Zhong Li (Ming) Character Qin Li (Ming Painting Recorded as The Name Qin Li), Number Nanyue Mountain Man, Department "Spotless", Zhejiang Shangyu People. Calligraphy Zhao Mengfu, good at painting cloud mountains, grass worms. The gate of the residence is opposite the South Mountain, the ancient pine shade, the sun is under it, and the peaks and clouds change. When you meet the pride, you will be able to write hard. Li Kong's painting cloud is the same title: "Zhong Sheng first learned Dai Wenjin (進), and later quite out of the machine shaft. "However, his paintings are often exquisite and lackluster. Between Shōwa and Koji (1465-1505), they entered naojinji-den. Emperor Xiaozong once looked at his paintings with his back, and suddenly called him "the old immortal of the world", because he used it because of the engraving of the seal. "Shangyu County Chronicle, Ming Painting Record, Silent Poetry History, Painting History Huijiao, Picture Painting Treasure Book Continuation, Four Friends Zhai Cong Said"
Zhong Li Raise a glass to play the moon Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
The vertical axis of "Raising a Glass to Play the Moon" is a poetic painting created based on Li Bai's poems, with a concise composition, full of a sense of ethereal air, which triggers the viewer to produce a romantic and sensual emotion. In the past, this painting was considered to be the masterpiece of the Southern Song Dynasty court painter Ma Yuan, but it took hundreds of years to reveal the true identity of the author. In the lower left corner of the painting, a set of signatures and seals is found. However, two later collection seals overlapped over this signature and seal. The signature is written in thick ink, so the word "Chin li" can be clearly pronounced, which may be the size of the painter. Another clue to the name lies in the covered seal. Through photography, we first enlarge the part of the seal, and then use image processing to separate the upper and lower two different seals, and we can interpret the lower layer of the seal as "Zhong's Qinli". Now juxtaposing the signature with the seal, the author of the painting is ready to come out, he is a court painter of the Ming Dynasty, Zhong Li.
Director Wang Yaoting of the Calligraphy and Painting Department dictated: The story of the excavation of the model seal
Rediscovering the author of this painting "Raising a Glass to the Moon" has a small story. Probably in the 1970s, in order to shoot some famous paintings of the Forbidden City, we proposed these works. When I found that in the lower left corner of the painting, there were two signatures of this word, and at that time I thought that this should be the signature of the painter, and this signature did not look like the original "Ma Yuan" indicated on the label of the painting. After careful viewing and discussion by this scholar, it was found that the signature on this painting was very similar to the work of a Ming Dynasty painter "Zhong Li" collected in Japan, and there was exactly the same signature on the painting, so it was determined that the original author was "Zhong Li".
Zhong Li Cold Rock Snow Map Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
The change of seasons changes the face and adds new colors to nature, and in winter, everything withers, presenting a lonely scene, which is the most suitable for painting. Snow covers the entire creek bank and mountain peaks. Long pines stand tall in the middle of the garden, and plum blossoms bloom around the houses, adding vitality to the quiet atmosphere. Inside the house sat two literati who talked with candles, and the faint candlelight also brought a touch of warmth to the lonely and dim scenery. The most common technique for painting "winter landscapes" is "borrowing the ground for snow" - that is, using the reserved silk background color as white snow, and then rendering in ink at the sky surface and mountain pass, setting off the snowy effect. This painting gathers thick and thick black lines on the side of the mountain stone, so that the pencil and the narrow rock are parallel to each other, so that the whole painting has a strong decorative meaning. Judging from the style of painting, this painting may have come from the Ming Dynasty court painter Zhong Li, although there is a note of "Ma Yuan" in the lower left corner, but it is suspected to be a counterfeit added by posterity to increase the value of the painting. There are also a group of spring and winter landscape works preserved overseas, and it may be speculated that this painting is also one of a set of "four seasons landscapes". This combination of seasonal seasons and Gaoshi images in the same set of paintings was very popular in the Zhejiang school and the court in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and became a good art form for the literati or aristocratic class.
Zhong Li View of the Waterfall Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ming Zhong Qinli Snow Creek Boat Map Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing