◆ Xugu (1823~1896), commonly known as Zhu, name Huairen, monk name Virtual White, character Virtual Valley, number Ziyang Mountain People, Tired Crane. A famous painter of the Qing Dynasty, one of the four great masters on the sea, he is known as the "first painting garden of the late Qing Dynasty".
◆ Representative works include "Plum Blossom Goldfish Diagram", "Pine Chrysanthemum Diagram", "Gourd Diagram", "Huilan Lingzhi Diagram", "Fir Rake Diagram", etc., all of which are fine works that have been passed down from generation to generation.
◆ He once served as a general in the Qing Army, and because he was dissatisfied with the rule of the imperial court, he was unwilling to be ordered to attack the Taiping Army, and later became a monk, but he was not bound by the Buddhist rules and precepts, "not vegetarian, not worshipful", "only entertaining himself with calligraphy and painting".
◆ Xu Gu is an all-rounder of calligraphy and painting, who studied painting in his early years (the name of Chinese painting technique, which uses the boundary ruler lead when painting, so the name: boundary painting), and the portrayal of worker figures. He is good at painting landscapes, flowers, animals, birds, and especially squirrels and goldfish.
◆ He is also good at photography, gongli calligraphy, exquisite calligraphy, cold and novel style, elegant and fresh embroidery, no stagnation, ingenuity, unique style. Also able to write poems, there is the "Poetry of the Monk of the Void Valley".
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▼ Xu gu has a lonely temperament, and those who do not get along with each other cannot get their pieces of paper, but they are friendly with Shanghai famous artists such as Ren Bonian, Hu Gongshou, Wu Changshuo, etc. He is another strange master and calligrapher who appeared in the Xin'an painting world after the gradual river. Throughout his life, he wore Confucian clothes, military uniforms, and robes, and finally slept quietly on the paintings of the Guandi Temple in Shanghai, driving the crane to the west.
▼ His brush ink is old and clumsy. The use of dry pen bias, the color of the pastel color is mainly, and occasionally the strong contrast color, the style is cold and novel, elegant and fresh, there is no stagnation, ingenuity, opening a grid, Haipai master Wu Changshuo praised it as "a punch to break the past and come".
▼ Imaginary Valley's paintings are interesting, good at clever exaggeration, and deformation is one of his major creations. At the same time, we can also appreciate his art from the three aspects of truth, shedding, and straightness.
▼ "Truth" is to boldly exaggerate subjective exaggeration on the basis of grasping the essential things, so as to achieve a more transcendent artistic realm.
▼ "She" is a bold choice of shape, a false valley of the house, to come fiercely, to give wonderful, clever techniques.
▼ "Straight" is also an obvious feature of the line used by the virtual valley with the pen, and its concise lines are solemn, see the combination of straight squares, which requires a god-like, rather than a similar. He paints lines with lines that are not round, suddenly see the power, see the edges and angles, and the next stroke is affirmative, with a strong personality.
▼ The color of the virtual valley is light and elegant, and it attaches importance to the unity of tone and the simple beauty. He is also good at using white powder on colored paper ancient gold notes, making its white lotus flowers, crane hair pieces and white powder with stone green folded orchids, etc., appear vivid.
▼ The painting of the virtual valley has the fun of cangxiu, the color is fresh, the shape is vivid, the pen is cold, and the style is unique. The following group of squirrels is extremely vivid and vivid, or playing, or foraging, or climbing trees, with different shapes, whether it is a look or an action, it is exquisite and vivid.