Dong Shouping was born in a family of poets and calligraphers. Dong Shouping's great ancestor Dong Jitang was a famous calligrapher in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. His grandfather Dong Zhihuan was a member of the Imperial Academy of the Qing Dynasty and was famous for his poetry and calligraphy. The Dong family has a rich collection of cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, and is famous overseas. Dong Shouping was influenced by his family to love calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and he studied hard on his own. He is a well-known calligrapher in my country. Below is the appreciation of Dong Shouping's calligraphy that I compiled for you. I hope it will be useful to you!
Appreciation of Dong Shouping's calligraphy
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Dong Shouping's life
Dong Shouping was born in a family of poets and calligraphers Dong Jitang, the great ancestor of Dong Shouping, was a famous calligrapher in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. His grandfather Dong Zhihuan was a member of the Hanlin Academy of the Qing Dynasty and was famous for his poetry and calligraphy. The Dong family has a rich collection of cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, and is famous overseas. Dong Shouping was influenced by his family to love calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and he studied hard on his own. He first painted flowers and then studied landscapes. He is especially famous for his paintings of plum blossoms, bamboos and Huangshan scenery. When the calligraphy and painting came out in 1931, it became famous in Beijing and won praise from Chinese and foreign people. After 1938, he engaged in calligraphy and painting creation in Xi'an, Chengdu and other places. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked for Rongbaozhai in Beijing, engaged in editing, creation, appraisal and training of professional talents. Countless works have been selected into large-scale art exhibitions at home and abroad or published in professional newspapers and periodicals. He has been invited to visit abroad many times and hold personal exhibitions. Published include "Dong Shouping Painting Collection", "Dong Shouping Painting and Calligraphy Collection", "Painting and Calligraphy Master Dong Shouping", "Dong Shouping Talks about Art", "Rongbaozhai Painting Manual - Dong Shouping Painting Collection", etc. Representative works include "Huangshan Sea of ??Clouds", "Herringbone Waterfall", "Dadu River", "Huangshan Mountain after the Rain", "Huangshan Wind and Rain", "Morning in Erlang Mountain", "Loushanguan", "Ink Bamboo", "Ink "Plum", "Wind Bamboo", "Jinjie Facing the Wind", etc. When Deng Yingchao visited North Korea in the same year, he presented his paintings to the North Korean government. Many of his calligraphy and painting works have been spread overseas, especially in Japan and Hong Kong. In addition to the "Dong Shouping Memorial Hall" which collects his works, all major art museums in China have Dong Shouping's works.
A famous contemporary painter and calligrapher. Born into a family of poets and writers. The Dong family has a large collection of cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, and is famous overseas. Influenced by his family, Dong Shouping loved calligraphy and painting since he was a child. Dong Shouping is good at painting plums and bamboos, and his cinnabar red plums are a unique skill. When writing bamboos, his pen and ink are concise, strong and majestic, and the composition is ethereal. He uses calligraphy for it, which is simple and simple. The ink written by Song is full of life, the pen and ink are vigorous, and the complexity and simplicity are appropriate. Landscape paintings mostly use the strange peaks and old pine trees of Huangshan Mountain as their themes. They do not stick to the shapes of the peaks and rocks, but seek to unify the charm of the entire painting. They enjoy the reputation of "Dong Mei", "Shouting Bamboo" and "Huangshan Giant" in the painting circle. In addition to the Dong Shouping Memorial Hall's centralized collection of his works in China, Dong Shouping's works are also collected in major art galleries. His calligraphy art is full of personality, vigorous and vigorous, simple and unrestrained, both spiritual and physical, and bold, showing his noble spiritual realm, profound knowledge and upright and magnanimous character. His works have been exhibited at home and abroad for many times and are collected by art galleries and museums at home and abroad. Won the "Fuji Art Medal".
Analysis of Dong Shouping's works
Unique craftsmanship
It is not uncommon for famous painters to be famous for their bamboo paintings, but Dong Shouping's style is very different and unique. Wen Tong is known for his vigorousness, Gu An's prudence, Xia Zhongzhao's exuberance, Li Fangying's simplicity, Zheng Banqiao's clearness, and Shi Tao's simplicity. Although their respective styles are different in overall appearance, if you carefully infer, there are still some methods established by their predecessors. It can be found and its remains can be traced. Appreciating the bamboo in Dong Shouping's paintings, it is difficult to tell exactly its origin, but its style is distinctive and does not violate ancient methods. There is a saying in artistic creation, "Being confident", and Dong Shouping has his own unique insights into this. He believes that the beginning of creation. Looking at a piece of white paper, you have a plan in mind. This is "having a plan in mind." But when the first stroke of the pen comes down, the painter should be "unprepared", and then take advantage of the situation, let nature take its course, and not be bound by the success of the stroke. Instead, he should express what he has in mind and complete it in one go.
Therefore, it is appropriate and reasonable for the art circle to call Dong Shouping's bamboo "Shouping Bamboo".
Two meanings
The ancients called painting bamboo "writing bamboo". The word "write" contains two meanings: First, the form of brush used to draw bamboo is closest to Chinese calligraphy. Without a solid foundation of calligraphy, it is impossible to draw bamboo well. Appreciating the bamboos painted by Dong Shouping, the word "power" runs throughout and fills the entire picture. Whether it is the long bamboo pole that stands tall in the sky or the branches in the painting, they are full of power. The decisive strokes show his transcendent skill in calligraphy. Although this "Ink Bamboo Picture" belongs to the Fan Fan sketch, every stroke is so calm and solid, without any hesitation or sloppiness. Even the bamboo tips outlined in light ink are straight, strong and heroic. When I start to write, I feel like I am writing. Dong Shouping's painting of bamboo is the best interpretation of Zhao Mengfu's saying that "to write bamboo, you need to know the eight methods".
Philosophical Concepts
Dong Shouping has developed the habit of reading half a day and painting half a day since he started to be an artist in his youth. He is well-read and has profound knowledge. He once studied at Nankai University. After graduating from the Department of Economics, he studied Eastern philosophy and was good at combining the profound and profound art system of ancient China with modern expression techniques. Therefore, the layout and composition of his works are philosophical and contain profound traditional oriental philosophical concepts. He is able to organically unify all the opposing contradictions such as dryness and wetness, density, length, and shade, and display them harmoniously in a work, ultimately achieving the ideal state of the unity of nature and man. The process of painting bamboo is a process of how to harmoniously unify concrete beauty and abstract beauty. It is also a process of integrating the artist himself with the bamboo he is painting. People are bamboo, and bamboo is people. It is necessary to paint bamboo and transform bamboo into people. This simple philosophical thought and aesthetic concept have become the distinctive features of Dong Shouping's works. Collected by foreign art galleries and museums. Won the "Fuji Art Medal".
Personal Charm
Mr. Dong Shouping’s charm lies in his noble personality. He is indifferent to fame and wealth, cleans himself and helps others. This is a habit Dong Shouping has developed since he was a child. In 1923, when Mr. Dong was studying at the Beijing Esperanto School, he planned to go back to Shanxi to visit his relatives during the summer vacation. However, he met a classmate from Yenching University who was unable to return to his hometown in Sichuan to visit his relatives because he had no travel expenses, so he decided to give up and go home to visit his relatives. plan. During his more than 60 years of life, he participated in various voluntary exhibitions, pen clubs, charity, and disaster relief activities, and donated countless calligraphy and paintings. The greatest thing is his pure patriotism. In 1941, he donated the proceeds from the Sichuan Art Exhibition to support the Anti-Japanese War. In his later years, Chen Binfan, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, often asked him to paint paintings in order to promote tea culture. Most of them were taken away in a hurry before the ink was dry. Dong Shouping was not only not annoyed, but also happy. He greatly praised Chen's fickle style. In 1994, a rare flood occurred in South China. Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" and six other organizations launched a disaster relief charity sale of famous paintings and calligraphy. After Dong Shouping heard about it, he painted a four-foot ink bamboo "Wind and Rain Strong Bamboo" to donate to the charity sale. At that event, 207 calligraphers, painters, and sculptors donated 200 works, and the total charity sale amount was HK$2.409 million. Dong Shouping's "Wind and Rain Bamboo" was donated by the daughter of Bao Yugang, chairman of Shenghua Services Co., Ltd. Ms. Su Baoqing subscribed for HK$290,000, setting a record for the charity sale.
Mr. Dong has always loved and cared about the development of cultural undertakings in his hometown. As early as the 1950s and 1960s, he twice donated dozens of ancient precious calligraphy and paintings passed down from his ancestors to the Shanxi Provincial Museum. Among them are the album pages of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ink-silk version "Red Golden Bamboo" painted by the Korean painter Li Tanyin during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and the "Picture of Calligraphy on the Knees" and "Picture of Drinking in the Han Dynasty" painted by the Qing Dynasty painter for his great ancestor Dong Jitang, etc. . In 1983, he once again donated 200 exquisite paintings and calligraphy works to his hometown. In order to commemorate Dong Shouping's artistic achievements, his hometown built an art museum for the long-term collection and exhibition of Dong Shouping's works in Jinci Park, a scenic spot on the outskirts of Taiyuan City, with the vigorous cooperation of the relevant departments of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province and Japanese friends. This art museum is located in the Jinci Museum with a long history, east of Jinxi Academy, and the building covers an area of ??1,400 square meters.
Dong Shouping wrote in the "Donation Letter of Art and Calligraphy Works": "My descendants and relatives are not allowed to ask for, borrow or borrow under any excuse; my descendants and relatives are not allowed to participate in the management of "Dong Shouping Art Museum"." These words fully demonstrate Dong Shouping's high integrity and integrity. He is one of the few calligraphy and painting masters with both virtue and art in modern China. Even under the impact of the market economy, he still lives a clean life and lives his life perfectly.
Dong Shouping's artistic achievements
Mr. Dong Shouping has comprehensive techniques and profound cultivation. He is not only a calligraphy and painting artist, but also a well-deserved philosopher and esthetician. He is worthy of being a monument in the history of Chinese calligraphy and painting.
He worked hard in calligraphy and painting during decades of vicissitudes of life, leaving behind thousands of historical masterpieces that were always graceful, tranquil and clear-cut. His painting style is vigorous and simple, with precise layout, fresh and elegant. He takes nature as his teacher without violating ancient laws. He has outstanding personal innovation in style. His paintings come from nature, starting from sketching, with lively pen and ink, and a high degree of artistic generalization. He seeks not only physical resemblance, but also spiritual resemblance, and more importantly, expresses the spirit of the object. The paintings of cinnabar and red plums are a masterpiece; the paintings of ink and bamboo are graceful and graceful, concise and majestic, and the compositions are ethereal and unique; the landscapes painted are even more popular, and most of them are based on the old pines at the strange peaks of Huangshan Mountain. Unified; the written ink is full of life, the pen and ink are vigorous, and the complexity and simplicity are appropriate. His works enjoy the reputation of "Dong Mei", "Shouting Bamboo" and "Huangshan Giant" in the painting circle. They embody the harmonious unity of philosophy and aesthetics, and perfectly represent the essence of the unity of nature and man in literati paintings. They not only It has the natural artistic conception of poetry and painting, and is also full of a modest and mellow scholarly temperament and Confucian style. It shows his noble spiritual realm, profound knowledge and upright and open-minded character.