Zhao Zhiqian's flower drawings are still more interesting and unique, and the painting techniques are relatively different at that time.
Just like modern creative calligraphy, Zhao Zhiqian was not valued at that time, but the charm of his works was more and more valued.
This is related to the environment of his entire painting and the focus of painting embodied in his subsequent paintings. Zhao Zhiqian's flower paintings give people the best feeling that the pen and ink are smooth and colorful, there are some strict but lively, the more you look at it, the more you like it, the more you see it, the richer it is.
First of all, look at his works, the composition is very chic, giving people the feeling that even if he paints thousands of flowers, there is also his own composition style, not complicated and very low-key, there is no sense of declaring the army to seize the lord, but people can't see it.
In addition, the works he painted belonged to a kind of splash ink, and the splash of ink with small details was different from some other painting masters in the Qing Dynasty at that time. But this kind of floral-level splashed ink painting does not make the image of the work lose its sense of reality.
On the contrary, like Zhang Daqian's work, the small technique of splashing ink is used, which gives the work a sense of realism of oil painting. This is also the reason why some people describe Zhao Zhiqian's works as comparable to the works of Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi.
The techniques are similar, and the details of the painting are also very good at using red, green and black colors, especially in the pursuit of color contrast, Zhao Zhiqian is definitely a master. A large number of flowers, the elegant style is quite interesting, especially the ink color cooperation is also to achieve the effect of elegant and customary appreciation.
Of course, there are also some people who complain about Zhao Zhiqian's pen and ink level, describing the composition as very good, but there are also some chaos. Especially in the early years of Zhao Zhiqian's works, the pen and ink were not old enough, especially the slightly feminine feeling, which lost a kind of wind and bone of literati painting at that time.
But in fact, we have a common feeling, that is, we are used to some traditional brush and ink paintings in ancient times, and then look at some of Zhao Zhiqian's colorful works, I feel that his artistic conception has still been achieved, and these flower works are good works.
The evaluation of the quality of the work is not only from the details of the work, but also depends on the background of the entire work. In Zhao Zhiqian's era, he must have been under too much pressure from public opinion to paint such flowers, but he could boldly present this type of flowers, beautiful enough, rich enough, and it was a very good work.