Mr. Mei Lanfang is an outstanding Actor of Jingkundanxing in modern times, the first of the "Four Famous Dans", the founder of "Meipai" art, and also an internationally renowned performing arts master, whose performance has been pushed as one of the "three major performance systems in the world".
In the eyes of Westerners, "Mei Lanfang" is synonymous with Peking Opera.
However, few people know that Mei Lanfang is not only good at Peking Opera performance, but also good at painting and calligraphy.
Mr. Mei Lanfang's grandfather Mei Qiaoling and father Mei Zhufen are very fond of calligraphy, so the family has collected many Ming and Qing Dynasty calligraphy and paintings, which are influenced by the family atmosphere, and Mr. Mei also has a special love for painting and calligraphy.
In Mr. Mei's view, drama is closely related to other arts and has the same intrinsic characteristics, and he himself can always find inspiration in painting and integrate into Peking Opera performances.
In terms of painting, Mr. Mei has studied with painting masters such as Qi Baishi, Chen Banding, yao Mangfu and so on, and his works are beautiful and elegant, both shape and god, and have profound artistic accomplishment. His flowers and birds are delicate and vivid, and his eyebrows are graceful and lifelike.
His calligraphy, on the other hand, is mainly based on xingkai, and The style of Xiaokai is derived from the "Treatise on Le Yi", "Huang TingJing", "Thirteen Lines" and other two kings Xiaokai, accompanied by Tang dynasty writing.
Mr. Mei's calligraphy, like his classic Peking Opera repertoire, has solid roots, is beautiful and vigorous, and the style is high and ancient.
The structure and layout of the works have reached a superb level, which is breathtaking, and it can also be seen from Mr. Mei's good intentions of integrating Peking Opera and calligraphy and painting with each other, in order to promote each other.
In addition, Mr. Mei is also very fond of the art of Yanglian, he not only wrote a tribute to the death of Chen Delin, the "Qingyi Taidou" of the Peking Opera circle, and Liu Tianhua, a famous national musician in China, but also wrote a picture of the great poet Xu Zhimo when he died in Jinan, recounting the friendship between them.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mei Lanfang moved to Shanghai and Hong Kong, with a beard and a clear mind, not performing for the Japanese and fake, showing the awe-inspiring dignity of preferring to starve to death rather than lose his discipline. During this time, he closed the door to customers, concentrated on studying poetry, posting, learning painting, and even decided to sell calligraphy and painting for a living.
On August 8, 1961, Mr. Mei Lanfang, the "god of Chinese opera beauty", died of illness in Beijing, and he not only left the "Mei Pai" Peking Opera art to posterity, but also left more than 100 exquisite poems and many immortal calligraphy and painting masterpieces.