Li Di (12th century AD), Southern Song Dynasty painter, a native of Heyang (present-day Mengxian County, Henan Province), date of birth and death unknown. During the Northern Song Dynasty Xuanhe period, he was a painting academy Cheng Zhonglang, and during the Southern Song Dynasty Shaoxing, he was reinstated as the deputy envoy of the painting academy, and he was active in the court painting academy for decades. Gonghua bird bamboo stone, eagle and eagle dog cat, ploughing cow pheasant, long in sketching, intercropping landscape scenery. The concept is exquisite, the skill is profound, and the majesty is moving. The "Maple Eagle Pheasant Diagram" is gentle and delicate and cute, and the image of "Chicken Chick Diagram" is vivid and superb, and the portrayal is meticulous and has its own demeanor. Landscape master Li Tangfa also has many masterpieces. Commentators say that his painting of the dove is "cold and handsome"; the painting of the partridge is "warped". (Li Li edited the collection according to the network data)
【Name】Song Li Di Wind and rain return to the pastoral map
【Era】 Song Dynasty
【Introduction】Shaft, color on silk, length 120.7, width 102.8 cm. Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Li Di, a native of Heyang (present-day Mengxian County, Henan), according to the "Painting Succession Supplement", he was a courtesan of the Three Dynasties of Filial Piety, Guang, and Ning, and painted flowers, birds, bamboo stones, and miscellaneous paintings. This drawing depicts two shepherd boys returning to the herds along the willow bank, the wind and rain are great, and the willow branches and bushes are swaying in the wind and rain. The shepherd boy steered the cattle against the wind, one of them leaned over and pulled the bucket, and the other shepherd boy's bucket was blown down by the wind. This is a common scene in the jiangnan countryside, and the painter is good at extracting beauty from it and is full of life. The whole picture is carefully and rigorously written, and the expression of the special child and the attitude of the buffalo are also depicted very realistically. This map has the six-character paragraph of "Jia Wu Nian Li Di Pen", "Jia Wu" is the first year of Emperor Xiaozong Chunxi (1174 AD), which should be the earliest piece of Li Di's works passed down from generation to generation. On the painting are the half-seal of the "Ceremonial Ji Cha Si Yin" of the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Zhu Tang and the Qing Nei Fu Jian Zang Seal, and the Bibliography of the Three Editions of Shiqu Baodi.
【Name】Song Li Di Snow Return to Mutu
【Introduction】Album, silk, ink, pastel, length 24. 2 cm, width 23. 8 cm. (Japanese) Yamato Mandarin Collection.
This image depicts a snowy winter in which cattle herders return home with their prey. The cattle herder curls up to resist the cold wind, the dynamics of people and cattle are accurate and vivid, the pen and ink changes delicately on the slopes of trees and stones, and the colors are elegant and soft. Although it is a skit, it is a good expression of the empty and quiet scenery behind the snow.
Southern Song Dynasty Li Di "Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram", silk, vertical axis, color, length: 115.2 cm, width: 52.8 cm.
The former collection of Qingnei Province is now in the Shanghai Museum.
This picture depicts bamboo leaves covered with snow, lightly stained with thin snow on the thorn tree, inhabited by a Burlau. The hillside is outlined with a thick pen, and a clump of decaying grass is written to add snow. Double hooks write bamboo, tree trunks, and color rendering. Birds are painted in a combination of boneless and hooked, realistic and vivid. This painting is a meticulous work of the author in his later years.
【Name】 Song Li Di Su poultry rapid turbulence map
【Introduction】Album, silk, ink, light color. Vertical 24. 8 cm, width 26 cm. Cleveland Museum of Art.
In the picture, the ancient cypress is born of stone, intertwined roots, and the stream is turbulent, rushing down, splashing waves. The two birds perch, rest on the branches, and enjoy themselves, forming a static and dynamic contrast with the waves. The compositional form breaks the diagonal layout with steep treetops and two birds, which also gives the picture a sense of balance. Trees are mostly depicted with vibrating pens, and the lines are trembling. The curved branches of the ancient cypress and the rushing stream give the picture a strong sense of movement. The combination of line outline and ink baking and dyeing to express the waves is unique.
"Chicken Chicks to Be Fed" page, Song, Li Di painting, silk, color, length 23.7cm, horizontal 24.6cm.
The two chicks lay on one side and stood facing the same direction, holding their breath, as if they had heard the call of their mother to forage for food, and were about to run. The painter uses black, white, yellow and other thin lines to closely depict the plush texture of the chicks, this picture was painted by Li Di in his later years, the composition is extremely simple, without any background contrast, but it captures the momentary look of the chicks, which is moving.
【Name】Song Li Di red and white hibiscus figure
【Category】Ancient Chinese paintings
【Era】Southern Song Dynasty
【Origin of cultural relics】Originally belonged to the collection of the Yuanmingyuan
【Cultural Relic Status】It is now in the collection of the National Museum of Tokyo, Japan
【Introduction】
A total of two paintings, silk, color, each vertical: 25.2cm, horizontal: 26.0cm.
The red and white hibiscus figure is considered to be the highest level of flower and bird painting in the Southern Song Dynasty. The color of the picture is thick, and the blending adopts the technique of infested bone painting, which transitions naturally, showing the subtle changes in the shape and color of hibiscus petals. Delicate and transparent colors, reflecting the characteristics of rich and fresh. The technique of line drawing is also meticulous, and the furry appearance on the leaf veins is expressed. Line drawing has the spirit of the five generations of Huang Zhen's painting style. Compared with the two pictures, the overall grasp and composition of the flowers of the red hibiscus are better.
These two paintings, one is a red hibiscus (left) and the other is a white hibiscus (right). Both paintings are inscribed in the upper left part of the picture: "Qingyuan Ding Wei Nian Li Di Painting", which can be known to be the work of Li Di, a painter from the late Northern Song Dynasty and the early Southern Song Dynasty. Ding Weinian is 1197, according to Xia Wenyan's "Picture Painting Treasure Book", Li Di served in the painting academy during the Xuanhe years, but from the existing works of Li Di, I am afraid that its era is much later, if the time of Li Di's entry into the painting academy is calculated from the age of 20, then the painting is almost a hundred years old, so researchers believe that the "Picture Painting Treasure Book" is wrongly recorded, Li Di should be a painter in the early Southern Song Dynasty. Li Di specializes in depicting flowers, birds, and animals, and this painting is the highest masterpiece of Li Di's surviving works. Since both paintings are inscribed with paintings by Li Di of the Fallen Qingyuan Ding Wei Nian, it can be known that they are works of the third year of Qingyuan (1197 AD).
Hibiscus varieties should be drunken hibiscus, with flowers initially white, followed by a gradual reddish tinge. The depictions in this painting are extremely realistic, with slender brushes and subtle color levels, so they are full of interest. Making good use of the remaining white picture space also appears natural and quiet.
The two paintings were supposed to be separate albums, but in order to match the appreciation of Tang paintings born from the aesthetics of the Japanese tea ceremony (in this case, Tang paintings referred to paintings brought back to Japan from China), they were framed into a pair of hanging scrolls.
Song Li Di
Taipei National Palace Collection Li Di Cat
Southern Song Dynasty Li Di Snow In the Pastoral Return Map
Southern Song Dynasty Li Di
Li Di has many works, most of which have annual models. Chunxi's first year (1174) made the axis of "Wind and Rain Returning to Pastoral", which is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei; Chunxi's fourteenth year (1187) "Snow Tree Cold Bird Diagram" axis is now in the Shanghai Museum. In the second year of Qingyuan (1196), he made the axis of "Maple Eagle Pheasant Diagram", the album of "Chicken Chick Feeding Chart" of The Third Year of Qingyuan (1197), and the album of "Hound Dog Diagram", all of which are in the Palace Museum. Zi Demao, during the reign of Emperor Rizong Chunyou (1241-1252), was to be edicted. Painting the family law, like painting flowers, birds, eagles, and birds, and wild scenery does not catch his father. The most recent period of Li paintings seen is the third year of Qingyuan (1197), as in the seventh year of Xuanhe (1125) of the Northern Song Dynasty, which takes seventy-three years, according to which the age of Li's existence should be more than ninety.