Fa Ruozhen lived in the 17th century Chinese painter, he was a native of Shandong. Fa Ruozhen entered the high school in the early years of Shunzhi and did not embark on a career path until the Kangxi dynasty. He once served as an envoy to Anhui Province, which is equivalent to the current provincial official. Fa Ruozhen was honest and loved the people in the official arena, and there are historical records of him pouring out his family and property to pay taxes for the disaster victims. However, the world remembers his name because of his achievements in painting and calligraphy. After entering the 21st century, Fa Ruozhen's paintings have been auctioned many times, with transaction prices ranging from millions to tens of millions, and the heat of the market also shows that his paintings are exquisite in skill and exquisite in brushwork. Fa Ruozhen is good at painting landscapes, and occasionally painting flowers and birds, and his landscapes are mostly huge panoramic, and the composition is full of pen and ink. There is no detailed description of the history of Shi Cheng's painting on Fa Ruozhen's paintings, but from the perspective of the style of his works, the Song Renyuan body painting style had a great influence on him. For example, this "Yunfeng Flying Waterfall Map" has a high mountain forest and a smokey cloud waterfall, which is very similar to the style of Liu Songnian of the Song Dynasty.
Fa RuoZhen Cloud Peak Flying Waterfall Diagram
Fa Ruozhen lived in a time when the painting world was ruled by the four kings, and Fa Ruozhen, who grew up on the land of Qilu, was well aware of the influence of culture on art. Fa Ruozhen emphasizes the use of pen in his creation, and the delicacy of the visual effect of "Yunfeng Flying Waterfall Map" stems from the fact that he carefully rubs the direction of the mountain stone with extremely fine brushstrokes, and then renders it layer by layer with light ink, and finally presents a full and deep effect. In order to better integrate with the mountain, Fa Ruozhen used a light pen in the dyeing process, lightly wiped without leaving a pen mark, and painted the ethereal and illusory beauty of the smoke cloud. Fa Ruozhen's kung fu in using the pen benefits from his diligent study of calligraphy, which integrates the vigorous and simple style of writing into the work, so that the picture has a more elegant and majestic beauty. Due to the outstanding technique of Fa Ruozhen, some people in the history of painting have collectively called him and Leng Mei and Gao Fenghan as the "Three Jies of Jiaodong", representing the highest achievements of landscape, figure, flower and bird painting on the land of Qilu in the early Qing Dynasty.
Fa Ruozhen Yunfeng Flying Waterfall Map Partial
Fa Ruozhen also emphasizes lyricism in his creation, and "Yunfeng Flying Waterfall" shows his dusty and detached side. In the early Qing Dynasty, most people painted such huge landscapes, and liked to use brushwork changes to show the sense of space of the picture in their creations. Fa Ruozhen is highly skilled, whether it is far away from the mountains and near the water, the ancient trees and strange stones are depicted with fine brushes, which are moving with charm. When the viewer is moved by the magnificent mountains and full of paper smoke clouds, they will no longer emphasize the sense of space of the picture, but will focus on the overall momentum. From this, I felt the exhilarating pleasure that Fa Ruozhen gave to the work. After the landscape and water of the day and the earth are integrated, the viewer seems to have become a part of nature, and such a strong sense of substitution is unique to Fa Ruozhen's works.
Fa Ruozhen's landscape painting has a quiet and ethereal beauty, and the quiet can be intuitively felt in this "Yunfeng Flying Waterfall Map". The ethereal beauty needs to be carefully experienced, ethereal is not necessarily the picture is sparse, full of dense paper can also draw ethereal beauty. Fa Ruozhen focuses on depicting the liuyun mountain spring in the painting, so that the landscape in the painting seems to be placed in the illusion, and this beautiful scenery that wanders between the real and the unreal gives people the feeling of floating out of the world, thus achieving an ethereal artistic conception. This is also the fa ruo real heavy ink, more emphasis on lyricism to bring the work to the transcendent artistic style.
【Name】Qingfa Ruozhen Layered mountains and mountains
【Era】Qing Dynasty
【Introduction】Vertical shaft, paper, ink, width 130 cm, length 306 cm. Collection of Shandong Provincial Museum.
This seal method is peculiar, full of paper cloud mountains, the upper mountains are increasing, mainly cirrus clouds and ghost faces, and the lines are more delicate. The flowing water curves the bay and harmonizes with the composition of the mountain. The tree is variable in size, with branches or eagle claws. The lower stone pattern is clearer and the layout is sparser. The creekbank is rugged up close. In the distance, temples loomed. The whole picture is a huge frame, with ink as a layer of mountains, quite imposing. Seventy-nine, 1591 AD.
【Name】QingFa Ruozhen Snow Room Reading Map
【Introduction】Vertical shaft, paper, color, length 161 cm, width 87 cm. Collection of Shenyang Museum.
This picture shows the confrontation of snow peaks, the slope of the mountain stream, the number of huts in front of the slope, a person by the window, a child holding a broom, and the pine plum bamboo bushes and dan maple trees on the side of the gangluan house. The two people on the side of the creek travel on the snow, like looking for mei to visit friends. Dye the ground with light ink to set off the snow scene; hook a little luxury, apply dyeing elegance; tree stones are more used for flanking.
【Name】Qingfa Ruozhen Treetop Flying Spring Diagram
【Introduction】Vertical shaft, paper, color, length 135. 7 cm, width 56. 8 cm. Collection of Shanghai Museum.
This picture depicts the scenery of the mountain forest "a night of rain in the mountains, a hundred springs in the branches of the trees". Nearby slopes are covered with mixed trees, high mountain walls are steep, cliffs are steep, white clouds are swirling between mountains, and there are many flying springs in the mountain passes, rushing and betting, as if there is a sound. The stone bones are outlined with a hard pen and dyed many times, which not only fully shows the rugged stone quality, but also depicts the thick and moist breath after the rain of mountain stones.
During Fa Ruozhen's promotion to political envoy in Anhui, Jiangnan, he paid special attention to the national economy and people's livelihood in handling government affairs, and did not disturb the people for trivial matters. According to the custom, the expropriation of land by state officials is uneven, and the envoy must send officials to the prefecture and county to collect land. However, Fa Ruozhen believed that this method of urging would increase trouble for the localities and peasants, so he created three methods of "wind, fire, and thunder" to urge the levy, and never sent officials to supervise the collection. The law was upheld by the cantons and counties and was emulated by the provinces. One year, five counties in Anhui, such as Lingbi and Xuyi, suffered a disaster and failed to harvest, and the people were not happy, so Inspector Zhang Boxing applied to the governor for exemption from the five counties' taxes and silver of tens of thousands of taels. The governor did not dare to allow it, so he handed it over to the envoys to let Farozhen re-investigate. On the basis of his verification, the governor agreed to exempt the five counties from taxes, but was obstructed by the Ministry of Households. Fa Ruozhen showed compassion for the people and poured his own property to pay taxes on behalf of the disaster victims in the five counties.
Artistic achievements
Poetry
Fa Ruozhen has a lot of political reputation. His knowledge is extraordinary, but his poetry and paintings are really famous in the world, and his literary style is valued by people. His poems "not now and not ancient" (Ji Yun), detached and detached, self-lyrical, unique, deeply praised by the poets of the "sexual spirit school", who called his poems "angry because of emotion, vocalized by breath, and painted words because of sound". Fa Ruozhen's articles are also not unusual, "or zhuang or humorous, but songs and weeping", "all kinds of changes, endless changes", by the early Qing Dynasty literary colleagues as "Hai Nei Le Xiang Shu" and literary circles "Taishan Beidou".
a drawing
Fa Ruozhen is also very successful in painting. He is good at landscape painting, and his large-scale works are wanton and magical, and he has a magical "Don't Have Wind Bones." The fan-faced small painting is majestic and clean, eclectic and funny. Occasionally he also paints flowers and birds, with a distinct style.
calligraphy
Fa Ruozhen was good at calligraphy, and he taught wei and Jin "Zhong Wang" Shen Yun, not following the Yuan and Ming families, and the lines, seals, grasses, and kais were all in line and showed a unique style. The line book "has the tendency of the crane to stop the crane", and the cursive book "has a huge pen and a great momentum".
Fa Ruozhen was one of the few literati in Shandong in the Qing Dynasty who had achieved both poetry and painting. Under his influence, his descendants inherited their family studies and made achievements, and produced a number of influential cultural people. The Fa Ruozhen family is worthy of attention in Jiaozhou and Shandong.