My friend is good at drawing tigers. There are tiger paintings hanging on the walls of his house: some are rolling, some are jumping, some are roaring, some are running wildly, some are carrying cubs, and some are walking alone, with different shapes and lifelike.
Once I asked him for a painting, which was a little over two feet high and about two feet wide. There are two tigers in the picture, a male and a female. The male tiger squatted on the stone, looked up into the distance, opened his mouth and roared; The tigress lay down beside her, her feet stretched forward, looking carefree. There are three or four strange stones next to it, just like cheering for a tiger. I hung this picture on the east wall and liked it very much.
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China has a cultural tradition of worshipping tigers. I call it "tiger culture". Tiger culture has a rich and far-reaching accumulation, permeated with aesthetics, values and many other aspects. The words "tiger and tiger thrive", "dragon and tiger leap" and "tiger sitting on a dragon's plate" not only symbolize vitality and vitality, extraordinary demeanor and tolerance, but also represent a macro climate. ?
People in China love tigers, and there have always been many famous tiger painters. Ding, Xu Beihong, Zhu, Wu Shougu, He Xiangning, Fang Yi, Mu, Tang Wenxuan, Shuang Hu An, Feng Dazhong, Lv Zhongde, Ji Zefu, Meng Xiangshun, Wang Mochen, Dou Zhongliang, Zhong Jiming, Xie Chengxiang, Cai Yuxian, Long Wenhui, etc.
In ancient times, due to the limitation of conditions, you usually couldn't see the real tiger. Even if you see a real tiger, I'm afraid you don't have time to take pictures. In modern times, Zhang Shanzi's freehand brushwork tiger pushed the tiger to a peak. His tiger modeling, lines, pen and ink have considerable skill, full of sense of the times, full of modern painting language. Mr. Hong Bei said, "When you write a horse, you must learn from it. When you draw a chicken, you must learn from it." .
In order to deeply observe the life habits of tigers, several generations of famous tiger painters, such as Meng Xiangshun and Wang, have ventured into the hinterland of Daxing 'anling in Northeast China for many times to observe and sketch in the vast and desolate virgin forest where Northeast tigers haunt. Not only that, they even have a tiger, who stays with them 24 hours a day and gets in touch with them at zero distance.
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Baidu encyclopedia tiger painting