"The Biography of the Painter" ~ 379th
Text/Lu Xiuhui
Su Liupeng (1791-1862), also known as Pillow Qin, was a Native of Luofu Dao, Shunde County, Guangzhou Province, Guangdong Province.
Su Liupeng's father, Su Yishu, made a living practicing medicine and was also good at painting, and was a very good friend of Li Mingche, a Taoist priest of Pure Yang Guan in Dongshuzhu gang, Wufeng Village, Guangzhou. At the age of twelve, Li Mingche entered the Luofu Chong Virtual View as the Yellow Crown, and deeply understood the "Tao Miao" and the art of pushing and pushing. When Ruan Yuan presided over the administration of Guangdong, he revised the "Guangdong Tongzhi", Li Mingche suggested that the ancients not "Zhi" and the Japanese "Tujing", suggested that the picture be the most important, and presented the manuscript of the book he wrote, after Ruan Yuan read it, he asked him to take charge of the drawings, and prefaced his "Circular Heaven Map", which was published in the "Guangdong Tongzhi Yiwen Sketch". Because Su Yishu was influenced by Li Mingche, he also believed in Taoism, and when Su Liupeng was young, his father Su Yishu often took him to Luofu Mountain.
Luofu Mountain is a famous Taoist holy place and cultural mountain in Lingnan, and is the seventh cave heaven and the thirty-fourth blessed land of Taoism. According to Volume 27 of the Seven Signatures of Yunji, "The Cave of the First King's House. The second cave of the feather. Third West Side Cave. Fourth West Xuan Cave. Fifth Qingcheng Cave. Sixth Akagi Cave. Seventh Luofu Cave. The eighth verse is the cave. Ninth Forest House Cave. The tenth is the Cave of Cangshan. "All the literati who have visited Guangdong, such as Su Shi, Shangguan Zhou, Weng Fanggang, Ruan Yuan, Hang Shijun, He Shaoji, etc., have all climbed this mountain and left songs and poems. In Guangdong, most of the famous literati and inkers whose calligraphy, painting and poetry have formed an indissoluble relationship with Luofu Mountain.
Before su Liupeng was 36 years old, he went to Luofu Mountain three times to study and learn painting, and Su Liupeng's earliest experience of learning painting began from Luofu Mountain. At that time, Su Liupeng's master Dekun lived in Baoji Temple on Luofu Mountain, and Dekun was a painting monk named Zaishan, whose original surname was Li, a native of Jiangxi. Jiaqingjian lived in Luofu Baoji Temple, and was the abbot of the Great Buddha Temple in his later years. Dekun is self-absorbed, works poetry, and is good at painting characters. Especially good at photography. Therefore, in both the monastic and secular circles, Dekun is famous, and people even compare him with the famous painting monks of the late Tang Dynasty. The world calls his paintings "beneficial to the world, and to obtain their pieces of paper, as precious as arches". Dekun's characters are simple and elegant, and the brushwork is super elegant, and the themes are mostly taken from folk customs or historical figures, such as Magu Xianshou, Suwu Shepherd, And Dongfang Shuo stealing peaches. His heirloom paintings are mainly characters, but also paint landscapes, flowers and birds. The characters are especially white paintings and stick figures, which are the most appropriate for writing the content of the interpretation, which is close to quaint, and the landscapes, flowers and birds are mostly the background of the character paintings. Later, Su Liupeng had many similarities with Dekun in his painting techniques and subject matter.
In the second half of the sixth year of Daoguang (1826), Su Liupeng went down the mountain and began his career as a professional painter. He briefly worked as a schoolmaster in xinhui village. In the winter of the thirteenth year of Daoguang (1833), Su Liupeng temporarily lived in Guangzhou at Haizhu Temple on the south bank of the Pearl River. The main scene of Su Liupeng's life was spent in Guangzhou. He lived in Guangzhou as a professional painter, and at that time, the more prosperous area in Guangzhou was the area around the City God Temple, so it became the main place for his paintings. The City God Temple in Guangzhou is north of today's Wende Road and east of Beijing Road, that is, Zhongyou Avenue on Zhongshan Road. At that time, the City God Temple was a microcosm of Guangzhou's economic, cultural and social civilian life, which condensed the diversity of social beings. Here he observes life in detail, and can paint the looks, postures, and vivid appearances of various characters such as selling songs and selling art, telling books about the past, blind beggars, etc. In addition to money, he also gains subtle observations of life, as well as care for the vulnerable groups in society and compassion for the living beings. These are things that other painters cannot experience in the study hall and in the mountain springs. Su Liupeng's "On July 13, Li Zihu beckoned Deng Junyinquan to collect Liu Tang Pre-Autumn Wedge, Zihu gave five rows of thirty rhymes, and Yu also repaid it with twenty rhymes":
The Pearl River is wedgeded in autumn, and the soldiers are always floating to zero.
Who recounts, the vicissitudes of this and this have been repeated.
Happy to meet the present plum, trance set Gulan Pavilion.
The rolling river is white, and Xiao Xiaoliu is extinguished.
No flowers have to be put more, there is no wine to stop.
The mud marks are illusory, and the whales are empty and fishy.
In the past years, people scattered rain, and the cannons here flew thunder.
The road is more hazelnut, and time is changed for Yingmo.
Jiuyuan pain Zhang Han, Wanli remembers Liu Ling.
When the day to pass the flowers to drink, the night before the fall of the leaves to listen.
But it is faint, and the air is dark to the rain.
The poet of heavenly love is drunk, and the clouds open the sea and the sun shine.
Yanxia follows the Taoists, and the city is Lin Jun.
My sideburns have been added to the snow, and the old stars have gathered.
Article Jiang left pen, Kasa shoes painting in the middle screen.
The past praises cultural relics, and the customs are typical.
Qianqiu Liu Xiezuo, several generations of old Peng Ling.
It is difficult to shake hands and wake up alone.
Chenzhi respects the North Pole and wants to save Dongming.
Early for the atmosphere of immersion, when to pour the jade bottle.
After his life was stable, Su Liupeng opened a painting shop, known as "Pillow Qinxuan". Later, it was changed to "After all, it is like Xuan". In 1845, Su Liupeng lived in Datang Street, and his apartment was called "Furong Yinguan". The following year, the fifty-six-year-old Su Liupeng moved to Shiting Lane, where the studio and residence were titled "Shiting Pond Pavilion". He sold paintings and apprenticeds and lived the same life as today's calligraphers and painters who make a living from art. While teaching a few students, I sat and waited for customers to come to buy paintings. During Su Liupeng's painting sales in Guangzhou, he often interacted with local literati and inkers. He was a close friend of Li Changrong, who was then the chief of the Guanglu Temple, and was a petty official in charge of the supply of sacrifices and feasts. But he had a poetic name when he was young. Su Liupeng is twenty-two years older than Li Changrong, but they are deep friends, and in the inscriptions of Su Liupeng's paintings, there are many inscriptions by Li Changrong. In Li Changrong's "Poetry of Liu Tang's Poets", it can also be seen that he greatly appreciates Su Liupeng's painting skills and temperament.
When Su Liupeng painted The Fame of Rilong, he had close contact with Huang Peifang, Zhang Weiping, tan Jingzhao, Huang Peifang was able to write poetry, and Zhang Weiping and Tan Jingzhao were called "the three sons of eastern Guangdong". Huang Peifang is also a calligrapher and painter, one of the "Seven Sons of Eastern Guangdong". He has written no less than 50 kinds of works, a total of hundreds of volumes, and is known as "Lingnan Famous Confucianism". Zhang Weiping was a retired official, and when he was young, he had a poetic talent and was famous in the township. After the outbreak of the Opium War, Zhang Weiping witnessed Britain's barbaric aggression against China, aroused patriotic enthusiasm, and wrote "Sanyuanli", which praises the people's struggle against the British in Sanyuanli, and "Song of the Three Generals" praising Chen Liansheng, Ge Yunfei, and Chen Huacheng for sacrificing his life to serve the country. Tan Jingzhao was also a famous poet in Guangdong, who later became an official in Beijing and died in Renshou. Gong Yu made up a compilation and was self-satisfied. Tan Jingzhao drowned in the Bo group, worked in the text, and was even called In time. Su Liupeng's interaction with them has continuously improved his cultural and artistic accomplishment, and gradually affected his painting themes and artistic style.
Su Liupeng has participated in numerous collections of literati in Guangzhou, participating in the most famous annual Liutang wedge, and also participating in the poetry club, Bai Dongpo's birthday, Pearl River Spring Wedge, Jiyuan Jian Yong, FuxueGong Juju, Shiting Pond Hall, TingsongLu Chrysanthemum Feast, Plum Blossom Collection, Rongtang Literary Society and other literati art activities. The Liutang Wedge was organized by Li Changrong, whose Liutang is located in Taiping Yanhu on the south bank of the Pearl River in Guangzhou, overlooking the platform near the Haizhu Temple on the north shore. There is a pavilion in the hall, "there is a willow by the river, and there is a hall on the willow side", and a wedge is held once a year. The wedge is an ancient and early march day in the lunar calendar, to play with the orchids by the water's edge, in order to drive away the unknown literati and poetry collection activities. Su Liupeng once drew the "Liutang Repair Wedge Picture Scroll", and then wrote poems by various families. Su Liupeng's "Self-titled Li Zihu Guangwen Belongs to the Painting of Liu Tang Xiu Wedge Diagram and Huang Xiang Shi Sheren Rhyme":
The water's edge took advantage of the people's repair wedges, and Liu Tang Ya gathered Qiong feast.
Joined the army but interpreted as a barbarian language, Taifu advocated the true immortal talent.
Red roll Xiang curtain apricot blossom rain, floating jade generation grapes.
The drunken Qianqian helped me to go, and Xi Xi was like climbing the spring platform together.
During the Daoguang years, Yangyu painters were famous for their characters, Su Liupeng, Wang Pu, Jiang Lian, and Dekun, who adhered to the traditional painting style and formed their own unique artistic outlook, so they gradually changed the situation in which the courtyard school and the Zhejiang school occupied the main position in the painting world. Most of the shapes in their works are slightly distorted. Su Liupeng was influenced by the "Wu men sect", especially by Qiu Ying, his characters were elegant and beautiful, the depiction was subtle, the protagonist was serene, the temperament was graceful and luxurious, and the various forest branches and leaves in the close-up were meticulously sketched and dyed, and to create a character image, there was both a kind of strange and rugged, and a kind of elegance and elegance. In terms of pen and ink language, he uses finger ink and part-time work belt to write, which can make a huge scale.
In terms of intention and rules, Su Liupeng's figure painting works not only inherit the tradition, but also have no lack of innovations of the times, and his works have a variety of forms of expression, such as single full-body portraits, multi-crowd portraits, lining portraits, landscape figures, and small scenes close to the landscape point pattern. The modeling characteristics of Su Liupeng's figure paintings are first in "conveying the gods". The painting is majestic, vivid in form, contains connotation, and is interesting. Su Liupeng's characters in some themes are strange and rugged, and the characters in some themes are more elegant and noble.
Su Liupeng is good at finger painting, which is a painting made on paper or silk with fingers, palms and nails dipped in ink and color. After Qianlong and Jiaqing, the number of painters who used their fingers increased. He is good at "finger painting" and often uses "both finger and pen" to paint large figures. One finger and one stroke cooperate with each other, can "work" can "mean", and the line transition is smooth, which is quite handy. The landscape paintings and floral colors made by Su Liupeng are also appreciated by Shilin with their rich and light strokes, and the changes are elegant.
Su Liupeng is the best at character painting, and most of the content is based on the customs of the people in urban life, ordinary life, and the legends and stories loved by citizens. The characters of small traders and blind people selling art in his pen are realistic, one anger, one joy and one worry, or moving or quiet or shy or deceitful, the looks and mentality are meticulous, and the pen and pen convey the spirit, truly depicting various aspects of social daily life. The line drawing of the character system and the folds of the clothes is clean and elegant, and it has the charm of a large hand.
Lu Xiuhui has a poem "Song for Su Liupeng Pillow Piano", poem Yun:
It is difficult to climb to the top of the art, and it is often remembered as a toe.
The wind sweeps the earth, and the window returns to whoever is late.
Deep mountains into the Pavilion, new paintings with clouds.
In the blessed land, only five colors of paper remain.
The smoke is thick and inky, and the expanse is clear.
When Yang Chengqiao painted, after all, it was like this.
A moment of anger and joy, or embarrassment or deception.
The end of the pen is silky and buckled, and the beauty is flexible.
Poetry clouds are leafy and misty, and Yinghua Dongliang leans on.