Dong Bangda (1699-1769) character Fucun, also known as non-wen, number Dongshan, Zhejiang Fuyang people. In the eleventh year of Yongzheng (1733), he entered the priesthood, and in the second year of Qianlong (1737), he was taught the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and he entered the inner court to participate in the compilation of the books of "Shiqu Baodi", "Secret Hall Zhulin", and "Western Qing Ancient Classics". He liked calligraphy and painting, and was the abbot of the Royal Academy of Painting, and was the royal painter of the Qianlong Emperor. He once wrote and wrote a preface to Xueqin's "Southern Harrier and Northern Iris Examination WorkZhi", and the friendship between the two was not shallow. Ji Xiaolan was also employed under Dong Bangda.
His paintings are close to Dong Qichang, and he peeks at Dong Yuan, Ju Ran and Huang Gongwang, and the commentators have the saying that the three of ancient and modern times inherit each other, which is very famous. The work is made of dry pen, the line is dry and light and soft, bright and smooth, dense and appropriate, pay attention to baking dyeing to strengthen the dry pen to outline the charm of the rubbing, so that the pen and ink are integrated.
In the past, the discussion of Qing Dynasty Cichen painting was mostly included in the name of court art, and the Qing Dynasty court, as the largest art patronage and collection, has always been the focus of research on the history of painting, and a large part of the works of Cichen are preserved in the Qing Dynasty court. Cichen, that is, literary attendants, are officials who rely on the knowledge of lexicography to physically objects in the complex documents around the emperor, they entered the career through the imperial examination, most of them were in Hanlin positions, and the evaluation of them by posterity was also two extremes, praising them as creating a rice bucket of court art, and ridiculers compared them to craftsmen, the reason for which also came from the gap between literati painting and professional painting.
The number of poets who once entered the Zhinan Study in the Qianlong Dynasty cannot be counted, but those who have influenced Qianlong's cultural undertakings, calligraphy and painting appreciation, and poetry creation and have been able to leave their names in qingshi can be verified. Dong Bangda is one of the most important ones. The commentary on Dong Bangda in the "Painting Knowledge of the National Dynasty" is that "born plain and prosperous, the official Hanlin, the house closed door to promote the promotion of preaching, from which the tourists have many articles and famous places, middle-aged accumulation of Dai placed a number of rafters, and the retreat of the dynasty is hand-made to wash the flowers and wash the stones, and the Po Ruye is also." Dong Bangda accompanied the emperor on many national tours and was deeply loved by the emperor.
Dong Bangda's landscape brush and ink are very pure, light ink blending, deep scenery, strong antique ability, but the painted mountain stone is fine, easy to use small stones to pile, slightly trivial, the sense of the whole is not enough, he spent most of his time as an official in the DYNASTY, and did not have much time to observe the real landscape, inheriting the characteristics of the abstraction and symbolization of the Four Kings Landscape. Like Wang Yuanqi, he likes to burn ink with a dry pen, tearing and rubbing layer by layer, and using the pen to be calm, as if the pen has "King Kong". However, his pen and ink language skills could not be compared with Wang Yuanqi.
Shen Zongqian once mentioned in the "Mustard Boat Study Painting Compilation" on the "Sect": "Bunda Gong shanshui, Cangyi Ancient Thick, the commentator said 'three Dong Xiangcheng, the painter is on the right track' Muyuan, Qichang and Bundaye." and the three descend from each other. Placing Dong Bangda alongside Dong Yuan and Dong Qichang, the Qianlong Emperor also proposed in Dong Bangda's "Dong Bangda Painting Du Fu's Poetry" that Dong Bangda's landscape belonged to the Southern Sect of Orthodoxy, which means to praise the orthodoxy of Dong Bangda's painting.
Mr. Shan Guoqiang, a member of modern history, pointed out that such evaluations are really touted, "Dong Bangda official zhi Libu Shangshu, often called upon to paint for the emperor, inherit the 'four kings' painting style, make good use of dry brushes, and the praisers are said to be juxtaposed with Dong Yuan and Dong Qichang, and there is a saying that 'the three Dongs of ancient and modern times are inherited'. The key point pointed out in his article is Dong Bangda's landscape inheriting the "Four Kings" painting style. Regardless of whether it is the three or the second dong, if the four kings are skipped, it is impossible to establish a connection between Dong Bangda and Dong Qichang and Dong Yuan. Therefore, the achievements of Dong Bangda's landscape painting are first reflected in the inheritance and development of the "Four Kings" painting.