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Famous Paintings of Flowers and Birds in the Ming Dynasty: Lü Ji's "Guiju Mountain Bird", "Bamboo Branch Partridge", Chen Lu's "Smoke Cage Jade Tree Diagram"

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Ming Dynasty flower and bird painting is the most prominent painting of the Ming Dynasty court painting achievements. In the past hundred years, not only famous artists have emerged, but also broken through the "courtyard body" program of the previous generation, created a new style, and formed a variety of styles and styles, which have had a great impact on the painting circles of later generations, including court painters, professional painters, and literati painters.

Famous Paintings of Flowers and Birds in the Ming Dynasty: Lü Ji's "Guiju Mountain Bird", "Bamboo Branch Partridge", Chen Lu's "Smoke Cage Jade Tree Diagram"

Guiju Mountain Bird Figure Ming Lü Ji Silk Color Length 190 x Width 106 cm Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing

The flowers and leaves in the picture are outlined and filled, and the birds are smudged with silk and hair, which belongs to the typical brush and heavy color painting method. Contrasting with the fine work with the brush, it is a work that represents the basic painting style of the painter.

Famous Paintings of Flowers and Birds in the Ming Dynasty: Lü Ji's "Guiju Mountain Bird", "Bamboo Branch Partridge", Chen Lu's "Smoke Cage Jade Tree Diagram"

Bamboo Branch Partridge Figure Ming Lü Ji Silk Color Size unknown Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing

Although Lü Ji's painting method is known for its workmanship and wealth, it can also be inked freehand. Such works integrate Lin Liang's painting methods, and the pen and ink are concise and unrestrained. "Bamboo Branch Partridge Diagram" belongs to this kind of work, the whole picture is smooth with the pen, bamboo poles and bamboo leaves are painted in one breath, the brushwork is intentional, and the air rhyme is through.

Famous Paintings of Flowers and Birds in the Ming Dynasty: Lü Ji's "Guiju Mountain Bird", "Bamboo Branch Partridge", Chen Lu's "Smoke Cage Jade Tree Diagram"

Smoke Cage Yushu Figure Ming Chen Lu Silk Color Length 137.5 x Width 65.4 cm Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing

Chen Lu, year of birth and death unknown, from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Good at painting plums, orchids, pines, bamboo, and elegant brushstrokes. The layout of this map is unique and the weather is fresh. Meilan branches are vertical and horizontal, and the old stem of the curve is written in ink straight, and then the horizontal heavy ink is more old and vigorous. The flowers are scattered between the young branches, and only with a simple double hook, the cold and cold fragrance will come to the face. A wisp of smoke covers the plum branches, adding to the elegance.

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