Introduction: Wen Peng, as the eldest son of Wen Zhengming, was deeply influenced by family learning, inherited the mantle of his father, and showed outstanding talent in poetry, books, paintings, printing, etc., and his outstanding achievements in art have influenced future generations.
As an important artist in the Wumen area in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Wen Peng's literati feelings are self-evident. On the basis of inheriting his father Wen Zhengming, he also extensively drew on the creative experience of his predecessors, and became an important artistic master of the Wumen generation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
01 The mainstay of the Wumen school
Wen Peng, Zi Shou Cheng, No. 3 Bridge, the eldest son of Wen Zhengming. With the blessing of Zhusheng Jiucigong, he was taught Xiushui and promoted to The Doctor of Nanjing Guozijian, known as Wen Guobo and Dr. Wen.
After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the southern Jiangsu region gradually replaced the capital as the center of calligraphy and painting art activities. Wumen is another name for the metropolis of Southern Jiangsu, Suzhou, because of its fertile cultural soil, relative freedom in politics, and economic prosperity, which has promoted the prosperity and development of art. It was at this time that the Wumen School of Painting came into being.
The Wumen school of painting arose in Shen Zhou and developed in Wen Zhengming, with the four most prominent names of Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, and Qiu Ying, who later generations called them the "Four Great Masters of Wumen", also known as the "Ming Four Families". Among them, Wen Zhengming, with his superb artistic talent and unique personality charm, established his lofty position among the literati of the Ming Dynasty, and became the proud son of the cultural circle at that time and even a generation of people who influenced future generations.
Wen Zhengming has many students, his followers are countless, and there are many celebrities among the descendants of the family, and his Chinese Peng is a prominent representative among the descendants of Wen Zhengming.
As the eldest son of Wen Zhengming, Wen Peng was deeply influenced and influenced by his father, and adhered to the family study well. On the basis of learning and inheriting his predecessors, with a large-scale artistic mentality and an independent innovative spirit, he finally made many impressive achievements in poetry, calligraphy, painting, and printing, and passed on to future generations, becoming a pivotal artist in the Wumen area of the Ming Dynasty.
02The bamboo stone and orchid painted are heirloom masterpieces
Wen Peng learned calligraphy and painting from his father. Bamboo stone orchid is his very good at and like the creative content, he painted ink bamboo, strong penmanship, representative works include "Bamboo Orchid Diagram" and "Orchid Diagram".
Carefully admire Wen Peng's "Orchid Drawing", in which orchids, thorns and weeds coexist with each other, and the painter uses ink to enrich the effect of black, white and gray. The use of thirst pen depicts the curling of thorns, the writing of light ink shows the stretching posture of orchid leaves, and the orchids that pitch and open and close, vivid and lively, are embellished with a vivid state, and then dipped in ink to depict the full of charm of weeds, which echo with the title and are harmonious and natural.
03 Landscape painting inherits his father's painting style and shows the lush wind
Wen Peng's painting style explores the style of the Yuan people, integrates it into his own creation, absorbs Wu Zhen's techniques and style paradigms, and inherits the physical characteristics of Wu Zhen's lush appearance, as Zhu Mouyuan said in the "Painting History Society": "Peng paints Cangyu, Jia painting is sparse." ”
Pine trees have always been admired and admired by literati, and its image of a tenacious and unrestful hermit has been integrated into artistic creation. Painting pine trees can show the painter's awe-inspiring, noble and simple character, so the image of gu song often appears in Wen Peng's paintings.
For example, his landscape painting "Songshan Gaoshitu" completely inherits the treatment method of the predecessor Wu Zhen on the selection and arrangement of trees. In the close-up, there will be no miscellaneous trees, but ancient trees with leafy branches, green and upright roots will be selected as the image of the picture, so as to praise its tenacious and tenacious quality and spirit. In the technique of painting stones, the ink color is light ink, and when painting the mountain, the painting method of thick ink and then dipping it in water will be used to dye moss. The whole painting is vigorous and the color is thick and intense, which is really a good follower of Wu Zhen's painting style.
epilogue:
Without establishing a law, and not giving up a law, Wen Peng's inheritance of tradition, the intention of the teacher instead of the traces of the teacher, borrowed the past to open up the present, while chasing the heart of the ancients, but also not forgetting the self, daring to create themselves, and daring to innovate.
He was not only proficient in calligraphy and painting, but also accomplished in poetry. His poems are mostly five-word poems and seven-word poems, and calligraphy and verses are closely linked, and the scenes are blended. For example, his inscription poem on the painting "Ink Bamboo Diagram" reads, "I love Jiangnan Xiaomantian, and the flowers are exhausted." The north window is self-exhibition South China reading, sometimes there is a cool breeze to the pillow", the language is fresh and free, natural and simple, and the feelings are delicate and sincere.
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