Xi Ganggong calligraphy and painting, good at seal engraving and sealing, is a giant painter in Zhejiang. Formerly known as Gang, the characters Tiesheng, Chunzhang, Luogong, Butterfly, Hezhu sheng, Mengquan Waishi, Mengdaoshi, etc.; lived in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, originally from Shexian County (now part of Anhui). Should not be keju, send love poems and paintings, landscapes and flowers, yi rhyme super jun. He has traveled to Japan and is famous overseas. Engraved with The names of Emperor Qin and Han, along with Ding Jing, Huang Yi, and Jiang Ren, the name of "Xiling Four Greats". Together with Chen Yuzhong, Chen Hongshou, Zhao Zhichen and Qian Song, they are collectively known as the "Eight Families of Xiling".
Xi Gang was talented and intelligent when he was young, Xi Danqing, because his family was poor and had no money to refer to the ink of the ancients, he stayed in the framed painting shop, carefully observed the mountains and rivers and forests in the famous traces, used a pen for bone methods, memorized in the heart, and copied it, so many times, until the form was forced to be xiao. Diligence can make up for the clumsiness, and finally get the right results.
Xi Gang has a very high talent in calligraphy and painting seal engraving, but his personality is open and straight, heroic and uninhibited, does not like to be noisy, and only interacts with a limited number of friends such as Chen Hongshou in his life. He also did not seek merit, despised the magnates, and finally grew old and clothed, indifferent to the examination for the imperial examination, and when the weak crown was weak, Fang should take the boy examination (the primary examination for the admission of Xiucai in the ancient imperial examination), when the Qianlong Emperor toured south to Zhejiang, and the white powder wall in the Hangzhou palace was in urgent need of drawing and decoration. Because of Xi Gang's famous painting and temperament, the prefect Wang Rui actually sent a messenger to detain him in front of the wall and ordered him to quickly draw the wall. Xi Gang was proud of his bones, not afraid of the powerful, lived under the pink wall for three days, did not move a stroke, and said in a straight face: "The head can be broken, and the painting cannot be obtained." The servant was helpless and said, "Where are you a child, you are an iron student!" "Become an elin quirk. Xi Gang's personality can be described as bold, daring not to give the emperor face, which is a strange person in the world.
Xigang Calligraphy Appreciation:
Xi Gang's "Lishu Huayan Miao sentence seven words lian" on paper Lishu Zhejiang Provincial Museum collection
Xi Gang's "Xingshu Liuyanzhai Notes Two Axes" book on paper Zhejiang Provincial Museum collection
Xi Gang's "Tanyuan on The Scrolls" on paper, Shanghai Museum Collection
Xi Gang's "Cursive Scrolls" Cursive On Paper Collection of Hubei Provincial Museum
Xi Gang's "Lishu Fu Xuan Ximing Banner" on paper Islean Anhui Provincial Museum Collection
Xi Gang's "Xingshu Records on the Fan of Calligraphy" Book on Paper Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing
Xigang landscape paintings a reward:
Xi Gang seal carving a reward:
Xi Gang seal carvings admire Ding Jing, but there is no Ding Jing's haojian, humble in the pursuit of release, partial to Xiuyi, square in the circle, the style is close to Huang Yi. The side section of the book is also very exciting, and it has the same interest as Jiang Ren. He is the author of "The Remaining Manuscript of the Embers of Winter Flower Temple" and "The Seal of the History of Mengquan".