To judge the quality of a work of art, we can consider the difficulty of the technique and the artistic conception behind the work, or the time of circulation of the work, etc., and the market value of the final work is often an important reference for measuring the quality of the work!
In August last year, at an auction in Guangzhou titled "Outside the Things: Ancient Calligraphy and Paintings and Literati Study," one piece caught the attention of many bidders.
Zheng Banqiao Chinese painting "Ink Bamboo Diagram"
The great talent Su Dongpo once said that "it is better to eat no meat than to live without bamboo", so planting some bamboo in the living environment has become the ideal of life for many literati, and when this ideal cannot be realized, it is not a luxury to hang a "bamboo painting" in the study.
In this auction, after several rounds of bidding, a painting about bamboo was auctioned for 16.1 million yuan, plus commissions and other expenses, the total price exceeded 18 million, and this bamboo picture has a poem written on it:
Seventy old men paint bamboo stones, and the stones are more straight. I know that this old pen is extraordinary, standing tall on the wall of Chihiro. Qianlong Yanwei, Itabashi Zheng Xie.
This work is Zheng Xie Zheng Banqiao's "Bamboo Stone Diagram"! Being able to auction such a sky-high price makes the famous artists in the contemporary painting world ashamed of themselves!
Zheng Banqiao was 20 years old to win the Xiucai, 40 years old to raise people, 4 years later to participate in the examination, the temple test to win the Jinshi, in the historical and art world, he is not a genius. Finally, in Shandong, he served as the county commander of Fan County and Wei County, and his official position was equivalent to today's "county party secretary". He is a good reader in his life, obsessed with painting, and the bamboo he paints is a must in the painting world, and his official reputation is also excellent, which is praised by the world!
Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Taihu Lake Basin in the south has always been an area with great cultural and artistic prosperity, and by the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Yangzhou area was even more so, and the famous "Yangzhou School of Painting" was produced.
Among them, eight of them are the most famous, they are Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Huang Shen, Li Kun, Wang Shishen, Luo Ping, Gao Xiang, Li Fangbin, these 8 people are rated as "Yangzhou Eight Monsters" by the world, of course, "Yangzhou Eight Monsters" so far there are two theories, there are many opinions, but they also have some common characteristics, that is, poor life, strange personality, for calligraphy or painting is extremely accomplished, its painting method or calligraphy can transcend customs, very personal charm.
Among the "Eight Monsters of Yangzhou", the most well-known one is this Zheng Banqiao, who often says in the Qu art industry:
"The beauty of Tang Bohu, the landscape of Mi Yuanzhang, the fan face of Liu Shi'an, the pair of Tie Bao, the bamboo of Zheng Banqiao, the stroke of "tiger" character in Songzhongtang"
This is the object of the literati's hand to follow the heart, Mi Yuanzhang is the Song Dynasty's Mi Fu, Liu Yong and Tie Bao are listed as one of the "Qing Four Families", are top famous products.
In this way, the bamboo of Zheng Banqiao was a must in the Qing Dynasty!
Zheng Banqiao's paintings or calligraphy, because of the great difference in aesthetics with ordinary people, are difficult for ordinary people to appreciate, and only professionally trained connoisseurs can discover their true artistic conception!
In the History of Chinese Painting, Zheng Banqiao is most praised for his vertical painting "Ink Bamboo Map", which is extremely evocative and deeply artistically artistically inspired by the artistic conception of cultural painting, which is also a realm that contemporary painters cannot reach!
The shaping of this kind of painting environment cannot be achieved simply by technique, but requires a very rich education, which is also an aspect that contemporary calligraphers lack!
Zheng Banqiao's "Ink bamboo map" is a work in one go, the branches and leaves have a changing wind god, a very otherworldly natural artistic conception, and there is no lack of distinctive style and beauty!
Painting bamboo also has the height of the realm, the predecessors painted bamboo, there is bamboo in the eyes and no bamboo in the chest, and Zheng Banqiao painting bamboo is "no bamboo in the chest, the next pen is like thunder and thunderbolts", everywhere is natural growth! This shows the superb of his bamboo painting skills!
Of course, Zheng Banqiao's inscription poem in this "Ink and Bamboo Diagram" is also a masterpiece, and its calligraphy is a unique six-and-a-half-minute book, which is unique in the Qing Dynasty.
This "Ink and Bamboo Diagram" is much higher than the "Bamboo And Stone Diagram" at auction from the perspective of posture and skill and artistic conception of expression.
Nowadays, we have carried out a 1:1 ultra-high-definition scan and reproduction of Zheng Banqiao's "Ink bamboo map" according to the size of the original work, and restored the work that is no different from the original work, and the original work is exactly the same, just like the new work.
To purchase this Zheng Banqiao "Ink bamboo map", please click below to purchase:
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