When it comes to white painting in Chinese painting, it reminds li gonglin (Bo Shi). The Xuanhe Pictorial Notation says of Li Gonglin's paintings: "Creative places are like Wu Sheng (Wu Daozi), and dashing places are like Wang Wei." "The paintings that praise Li Gonglin combine two extremely rare artistic qualities and achievements, both with endless creative vitality and without falling out of the dust.
Li Gonglin, a master of white painting in the Song Dynasty, not only has the reputation of "the first character in Song painting", but also a poet and painter who is emotional and dusty, he reveals the inner world of his painting: "I give poetry to painting like a rioter, and I just chant emotion." ”
Li Gonglin's ability to control the lines is pure, and his white lines are rounded, simple and elegant, with strong artistic expression. For the popular "eighteen strokes" at that time, such as the ancient gossamer silk drawing (also known as the spring silkworm silk drawing), the iron wire drawing, etc., he did not determine which kind of depiction method, it was based on the different textures of the objects, random changes in the use, the pen was light and light ink, elegant and super-elegant, and the objects depicted were concise, clear and evocative. Next, let's take a look at his masterpiece of white character painting, the "Free Drawing", which Qianlong called Li Gonglin's first miracle.
This painting is expressed in the white depiction of ink hook lines, and in the huge army and soldiers, it shows the elegant charm of the literati painting, such a wonderful work is very prominent and rare.
In the first year of The Tang Dynasty's Zong Yongtai (765 AD), the rebel general Huai'en fabricated the lie that "the monarch collapsed, the Central Plains had no master, and Guo Ziyi died", and threw 300,000 allied troops such as Tubo, Hui, Changxiang, Qiang, Hun and Nula, plundered Jingyang, ravaged Fengxiang, and invaded Liquan, Fengtian, and Dazhenjing. Emperor Daizong urgently summoned Guo Ziyi to guard Jingyang, but in the face of danger, the soldiers were only able to distribute 10,000 people. By the time jingyang the enemy cavalry army had already surrounded it.
Guo Ziyi personally led two thousand armored horsemen into and out of the battle, and sent envoys to persuade Hui Hui to abandon the foolish move of "abandoning the old good and helping the rebels". The Hui army saw that a man had only 2,000 pieces of armor to ride into the battle, and the great chieftain heard that Guo Linggong was alive and was very surprised to see the Buddha. Guo Ziyi only led dozens of horses out of the battle, and avoided seeing the Hui Chieftain, "showing sincerity"! When the Hui chief saw Guo Gongzhen, who had removed a piece of armor, appear in front of him, he admired his sincerity and majesty, and immediately gave up his soldiers to get off his horse and bow down: "Guo Wu Father also" and swore to be reconciled as before.
In the painting, the scene of the Hui leader dismounting from his horse to pray to Guo Ziyi is outlined in a very detailed ink line. Guo Ziyi, dressed in cloth, looks broad and peaceful, but the fearless spirit is proudly displayed in front of the audience.
Guo Ziyi, who was free of scruples, accepted the hui chieftain's surrender, and the atmosphere of leniency and peace. In the left rear was the Tang army, which was heroic and radiant to a completely different degree from the Hui people and horses.
In addition, it can be seen that the decoration of the horses at the end of the scroll is extremely delicate and delicate. Although the picture of "Free Of Arms" is not rendered but only a line drawing, it can show a convex three-dimensional feeling. When dark colors are needed to set off, more compact points, lines, and surfaces are used to compose pictures, not only to draw beautiful and elegant battle robes, headdresses, armor, exquisite reins, saddles, weapons, flags, etc., but also to create a dark tone, setting off the structure and shape of each part of the object.
At the same time, dark tones are used to contrast with light and thin lines, showing a picture that is both complex and clear. Moreover, the horse's uneasy expression and ashamed eyes are also vividly expressed in the picture, which is very dramatic, as if to convey the mood instead of the Hui Chief.
The horses of the Hui army looked ashamed, as if they conveyed their mood instead of the Hui chieftain
Tang Army soldiers and horses
Although this style of white painting is very decorative, in the consistent pure lines, we feel that the painting also reveals the simple and elegant beauty of literati painting.
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