Ink play
This set of 12 "Flower Offerings" was written in 1905, and may be classified as a work in the initial maturity period in the creative process of Pegatron's calligraphy and painting.
Qing Dynasty, Wu Changshuo, Flower Collection, 41.5×43cm×12, 1905
Wu Changshuo's painting of flowers, fruits and vegetables is different from his predecessors, he is good at pursuing the charm of nature, so that the viewer feels that he is not just painting, but expressing his love for life and yearning for nature.
This set of albums depicts ordinary flowers, fruits and vegetables, including apricot blossoms, cabbage, peonies welcoming spring, lychees, chrysanthemums, loquats, etc.
This frame of "Cabbage" is written spontaneously and freely, revealing a vigorous vitality.
Light ink rendering, using water to break the ink, draw the fat leaves of the cabbage, and draw the roots of the cabbage with two strokes, which is extremely wonderful.
Wu Changshuo loved to paint peonies in his later years, and his peonies were often rendered in carmine, which looked bright and bright, and just the right amount of water to break the color to make the flower color more charming.
The peony and spring flowers are painted together, and the two colors of carmine and tender yellow are matched together, which looks enthusiastic and unrestrained. Change the noble image of peony in people's hearts, so that the appreciator can feel the beauty of hearty colors.
Lychee is homophonic to "detachment", such a delicious fruit can only be picked and eaten, so the painters want to use the brush to keep such a delicious fruit. Lychee also has a beautiful meaning of good fortune in folklore, and Shanghai painters are very fond of taking lychee into their paintings.
Wu Changshuo's painting of lychee combined with Yuanren folded branches and flowers is composed, and the red fruits and green leaves are like red flowers and green leaves, which is pleasing to the eye.
Wu Changshuo "Flower Inventory Book"