating people with generosity and leaving room for people's imagination is the artistic charm of leaving white space with invincible white space.
It not only creates a high aesthetic value, but also brings out the "loneliness" and "independence" of the painter. Lonely boat is an expression of loneliness, and fishing alone is to portray the true connotation of this "independence" character. Lonely but not alone, alone but not alone. This is the real poetry.
In fact, at first glance, there are two aspects to the perverse nature of this painting, one is that there is a boat without water seems to be unreasonable, in fact, this is a misreading. That is to say, this is Ma Yuan's divine brush, there is a boat without water is actually the appearance, the painter's thin ripples are actually a photo, but too light, so that it must be magnified more than ten times to see.
The second point is that the proportions are not reasonable, and the only character in this painting, although set in the middle of the picture, is too small and does not match the whole picture. Of course, this understanding is the view of ordinary people, but in fact, under the grand firmament, in the choppy rivers, people are too small and insignificant. Ma Yuan's brush design naturally highlights the greatness of nature and interprets the world view and value theory that man is given by all things.
In terms of artistic expression, virtual reality is a vague and clear treatment. If the relationship between "virtual and real" in the sketch is properly handled, it will be very layered, so that the picture can have order, three-dimensional sense and sense of space. "Cold River Solo Fishing Map" has a unique creativity in this regard.
In a certain sense, white space is a combination of virtual and real. In the end, the smoke waves on the picture are still people's imagination, and the endless river is actually a blank, and people can only connect the picture through their own brain supplements.
The fisherman and his boat were handled very small, even negligible, but this set off the chill and bleakness on the river, which in turn set off a more concentrated portrayal of the fisherman's concentration and distraction. Standing in the distance of the sky and looking at the fisherman and his boat, it seems very lonely, this is white space and fiction. On the other hand, from the perspective of a small boat, a picture of the sky comes to life, which is very shocking and infectious.
The virtual and the real come together, and everywhere without painting becomes a wonderful place. In fact, Ma Yuan was not lazy, using a few strokes of light ink to outline the water lines, and there were blanks all around. Despite this, the picture does not seem empty, but it makes people feel that the river is vast, and even a little cold. Not only that, people can get an indescribable feeling and artistic conception in the blank.
The silence and emptiness and indifference and depression are the true feelings of "Cold River Solo Fishing Map", which makes people feel in addition to shocking, this artistic conception makes people linger and suspenseful. We often say that painting with the heart is actually to emphasize the collision of the mind and reality, so that the bright picture and strange colors can be revealed. This kind of sketching with a few strokes may seem like an understatement, but it is profound.
There is no doubt that "Cold River Solo Fishing Map" is a masterpiece and the pinnacle of Ma Yuan's highlight moment. A leaf of rafting, fishing for the old man, that's all, such simplicity makes Ma Yuan's interpretation of the grandeur and thickness is really everyone's hand. A painting has made people think about it for more than a thousand years, and only Ma Yuan can reach such a state of charm.