Introduction: Li Song was an excellent painter in the Southern Song Dynasty, whether in landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, etc., he showed a unique painting talent, especially the fineness of the depiction of objects and images reached an almost extreme realm.
Such a painter as the Southern Song Dynasty
As a child, he worked as a carpenter
Later, by chance, he learned to paint
The painting is also very close to the people, and the name is moving
People, landscapes, flowers and birds, and pavilions are all proficient
If it wasn't Qi Baishi, then who was he?
He is the old painter of the Three Dynasties- Li Song
《Water Temple Beckoning Cool Map》
Born into poverty, he loved painting
The "Painting Succession Addendum" says: "Li Song, a Qiantang person." Less carpenter, quite far rope ink, and later li Chongxun's adopted son, gong painting characters Daoshi, have to be trained from the will, especially in the boundary painting, Guang, Ning, Li three dynasties painting academy to be commanded", was honored as "the old painter of the three dynasties".
During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a small carpenter in Hangzhou named Li Song, although he was born poor, but at a young age he could eat by his own craftsmanship, and was a talented and willing to endure hardships. Perhaps the carpenters are very rigorous and accurate, Li Song's modeling ability and adaptability are beyond ordinary people. Therefore, this little carpenter Li Song, who had the spirit and was willing to endure hardships, was recognized by Li Congxun, the court painter at that time, and adopted as an adopted son, who undertook to teach painting skills, and eventually became a generation of famous artists.
Li Songzi inherited his father's business, and although he later waited for the edict of the painting academy, he was born into poverty and was in such a peaceful corner of the Southern Song Dynasty and the unstable situation of the times, the monarch was content with pleasure, regardless of political affairs, and the people did not talk about life, as a sentient painter, he would not be unmoved. But his own strength is so meager, he can only rely on painting to convey his thoughts.
Li Song created many works, and there are more than fifty works that appear in the bibliography alone. Among them, the main figure painting is depicted, and depicting the living conditions of the lower working people has become the main theme of his performance. Someone once inscribed "Li Shi is the most knowledgeable about peasant interests" on his "Spring Creek Crossing Cow Map", and these seven words are indeed a high summary of Li Song's painting art characteristics that pay attention to the lives of the lower classes and are best at expressing the interests of peasant life, and are also an appropriate evaluation of Li Song's art.
Li Song's love for the peasants made him have a strong sympathy for the hardships of the peasants' lives, and in his work "Fu Tian Tu", he showed the scenes of peasants working in warehouses, officials urging rent, peasants' hunger and anger, revealing Li Song's dissatisfaction with the rulers' exploitation of the peasants.
"Moonlit Night Looking at the Tide"
In the work of writing, especially good at boundary painting
Li Song's boundary painting skills are extremely profound, and he can accurately depict buildings with complex structures, diverse postures and different angles in a disciplined and rigorous manner, almost reaching the realm of "doing whatever you want and not exceeding the rules".
We know that several painters of The same era as Li Song have been recorded in the history of art with their respective specialties, Liu Songnian has won praise for painting different scenes of the four seasons, and Ma Yuan and Xia Gui's "Horse Corner, Summer Half" has attracted much attention in the history of landscapes. What Li Song makes history remember is the fascination of fine expression of trivial items.
Looking at the paintings left by Li Song, the figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, and pavilions are all-encompassing, and the expression techniques are also diverse, including custom paintings with white and pale colors, as well as exquisite flower and bird paintings, as well as landscape paintings rendered by ink, which can be described as Danqing's clever hands and good at all.
The strict education of The Hanlin Painting Academy makes it have a rigorous modeling ability, and the images of his goods, old women, and babies are vivid and vivid, showing that the techniques are sought to write, and there is no lack of freehand agility in the work, and there is no loss of exquisite meaning in the freehand.
Because Li Song worked as a carpenter when he was young, although his boundary painting architecture was taken from Liu Songnian, it was often built higher and wider, with a strong and powerful pen, and exquisite and luxurious color. Compared with Liu Songnian's subtle strength, Li Song is much more proud and fierce, his grasp of the boundary painting is more accurate, the painting is handy, and even without the boundary ruler and "the rules of the palace and the pavilion are prepared with rope and ink"; even if it is not a boundary painting, the portrayal of the scenes in the painting is also meticulous.
Li Song is famous for his boundary paintings, but he is not limited to boundary paintings, and he is also very accomplished in style painting, his figure paintings are "as fine as hair with a brush" and "the spirit is full of vitality"; landscape painting is "the artisan's management, the love is outside the image" as the victory; the flowers and birds are "exquisite and rigorous in painting without feeling cumbersome and stagnant".
The painters of the Ming and Qing dynasties looked down on the boundary painting and thought it was too ingenious, but in the case of Li Song, it was the people who determined the superiority of the work, not the technique.
《The Lonely Pavilion at the End of the Water》
Intention to save the pen first, draw to the fullest
Li Song is not only an extremely meticulous observer of real life, but also a painting master who is good at mobilizing various pen and ink language to shape different artistic images.
In Li Song's paintings, the rich modeling and expressiveness of the lines make it a distinctive artistic feature of the painter's creation. This is richly illustrated in his works such as "Flower Basket Diagram" and "Cargo Lang Diagram". In "Skeleton Illusion", Li Song uses the pen to frustrate powerfully, with circles and angles in the square, and the texture changes delicately, and can always infuse the painter's sentiments and ideas into the intricate brush lines, so that the painting concept and the pen complement each other.
《Flower Basket Diagram》
The picture is mainly based on a delicately woven flower basket, which is filled with colorful and beautiful, delicate and colorful flowers, such as red pomegranate flowers, golden yellow grass flowers, white gardenias, mallows and so on. Against the background of the dark green leaves, the colorful flowers are even more delicate and moving. Li Song used double hooks to fill in the color of the brush, but the sketching skills of the exquisite Portrait successfully achieved the picture effect of flowers and vitality.
《Cargo Lang Tu》
There are as many as four paintings that have survived in the world, their overall conception is rigorous and changeable, the characters are vivid and vivid, especially the children's images, the postures are diverse, but they are lively and cute, and the expressions are portrayed just right. From the technical point of view, the line drawing is the main and slightly pasteled, and the work is written with writing, both the strength and fluency of the line drawing, and the setbacks of the war pen and clothing. The whole picture is filled with a relaxed and happy atmosphere, and the perfect combination of superb painting skills and sincere emotions has created these masterpieces with similarities.
"Skeleton Illusion"
The composition of the corners is adopted, and the focus of the picture is on the lower left corner, showing the true portrayal of the southern Song Dynasty. The color is light and elegant, the water content of the line pen is less, the line is drier, and the thickness and frustration of the line change more. The use of double hook expression technique, first draw the character's clothing line, slightly heavier, in the inner side of the clothing line to outline a light brush, this performance stems from the rendering technique in the brush painting, so that the painting has both the rigor of the brush stroke, but also does not lose the free-spirited painting, coupled with the appearance of two skeletons, more romantic mystery of the picture.
"Chibi Futu Page"
This picture should be painted by Li Song in his later years, and the "Li Song" book on the right side, although the size is small, but the waves between the rivers are turbulent, and the contrast with the cliffs and figures is strong, and the artistic level of painting water is extremely high. Su Shi, dressed in red, turned his head to look back at the cliff, the other two were silent, the monstrous waves sounded in his ears, coupled with the dark silk color, he felt a boundless loneliness coming.
Whether this picture was written at the call or not, it is written about the lonely thoughts of the literati throughout the ages, and there is Li Song's understanding and respect for Su Shi in the painting.
"Qiantang River Tide View Map"
This painting does not depict the luxury of the dignitaries and nobles, the carriages and horses, nor does it depict the grand situation of the people watching the tide, but what appears in Li Song's pen is a clear autumn night, when the moon is in the sky, and the roaring Qiantang River tide is displayed through the high pavilions and branches, making the picture appear so empty and bleak, depressed and sad, that a sense of depression and misery rises after people look at it. This may be Li Song's expression of ridicule and righteous indignation toward the southern Song Dynasty's small court of stealing peace and watching the tide.
《View of the Tide on the River》
epilogue:
Since the beginning of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the meticulous and meticulous character history painting has matured through the Tang and five generations, and has reached its peak in the period of physical painting in the two Song Dynasties, and the painting method has become more and more perfect and neat. Especially after the Southern Song Dynasty, this method of painting of human history has been skillfully applied to customs and themes. Li Song of the Southern Song Dynasty was one of the best.
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