Wu Jingting (1904-1972), known as Xi Zeng, Jinghu, originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was born in Beijing, and is a famous artist in the modern and contemporary painting world. He liked to paint since childhood, and joined the Chinese Painting Research Association at the age of 17, which was taught by Jin Cheng and Chen Shi, and then dabbled in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and after the 1950s, he devoted himself to innovating the old. In his early years, he taught at the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts and the National Peking Art College, and later served as a standing committee member of the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Association, the vice president of the Beijing Academy of Painting, a director of the China Artists Association and a secretary of the Secretariat.
Wu Jingting is good at landscape, taking the tradition of the law, profound skill, paying attention to sketching, and his pen and ink are smooth, the artistic conception is profound, and the atmosphere is beautiful. He is well aware of the Chinese artistic spirit of "obtaining from the heart and taking things from the heart", and his works have been repeatedly selected for large-scale art exhibitions at home and abroad and published in various professional newspapers and periodicals.
This work was made by Wu Jingting in imitation of the Song Dynasty's brushwork, and the whole work achieved "subtle physique and no delusion". The picture is rich, the scenery is complex but not chaotic. The shape of the mountain stone in the painting is full of changes, and the trees, small bridges, rivers, fishing gear, boats, white sails, houses and characters in the picture are interesting, forming a picture with clear layers, combination of dynamic and static, far and near, thick and light, thick and thin, so that the viewer can deeply feel the vitality and impact of art, which can be described as a wonderful product of the creation of the mind.
Under the guidance of the famous teachers Jin Cheng, He Luzhi, Yu Difan, and Xiao Qianzhong, Wu Jingting followed a trail starting from the "Four Kings", especially Wang Shigu, and indirectly traced the trajectory of the famous masters of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, repeatedly copied the masterpieces of previous dynasties, and constantly studied them, laying a solid foundation for traditional painting. Wu Jingting is talented and very hardworking, his works are profound, and his style is elegant and handsome. In the first half of his life, most of his works were colored with fine brushstrokes, comprehensively using the ancient painting methods, and forming a clean and powerful painting style according to his own understanding. After liberation, he traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, trying to seek change by sketching, and his later works paid more attention to the portrayal of the atmosphere of the scene, and the pen and ink coloring was gorgeous and pleasing to the eye, sometimes using boneless methods, sometimes using mud gold outlines, gold and blue cover dyeing, and there is a kind of rhyme.
