Zhang Kun, a Qianlong Jiaqing people, inherited family studies, poetry and painting are prestigious, especially good at landscapes, wen zhengming, Shen Zhou relics. Zhang Kun is a representative of the "Jingjiang School" in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and his painting ideas are mainly expressed in four aspects. First of all, it puts forward the category of "painting must be jingguan first to build a foundation", and at the same time, it also proposes the category of "the atmosphere of muddled perseverance". Secondly, it is emphasized that "learning from the ancients must save me" and relying on the observation of nature to "enter and exit the barrier" and oppose the Loudong faction, Yun Nantian and Wang Yi and other schools. It is required to "enter the Law and song people" and "directly upright". Third, the profound influence of Zen thought. Fourth, the repetition of the "Six Laws." These aspects have a foundational effect on the formation of the style and painting concept of the Jingjiang School. When he was young, he saw Tongyi Pan Gongshou painting imitation Wen Zhengming, and he was happy to imitate it; then he changed his religion to Shen Zhou, and his cangxiu was muddy, but he lacked a clear atmosphere. It is also rare to be able to get rid of the four kings. You Chang painted Pine, when Gu Heqing was known for his YiLiu poetry, and was good at painting willows, so he had the reputation of Zhang Song and Gu Liu. Life is high from the position, not light ink. Encounter the scenery of the heart, or the months do not return.
The "Antique Landscape Album" was written in 1813, twelve open, and the paintings are elegant and exquisite. This album is a representative work of Zhang Kun's artistic maturity in his 50s. The foothills of the mountains in the album are covered with trees, and the pito is intermittent, and the stone bridge continues to form a road, and it winds up the road. Houses are placed in the middle of the pine bushes, and the mountains are leaned on the back, and the lake reaches the foothills, and the water flows down to form a lake. The painting style of the whole work is fine and the color is elegant, especially the Jin pine in the picture, the trunk is tall and handsome, the needles are delicate, dense and not chaotic, which fully demonstrates Zhang Kun's painting talent. The author takes nature as a teacher, the brushwork is loose, and the ink is flattened, so that the subtle ink dots are densely layered with the picture, showing a clear and bright, plain and innocent style. The layout of this frame is rigorous, and the pen and ink are neat and powerful. The mountains and stones painted in the album are solid and clear, the virtual reality is born, and the realm is beautiful. The author paints with dots, and fills the picture with countless sizes, light or heavy burnt inks, rich and multi-layered, making the mountains and rivers and trees appear lush and magnificent, and the realm is also full of depth. In particular, his pine trees, the trunk is tall and handsome, the needles are delicate, dense but not chaotic, the composition of the middle scene, the foreground usually adds secluded houses, buildings, characters, clouds and seas of pine waves thick and orderly, clear layers, the color is mainly light, quiet and elegant, giving people a beautiful enjoyment. Although this pen is too slender, it can still be deep, and it is a masterpiece of Zhang's.
Zhang Kun is talented, "poetry and painting famous Jingkou, flowers, bamboo stones, Buddha statues are superb, especially good at landscape, self-text, Ni Shang peeping song and Yuan, Gao Zi position, the next pen to think of the ages, there is the eyes of the Zhenjiang school." (Jiang Baoling's "Xinglin Today") Zhang Kun is not opposed to "shi guren" in painting techniques, but is opposed to learning the skin of the ancients. He paid particular attention to "teacher creation", and his artistic achievements were mainly in landscape paintings based on turquoise. In his youth, he traveled to the scenic spots in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Zhenjiang is the place where he often sketched, but he was not satisfied with passively copying the landscape, but advocated giving play to the subjective initiative of the painter, exploring the natural interest in the landscape, and expressing his feelings.
Zhang Kun's paintings are unique. "Jingjiang Painting Collection" said: "Zhang Kun's paintings are self-explanatory, do not follow the predecessors, the weather is majestic, the real enough to cover everything, at the same time, the families are exhausted, then called the Jingjiang School, Mr. Shi was the first to create it." Thus affirming Zhang Kun as an open-end figure of the Jingjiang School.
Wu Hufan inscription. Qianjingtang Old Collection.
Style: Imitation of the Twelve Figures of the Famous Masters of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, showing the Yuangao Lord Junjiao. When the decyl unitary summer may be looking, Dan disciple Zhang Kun.