As a pioneer of the Wumen School of painting and a teacher of Qiu Ying and Tang Yin, Zhou Chen's achievements in landscape and figure painting were very superb.
Zhou Chen landscape master Inherited Chen Xian. "Ming Painting Record" contains: Chen Xianshan painted color landscapes and figures, first learned Chen Gongfu, and then became an old habit and became a family of his own. If you imitate the ancients, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. Siam passed on its karma to zhou chen, and the subject passed on its karma to qiu Ying.
Zhou Chen painstakingly copied the works of the Five Dynasties and the two Song Dynasties landscape painters, such as Li Cheng, Guo Xi, Li Tang, Ma Yuan and other painters, which were mainly taken from the Li Tang faction. The paintings are solid, rigorous in their rules, and skilled in penmanship. And Dai Jin side by side, each other's strengths.
The literati painting tradition that arose after the Yuan Dynasty also had a certain influence on Zhou Chen, who was known as the "courtyard school" painter of the non-courtyard school, and his paintings reflected the characteristics of the integration of courtyard painting and literati painting.
In Zhou Chen's works, there are both panoramic and complex compositions such as "Spring Mountain Riding Map" and "Mountain Pavilion NaLiang Chart Axis", as well as corner compositions like "Ningqi Rice Cow Diagram" Nanyang.
Spring Mountain Ride Map Partial
The composition of this work is complex and not blind, steady and thoughtful, the xiongzhong yuxiu, the dense is sparse; the color is clear and beautiful, and the brushwork is strong and bright.
Zhou Chen often used a square folding and strong axe to split the mountain stones, hooking the fine and hard, creating a magnificent scenery.
Carry the piano to see the mountain map partially
Zhou Chen's paintings of treework are delicate and elegant, which fully reflects his admiration for courtyard body paintings. For example, the meticulous portrayal of willow trees in "Idle Children Catching Willow Flower Sentence Intentions" and "Water Pavilion Qingxing Diagram"; the neat banana leaves in "Mountain Pavilion NaLiang Map"; the fine and intricate branches in "Mao Shi Tu Vertical Axis", etc., and so on.
Idly watching children catch willow flower sentence intention partial
Mao Shi tu vertical axis local
Zhou Chen's figure paintings are also very outstanding, ancient and strange, dense and scattered, and have their own extremes. In "Fishing Music Map", the author delicately captures the various actions of fishermen, such as fishing, casting nets, fishing, shrimp fishing, weaving nets, etc., portraying the fishermen's frank and natural demeanor, showing their simple temperament and life attitude of finding fun in their livelihood.
Fishing Music Diagram Partial