The Five Dynasties Jing Hao Kuang Lu Tu is an ancient Chinese painting now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, by Jing Hao. "Kuang Lu" is LuShan, also known as Kuang Mountain, and it is said that Kuang Yu Jielu lived here in seclusion during the Yin Zhou Dynasty.
Jing Hao, a hermit painter of the fifth generation, was a key figure in the evolution of ink landscape painting, combining Wu Daozi's brush strokes in the Tang Dynasty with Xiang Rong's ink splashing technique to expand his ability to describe landscapes with pen and ink. Jing Hao's painting style was later inherited by Guan Tong, Li Cheng, and Fan Kuan, and evolved into an eternal and immortal monumental landscape. Kuang Lu Tu is an antique work that retains the characteristics of five generations of landscapes, but combines the style of the Northern Song Dynasty Court Painting Academy to reproduce the landscape image related to the theme of seclusion, paying tribute to Jing Hao, the father of the majestic style of landscape.
This painting is different from Fan Kuan's "Journey to Xishan", the three scenes of near, middle and far are not all placed on the central axis of the frame, but the turquoise and huts in the near scene are moved to the lower right corner of the picture, separated by a vast water area in the middle, opposite the large-scale main mountain in the upper left.
The main peak is formed by a vertical flake of mountain formations, and the outline of the rock is outlined with sharp twists and turns, the edges are neat, as if cut by a knife, and the rendering is thick ink on the inside of the surface, leaving blank near the outside of the outline. The shape and strokes of this type of mountain rock are similar to the reliefs of the tenth century excavated from Qixia Mountain in Nanjing, or the mountain stones on the "Eighteen Arhat Diagrams" passed down through the generations, with a flat, stylized style, so it shows a strong antique meaning.
The method of depicting mountain stones is derived from Fan Kuan, and the painter uses dense raindrops to depict the rough and hard texture of the rock. However, in addition to the point and promotion of the center of the pen, you can also see the sideways slashing brushwork.
Several pine trees in the foreground stand in the smoke, and the texture of the pine trunks and the delicate pine needles depicted are very delicate and realistic, which shows that the painter observes nature and has superb sketching skills.