"The first person in the painting circle of the Republic of China" Mr. Wu Hufan's painting works appreciation

Wu Hufan

Ming Qian, the number Qian'an, calligraphy and painting signed Lake Sail.

A master of landscape painting, in his early years, he and Pu Ru were known as "Southern Wu and Northern Pu", and later with Wu Zishen, Wu Zhiqiu, Feng Chaoran, and "Three Wu and One Feng" in the painting world. In Shanghai in the 1930s, Zhao Shuru's Kurama, Wu Hufan's landscape, Feng Chaoran's characters, wu Qiuqiu's flowers, had the reputation of "four stunts", known as the Republic of China's "four masters on the sea", one of the leading figures of Haipai calligraphy and painting.

He was born in a prominent family in Suzhou at that time, Wu Hufan's grandfather was Wu Dayong's late Qing Dynasty feudal governor, his grandfather was Shen Shuyong Qing Dynasty famous bibliophile official to the cabinet of Zhongshu, it can be said that he was a true aristocratic son, superior family conditions made him receive a good traditional cultural education from an early age, providing a solid foundation for casting his unique literary character.

landscape:

Mr. Wu Hufan is good at painting landscapes, starting from the "Four Kings", and then under the influence of his father, he immersed himself in the study of dong Qichang's calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty, traced back to the Song and Yuan dynasties, broke through the barriers of the north and south sects, and the painting style was beautiful and plump, qing and elegant, and the color was deep with smoke and clouds, and the spring stones were washed away. In particular, molten ink baking and green coloring in a furnace and smoke clouds are the most representative.

Wu Hufan landscape painting is the most distinctive, when he swings, first use a large pen to sprinkle water on the paper, after a little drying, and then use the ordinary pen dipped in light ink, slightly rendered, once framed, it looks like yunlan out of the dough, wonderful must not be square.

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