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The birds on the trees are paired, and under the pen of successive Chinese painters, painters have expressed the meaning and blessing of good luck by creating various pairs of images.
Tang and Wei Yan,"Double Riding Diagram", silk, 3 l cm in length, 44.5 cm in width. Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, China.
"Double Riding Diagram" is the only authentic relic of the Tang Dynasty painter Wei Yan, and the picture shows the two people riding a horse each and going crazy. The center of gravity of the whole picture is pressed on the lower right corner, and the upper left is blank, without a stroke, which makes us naturally think that it is a vast wilderness where ren lie horses gallop.
Song, Cui Bai ,Double Happiness Diagram, Vertical Axis, Silk, Pale Color, Vertical 193. 7 cm, width 103. 4 cm, national palace museum, Taipei, China.
This picture depicts autumn wild scenery, grass trees and slope stones, and the arrangement is vivid, while the autumn wind is swaying with bamboo trees, the mountains and grasses are beautiful, and the wind is very strong. The whole picture is poetic and rich, sound and color, and it can really be called a "West Wind Ode". And the essence of the body, the pen gesture wants to move, just as Huang Ting insisted that Cui Baizhi's painting is a "theft machine", which is natural and wild, and the occasional pen is ingenious.
Song, Zhao Tuo, "Drawing Page of Two Birds in Lamei", 25.8 cm in length and 26.1 cm in width, Sichuan Provincial Museum.
This painting depicts the overlapping growth of Cypress and Plum in a delicate brushwork, a pair of on the plum branches look at each other and sing, and white plums dot each other, and spring is slightly exposed. The eyes of the are painted with raw paint dots, and they are radiant.
Song, Ma Yuan "Snow Beach Double Heron Diagram" silk, light color, length: 60 cm, width: 38 cm. Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The picture is set against a snow background, with branches with snow sticking out from the left side, bending down and then turning to the upper right to elongate, with a variety of horizontal twists and turns. The mountain stones on the left and lower parts are drawn with a large axe with a watery ink pen to draw a square and angular "corner". The whole picture shows the cold of the snowy day, a tranquility, and the two throbbing birds on the branches make it seem quiet and moving, adding vitality.
Song, Zhang Mao, "Double Mandarin Duck Diagram", silk, color, length 24.4cm, horizontal 18.3cm.
A clump of reed grass peeks into the picture, the branches and leaves are sparse, and the leaves are left with residual snow. A pair of Mandarin ducks broke through the water and swam toward the reeds. One partridge perched lightly on a reed, echoing the other swooping down. The large blank space in the middle and upper part of the picture is reminiscent of the vast smoke waves of the vast waters, and the composition is quite small and wonderful.
Song, Liang Kai, "Autumn Willow Double Crow Diagram", fan, silk, ink pen, length 24.7cm, horizontal 25.7cm.
Painting a broken dead willow with thirsty pen scorched ink, three or two branches soaring upwards and floating down, abruptly dividing the entire fan page into two, the composition is bold, and it is won by surprise. The thin clouds and full moon stained by the faint ink in a large blank space add a bit of mystery to the Empty Valley Spring Mountain. The two mountain birds of the rising moon soared and chirped, breaking the silence of the night sky, and although the old willow was thin, the branches were still tough, so that the viewer could feel the pulsation of natural life.
Yuan, Ke Jiusi,"Double Bamboo Diagram", on paper, ink, 86 cm in length and 44 cm in width, now in the Shanghai Museum.
On the screen, two bamboo trees protrude from the left side, all the way to the oblique, with different postures. Bamboo knots are real with virtuality, bamboo is strong, bamboo branches have a full of elastic tension, bamboo leaves are virtual and real, dense and dense, young shoots grow between bamboo knots, live and interesting.
Yuan, Zhao Mengfu, "Two Sheep Diagram", roll of ink on paper, length 25. 2 cm, width 48. 4 cm. It is in the collection of the Freer Museum of Art, USA.
The picture shows a sheep eating grass with its head bowed, and a sheep looking up, without a background around it. The goat on the right has its mouth wide open, its tail upturned, its body to the right and its head to the left, the back line is naturally curved, and the wool is soft and straight, depicting it with fine workmanship. The sheep on the left stands with its head held high, its body facing left, and the hair on the right side of its head is curly and short. The whole picture is drawn purely in ink, but it is colorful. The composition is empty, which should be influenced by the Tang and Song families. This painting is the only painting of Zhao Mengfu besides horses that depicts a walking beast.
Ming, Zhu Zhanji, "Two Dogs", album, paper, ink, light color, vertical 26. 2 cm, width 34. 6 cm. (US) Collection of the Sacropolis Museum.
In this picture, the orchids are flowing, the two dogs are walking leisurely, and the god-shaped Bishaw is vivid and realistic. The painting dog is cleverly combined with the boneless method and the hook method. Make good use of the light ink thirst pen to express the texture of the fur, and use the line to hook the head and claw to produce a sense of virtual reality.
Ming, Bian Jingzhao "Double Crane Diagram", vertical axis, silk, color, length 180 cm, width 118 cm. Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.
In this picture, there are two white cranes on the slope of the stream, one with its beak hanging down to forage, and the other turning to look back and sort out the feathers, with different moods and leisurely. Three old bamboo trees stand tall among the cranes, small bamboo overgrown, the environment is quiet and clean, which further sets off the noble temperament of the crane. The composition is sparse, the pen is delicate but not stagnant, the color is rich and not feminine; the crane feathers are outlined with white powder fine pen, which is quite textured. Write the neck and tail feathers in fine details, which is extremely neat and meticulous. The old bamboo is filled with a center hook; the shallows in the distance are faintly visible with light ink. The brushwork is simple and the style is thick, similar to the Southern Song Dynasty courtyard body painting method, which is the representative work of Bian Jingzhao.
Ming, Lü Ji "Durian Flower Double Warbler Diagram", silk, color, length 120.4, width 40.2 cm. Collection of Nanjing Museum.
Write a branch of the durian tree, the flowers bloom, and for a while the yellow oriole perchs on the branch, and the song is not self-conscious. The demeanor is lively, with double hooks as lines and heavy color depictions, which is the typical style of courtyard body painting in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. In the middle left of the painting is the ink book "Lü Ji".
Ming, Wang Qian, "Double Eagle Diagram", vertical axis, silk, ink pen, length 172 cm, width 107 cm. Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.
In this picture, the cliff is steep, half of the waist has a stone convexity, two eagles stand on it, the dead wood outside the stone is growing, the bamboo grass is hanging upside down, and it is a solemn atmosphere. Cliffs and rocks are scribbled with ink, and dead wood is brushed with flying white brushes, writing about the tendency of its twists and turns. Double eagles do not use wire hooks, directly written in boneless, the change in the shade of ink color is a good display of the different textures of double eagle feathers and fluff. The whole work has the power of the dragon flying phoenix dance, the stroke of the book crazy grass, the momentum is grand, and it can be called a masterpiece.
Ming, Wang Zhongzhong,"Double Cat Ammonite Diagram", vertical axis, paper, color, length 133 cm, width 32.5 cm. Collection of Shanghai Museum.
It depicts two cats frolicking in the meadow under the lake's stone chrysanthemums. The lake stone is hooked with a dry pen and the ink is smudged; the chrysanthemum is written in the method of hooking flowers and dotting leaves. Double cat uses a unique pen, with a thin pen to write out the outline, claws, face, with a dry pen slightly colored, rough and elegant, but there is a sense of fun, and the background contrast is clear.
Ming, Hu Cong, "Liu Yin Double Juntu", silk, color, length 101.2cm, horizontal 50.5cm. Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Depicting the state of two horses in the shade of the willow, the image is vivid and the look is forced; a peach blossom protrudes obliquely next to the two willow trees, so that the lake stone flowers and bamboos cover each other, a spring color of the lake. The whole picture is delicately depicted, with a neat brush and profound skill, inheriting the style of body painting in the Southern Song Dynasty. The upper right paragraph is signed: "Written by Naobu Yingdian Donggao Hu Cong." ”
Qing, Yu Yuan, "Durian Double Oriole Diagram", vertical axis, silk, color, 125.9 cm, width 43.9 cm. Collection of Nanjing Museum.
On the side of the bluestone in the painting, red, white and pink hollyhocks are blooming, and on the pomegranate tree full of red flowers, two yellow orioles are on it. A branch of begonias came out of nowhere, and the flowers were like piles of snow. This painting is extremely meticulous and exquisite with the pen, and the flowers and birds are carefully painted with the pen, and the colors are beautiful and beautiful.
Qing, Ma Yuanyi", "Double Fish Map", album and color on paper, 29 cm in length and 23.5 cm in width, collected by Changshu Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee.
This figure depicts willow branches running through the gills of the fish in ink. The technique is exaggerated, deliberately stretching the gills of the fish open, causing either the fish's eyes to go up, or the feeling of two sides, the fun is timeless. A fish hanging below paints gills and belly, flat and full, mouth-watering. The author grabbed the fish and its tail and struggled, and jumped a lively fish onto the paper. The background is not a stroke of ink, it is both ethereal and ethereal, and it is like a fish hanging on the wall, as if seeing the real world. The willow branches are sprinkled with thick ink, uninhibited, elegant and flowing, and the willow leaves are sparse. The body of the fish is rendered in light ink, thick ink spots, and hua moisturizes the luster.
Qing, Lang Shining's "Liuyin Double Juntu", a color painting on silk, 62 cm in length and 115.1 cm in width, collected by Zhenjiang Museum.
There are two horses in the picture, one standing and one lying down, an old willow tree, obliquely in the background, the horses and trees are painted with light and dark and bumps, emphasizing the texture and three-dimensional sense of the object. It should have been done by Lang Shining alone, without the participation of Chinese painters.
Qing, Yu Zhiding "Double Ying Tu", vertical axis, silk, color, length 136 cm, width 56 cm. Collection of Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University.
This figure depicts two fairies in heavy color. The characters in the figure are mostly drawn with iron lines, which are thin and powerful. The details are portrayed very finely, the color is calm and clear, and there is no sense of heaviness. The brushwork is delicate and the characters come to life.
Qing, Yuan Yao,"Snow Banana Double Crane Diagram", vertical axis, silk, color, length 160 cm, width 95 cm. Collection of Guangdong Provincial Museum.
This picture uses snow plantains to set off the double cranes, and uses ink to set off the shores of the lake. Snowy, green bananas, with a large stroke of the pen; double crane-shaped gods, elegant and comfortable interest, compared with Yuan Yao's common landscape and boundary paintings, it is unique, active and interesting.
Qing, Cold Piece "Wutong Double Rabbit Diagram", vertical axis silk, colorless, length 176.2 cm, width 95 cm, Beijing Palace Museum collection.
In the painting, two sycamore trees are painted, and a osmanthus flower is obliquely produced in the stone crack. Wild chrysanthemums are all over the ground, and in the soft grass, two white rabbits play with each other. Seems to be made for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The shape of the double rabbit is accurate, the image is vivid and vivid, and the fur is smooth and textured. The rabbit eyes are reflected with white dots, and the eyes appear crystal clear. The mountain stone is written squarely with a folding pen, hard and steep. The composition is dense and elegant, the pen is delicate and delicate and pays attention to the texture, and the color is harmonious and colorful and contrasting, which is obviously influenced by Western painting techniques.
Qing, Huang Shen, "Double Cat Diagram", on paper, color, length 136.8 cm, width 64 cm, Guangdong Provincial Museum collection.
Qing, Yan Yue,"Peach Blossom Double Bird Diagram", vertical axis, silk, color, length 55 cm, width 41 cm. Collection of Nanjing Museum.
The branches of the peach tree are coiled and drooping, the two birds are clinging to each other on the branches, and several grass flowers stretch up obliquely to correspond to the peach branches. With the pen holder bracket, with light ink to hook the peach blossom at will, with pink and white in a few places to dye, the peach blossom snow white crystal state is depicted, the grass flower with dry pen freehand, just right to show the petals of the tendons. The two birds are vivid and accurate in shape. The composition is fresh and elegant.
Qing, Wang Li," "Diagram of Two Chickens Under the Flowers", vertical axis, paper, ink, light color, length 147.7 cm, width 39.5 cm. (Japanese) Private collection.
This figure claims to be a Ming dynasty, and it is more than one's own intention. Its stones are mixed with water and ink, written while splashing, and divided into yin and yang to the back, which are influenced by Western watercolor paintings; and the grass and moss dots on the stone that slope out of the stone roots are painted with scorched ink and thirsty ink, and the branches above are mixed with ochre and ink, and the pen is fast, and the flowers and leaves are carefully marked with small strokes. It depicts two white chickens in detail, lined with layers of hooks, and the form is vivid and ready to come out, which can be called exquisite.
Qing, Liu Yanchong, "Peach Willow Double Swallow Diagram", vertical axis, paper, ink, length 136.5 cm, width 31.8 cm. Collection of Shanghai Museum.
The painting is based on willows, peaches and double swallows, and depicts the scenery of peach red willows and green in spring. The willow dried peach branches in the painting are written in ink and thick brushes. Peach blossoms take no bone method light ink smudge. The center is used to depict the willow leaves, the ink color is thick and light, dry and wet complement each other, and the pen seems to be chaotic and non-chaotic, as if it is broken, and the swaying willow fluttering and flying style is vividly expressed. The second swallow in the picture, one moving and one quiet, one up and one down, makes the picture ethereal and faint, and has a dynamic charm.