Pu Hua (1832-1911) was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. The history of Xu Mountain, the history of Xu Mountain, the bamboo people, the name of Jiuqin and Ten Yan Zhai, Jiuqin and Ten Yanlou, Furong Nunnery, Fu Rongxi, Jian Guru and Qin ventricles, etc. A famous calligrapher and painter in the late Qing Dynasty, he was known as the "Four Masters of the Shanghai School" together with Xugu, Wu Changshuo and Ren Bonian.
In the early years of the imperial examination, he only had to show his talents, so he never thought of his career, devoted himself to calligraphy and painting, traveled all over the world with a pen and inkstone, and later lived in Shanghai, selling paintings for a living. Good flowers, landscapes, especially good at painting bamboo, has the reputation of "Pu bamboo". The calligraphy is pure and colorful; His paintings are dry and moist, vigorous and charming, and the charm is clean and healthy.
Puhua flowers four screens
Vertical scroll, ink and color on paper
Size: 150×41 cm, about 5.5 square feet (each)
Created in: Bingwu (1906).
(1) The green bushes are rich and early budding, and the golden stamens are spotted and bloom late. Autumn should only be indifferent, and the chemical industry is a pity for lead. Xu Shanye Shi Puhua.
(2) The peach blossoms follow the flowing water all day long, and the hole is on the side of the clear stream. Write the poetry of the Tang people, and the beautiful water Puhua.
(3) A forest of its own, slender and complicated, scorching twilight. The red banana in the south will be compared to the appearance, and the pines and cypresses in Xiling will be concentric. The cutting glow is chaotic, and the rain and smoke become deeper. Zixue did not sweep the president of the court, and the idle hairpin group chanted to Qingyin. Xiushui Puhua.
(4) Fear of being afraid of being late for sleep, and being afraid that the ice will not be able to enter. Pretended to be a small peach apricot color, there is still a green thin snow frost posture. Bingwu Zhongchun, as Ying.
Puhua Four seasons flowers four screens
Vertical scroll, ink and color on paper
Size: 144.5×38.5 cm, about 5.0 square feet (each)
(1) Spring rushes to the cold and puts early plums. Anthropomorphic human drawing. Xiushui is a beautiful flower.
(2) Copying the pen of the Silla Mountain people. Xu Shan Ye Su Puhua.
(3) The big pearl is hidden, and the wind is slightly written rhyme. I don't get tired of looking at the railing, and I stand in the brocade clouds. Imitation of the Autumn Yue method. As a Puhua.
(4) Late flowers can be friends, and humble bamboo is a teacher. Generally high and clean, written to the poem in the painting. Yilu's owner, Pu Hua.
Pu Hua Zhu Zhu four screens
Vertical scroll, ink and color on paper
Size: 151×40 cm, about 5.4 square feet (each)
Created in: Ding Wei (1906).
Cinnabar painted bamboo, from the east slope, Shitao painted bamboo, good at ink, ink dripping, especially good at painting bamboo in the rain. Therefore, Puhua repeatedly mentioned these two predecessors. These four paintings are Pu Hua's own style, and the bamboo branch shape and leaf painting method are similar to Shi Tao. However, calligraphy is more prominent, and the "writing" of calligraphy is more emphasized than the "painting" of modeling. The composition is made of moss-green slender lake stones standing at the bottom of the picture, with a large piece of vermilion bamboo on top, and the ancient cinnabar painted bamboo, which is symmetrically harmonized with heavy green colors. The predecessors painted vermilion bamboo, or simple vermilion (including stones), or with ink to paint stones, Pu Hua used cyan and garcinia cambogia and light ink to paint moss green stones, thick ink dotted moss, color and ink are suitable and harmonious, bright and vulgar. The use of color is a feature of this picture. The change of the position of the inscription breaks the sense of monotony, the font is innocent and benevolent, the overall effect is excellent, elegant and vibrant, corresponding to the bamboo and stone, and the picture is more vivid.
(1) What is so bizarre about the painting work, I don't know if I do it. If you stand under the wall, the clouds will be shocking when the sun will be. Linqing Xiang Chen Renben. Zuo Ying.
(2) I remember that in the empty valley of the West Mountain, Xiao Xiao has these two or three poles. Pu Hua.
(3) I also have a pavilion to repair the bamboo, and I should also go back to listen to the sound of autumn. Imitation of the eastern slope of the book. Ding Wei is in midwinter, and Xu Shanye is a hero.
(4) Peace. Imitation of Su Changgong Zhu Zhuben. Xiushui Puhua.