Famous masters of the past - Qing - Cold

Leng Ming: A famous painter of the Qing Dynasty. The character Jichen, the number of the Golden Gate painting history. A native of Jiaozhou, Shandong. Enshrined in the inner court. Jiao Bingzhen's disciple. Painting characters of the female "Jiaozhou Chronicle" volume 30 years: "Gong Danqing, wonderful color, painting characters especially a crown" for a while." He can also paint paintings of the pavilion and the landscape. The paintings are beautiful and elegant, the pen and ink are clean, the colors are beautiful, and their painting methods are also written with work belts, decorating the house utensils, and the pen is extremely delicate and vivid. He has painted "Dongge Guan Mei Tu", "Tong Yin Embroidery Map", "LuoHan Book", and has the magic of Wu Belt Dangfeng and Cao Yi out of the water. "Summer Resort Map" is one of his masterpieces. (79) Wang Jian (1598-1677) famous painter of the Qing Dynasty. Character Yuanzhao, one word round photo, number Xiangbi, also known as Xiang'an Lord. People from Taicang, Jiangsu. In the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633 AD), he was raised. Later Shi to Lianzhou Taishou, so also known as "Wang Lianzhou". Wang Shizhen's grandson. The family collection is rich in ancient and modern monuments, the ancient workmanship is very deep, and the penmanship is extraordinary. It is one of the "Six Houses of the Early Qing Dynasty". Good at landscape, Yuanfa Dong (Yuan), Ju (Ran), Jinzong Wang Meng, Huang Gongwang. The pen is sharp, the ink is thick, the trees are dense, the back is deep, the method is refreshing and ethereal, the ingenuity is rendered, and there is a length of Shen Xiong's ancient elegance. Intercropping is green and heavy color, and it can also be beautiful and harmonious. The landscape of Xinyun Forest is extremely dense. Imitation of mountain tree landscape, imitation of Zhao Danian's "Spring Scene" boneless landscape, imitation of Hongguzi color landscape, dense and strange, purely in the seal method to write the outline. Imitation Zijiu's "Autumn Wood Mountain Color Map'", "Imitation of Huang Gongwang Smoke Floating Far Away", Imitation of Shen Shitian Landscape, Imitation of Dong Yuan's "Autumn Mountain Map" Imitation of Fan Hua's Color Landscape, Imitation of Juran Landscape, Heavy Bones and LightNess. Most of his works are antiquity, faithful to famous artists, lack of originality, and have a strong retro thought and formalist painting style. His publications include "Dyeing Xiang'an Collection" and "Dyeing Xiang'an Paintings".

Leng Ming, zi Ji chen, number Kinmen painting history, Shandong Jiaoxian people. A disciple of the court painter Jiao Bingzhen, he was good at painting figures and boundary paintings, and was especially a beautiful woman. Thanks to the Western method of sketching, the work of writing, the dian Li Yanya, quite a teacher. Dedicated to the Painting Academy, Kangxi participated in the production of the volume of the "Longevity Ceremony Map" in the fifty-sixth year (1717) (the president was Wang Yuanqi). His surviving works include Kangxi Forty-two Years (1703) imitation of Qiu Ying's "Spring XiaoTu of the Han Palace", Yongzheng Iii (1725) as the axis of "Nine Si Tu", and another of his "Magu Xianshou Tu" in the Shandong Provincial Museum. This "Dedication to Life" should be made in the first month of the ninth year of Yongzheng (1731).

Regarding the year of Leng's birth and death, it is still unknown, and some sources say that he was active during the Kangxi and Yongzheng years. Consult the "Yuanmingyuan" compiled by the First Historical Archive of China, "The Internal Affairs Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, each work of the work plan and clearance file", several records of leng ming painting, a brief copy is as follows, for the death year of leng ming, it may be extended: Article 166: On the ninth day of the first month of the first month of the First Year of Qianlong (Ruyi Pavilion), the minister of internal affairs Hai Wang gave an edict: "Send the painter Leng Ming to the painter of the Cining Palace to give money and grain." Ling Yi drew a picture of the superheated river at the temple of the Yuanmingyuan, drawing one picture at each place and painting the total picture. Thanks. On February 16, the eunuch Mao Tuanjiao: "Take a picture of the size of the "No Escape Chapter", 17 inches long, 7 feet 7 inches and 5 minutes wide, and paint a picture of the general scenery at the temple of the Yuanmingyuan With a cold piece. On April 16, Yuanwai Lang Changbao passed on the message: "Leng Ming is now painting the temple of the Yuanmingyuan, and when he paints the total, He Orders Lang Shining, Tang Dai, and Shen Yuan to paint." Thanks. ”

Leng Mei dedicated the painting academy through the three emperors of Kang, Yong and Qian, and painted for the Yuanmingyuan for many years, until 1738 AD, when he was still alive and painting. Unfortunately, many of Leng Ming's meticulous works in the Yuanmingyuan were reduced to ashes in an unprecedented looting with the looting and burning of the British and French allies!

Jiao Bingzhen disciple, good at painting characters, boundary paintings, especially jingshi women, painting method Deli Western painting sketching, work with writing, embellishment of the house yi fine as boundary painting, clean brush and ink, color Shao Xiu, dian Li Yan ya, quite a teacher. From the Kangxi Dynasty to the end of The Qianlong Dynasty, the painting style of combining Chinese and Western techniques was quite popular in the academy and influenced folk art, and it was an active promoter of this technique.

The Qing court enshrined leng ming's heirloom paintings, which have undergone many vicissitudes and changes, and now the folk rarely see it again. Not long ago, one of his large-axis surviving color paintings, "Dedication to Life", appeared at an auction in Tianjin at a high price of one million yuan, and those who saw it were amazed!

"Dedication to Life" is based on the "Magu" in ancient Chinese mythology, creating a beautiful and quiet human fairy. Ge Hong's "Biography of the Immortals" says that she was a Jianchang native and cultivated in the Guyu Mountains in the southeast of Muzhou. When Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty was summoned by Wang Fangping, he descended to Cai Jingjia's house, and at the age of eighteen or nineteen, he was able to throw rice into pearls. He said that he had seen the East China Sea become a mulberry field three times, and later generations used the "vicissitudes of the sea and mulberry field" as a metaphor for the rapid changes in the world. Legend has it that on March 3, the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West, she made wine with Lingzhi on the banks of the Daizhu River to wish the Queen Mother a happy birthday. Therefore, in the old days, female shoushou people painted many statues of Magu as gifts, called "Magu Dedication".

Leng Ming's "Dedication to Life" on the vertical scroll of the heirloom silk, 122.5 cm in length and 62.5 cm in width, is brightly colored and has a good appearance. In the painting, the magu fairy is slender, tall, with high bun and kind eyebrows. Earlobe jade ring, dressed in a light green robe, the left arm holds a round belly exquisite bamboo basket, containing large blooming peonies and fairy grass wild flowers, a bunch of large and small gourds tied around the basket (or note Lingzhi immortal wine), and the green belt around the waist is also tied with four gourds and one Reishi mushroom. The two fingers of the left hand gently pinch the grains of rice, and the right palm is thrown into beads. Clothes fluttering, gods and bones fairy, Yingzhou medicine, full of loads; want to sacrifice shouya. The brushwork is fine, the color is elegant, and the shape is vivid and vivid, which can be called the representative work of Leng Ming's female painting. The inscription on the upper right side of the canvas reads: "Xinhai MengChunri, Kinmen Painting History Leng MingJing wrote." "The Second Seal of the Lower Plutonium": "Chen Leng Ming", "History of Golden Gate Painting".