Xu Beihong said:
Dong Qichang and Chen Jiru were of mediocre talent, and I especially hated Dong for ruining Chinese painting for more than two hundred years, which was a terrible crime.
Huang Binhong said:
After Wen and Shen, in order to rise extraordinary and unique, only Dong Qichang.
Dong Qichang, zi Xuanzai, Sibai, Xiangguang resident, Songjiang Huating people, famous calligraphers and painters of the Ming Dynasty. In the seventeenth year of the Wanli Dynasty, he was appointed as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and the official was shangshu of the Nanjing Rebbe, and the posthumous "Wenmin".
Such an evaluation of a polarized figure is rare in history, but we cannot ignore his artistic achievements. Today, we leave other people alone and look only at their paintings. Read the multi-faceted Dong Qichang together.
1. Inherit the antique works
According to reports, Dong Qichang began to study books at the age of 17, studied Yan Zhenqing's "Many Pagodas", and gradually entered Zhong and Wang; at the age of 22, he learned painting, initially taking Huang Gongwang as his teacher, and then studied all over the family, including Dong Ju, Ni Zhan and other masters. The characteristic of "imitation of antiquity" has not ceased to be dropped until its eighties, accompanied by its life.
Dong Qichang's paintings are often marked in the inscription as imitating a certain painting method of the Song and Yuan dynasties. Although it pays attention to imitation of the ancient everywhere, it is not that the mud is not ancient, but it can be shed and become its own style.
▲ Dong Qichang's "Landscape Album" imitates the work of Mi Fu
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The beauty of the painter is all in the smoke and clouds. Mi Hu'er said that Wang Wei's paintings were the most seen, all of which were like depictions, not enough to learn, but yunshan was used as an ink play. Although this language seems to be too correct, in the landscape and water, in front of the smoke clouds, it is not possible to dye it. When it is stained with ink, it is like steaming, and it is ready to fall, but it can be called a vivid rhyme.
Dong Qichang's "Essay on Painting Zen Room"
▲ Dong Qichang's "Landscape Album" imitates the work of a monk
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The painter took the ancients as his teacher and was already superior. Enter here, and take heaven and earth as your teacher.
▲ Dong Qichang's "Landscape Album" imitates Wang Meng's work
Huang Zijiu's paintings, as far as Yu saw, were no less than thirty.
△ Dong Qichang's "Landscape Album" imitates ni Zhan's work
Wu Zhonggui has a great spirit, Huang Zijiu has a special style, Wang Shuming has a previous rule, and all three have vertical and horizontal habits. Duyun Forest is ancient and natural, and the rice is only one person after the fool.
2. Painting of the Teaching Tree Stone Method
The paintings and apprentices left by the ancients are rare, and the manuscripts of famous masters are even rarer. This volume is in the Palace Museum and is entitled "Collecting Ancient Trees and Stone Paintings".
Because of the drawing, there is no order. The whole volume depicts pines, miscellaneous trees, reeds, water plants, slopes, mountains, and even courtyards, figures, etc., and finally ends with yellow and Ni landscapes, of which the tree method is particularly detailed, and Dong Qichang's self-inscription is a small character.
At the end of the painting, Chen Jiru inscribed: "This Xuanzai collects ancient tree stones, and each work is copied in a large scale." After the burning, it is occasionally obtained from the decorator, do not repeat it, for fear of moving the fire in his chest. Eyebrow Gongji. ”
"This Xuanzai collects ancient trees and stones, and each work is copied in a large scale" is a good summary of the painting method of the master painter, and reminds future generations: genius painters did not achieve it overnight, and outstanding paintings are not the product of sudden inspiration.
▲ Dong Qichang's "Collection of Ancient Tree Stone Painting Manuscript Volumes" Self-annotation "Mo Nong"
Dead trees are the most indispensable, when they emerge in the middle of the forest, they are seen in Canggu. Although the tree is juniper, cypress, poplar, willow, tsubaki, and locust, it must be lush, and its beauty lies in the jaggedness of the head of the tree and the four sides, one in and one in, one fat and one thin. The ancients drew circles with charcoal and dot them with the circle, which is why.
▲ Dong Qichang's "Collection of Ancient Trees and Stone Painting Manuscript Volumes" No. 2 Self-note "The point should be open"
Every morning, watch the clouds change, and get close to the middle of the mountain. When walking in the mountains, when you see a strange tree, you must take it from all sides. The tree has left to look into the painting, and the right to look into the painting, front and back. Familiar to see, natural and expressive. The preacher will be in form. Form and heart and hand together and forget each other, God's trust. Are there any trees that are not in the painting? In the special harvest of the silk, dense but not complex, steep and beautiful but not trampling, that is, a family ear.
▲ Dong Qichang's "Collection of Ancient Trees and Stone Painting Manuscript Volumes" No. 3
The method of painting trees must be based on turns. Every time you move your pen, you want to turn the corner. If writing is strong enough to turn the pen, it is even more important not to go forward and not to receive it. The tree has limbs, that is, it can be used as branches and leaves on all sides, but drawing a foot of tree, let alone making it half an inch straight, must be turned away with a pen. This secret also.
▲ Dong Qichang's "Collection of Ancient Tree Stone Painting Manuscript Volumes" No. 4
The trick to painting trees is only in many curves. Although there is no straight, there is no straight. It is pitched to the back, all taken from the song. Or, but don't the families have naoki? A: Although the tree is straight, the branches and hairs will not all be straight.
3. Establish a self-appearance
Superior martial arts, with the integration and integration of all the strengths as the highest realm, such as the last three palms of the "Descending Dragon Eighteen Palms", that is, based on the first fifteen palms, from its integration and change.
After mastering the ancient law, Dong Qichang eventually became a family and became a general of the "Huating Sect". Formed a personal style of "washing with a pen and light ink color", that is, "Dong Qichang" that we are common today.
▲ Dong Qichang's "Wan Lou CaoTang Diagram"
▲ Dong Qichang's "Quehua Autumn Color Map"
Xiaoxiang white cloud map (please rotate the screen to watch)
Dong Qichang