When collecting paintings and calligraphy, the first thing you encounter is how to identify the authenticity and how to appreciate the works. The first step in collecting calligraphy and painting is to know how to appreciate calligraphy and painting; the word appreciation includes identification and appreciation. Two meanings. To collect famous calligraphy and paintings, you must do the following "five things" to improve your eyesight. By looking at more authentic works of famous artists, you can understand the characteristics of the painter's use of paper, ink, color, brushwork, seals, and signatures in various periods such as the learning period, maturity period, peak period, and decline period.

To improve your ability to distinguish authenticity from falsehood, you need to know more about the methods of forgers. The traditional forms of counterfeiting mainly include facsimiles, copies, forged copies, imitations, fake paintings, authentic postscripts, modifications and additions, etc. Modern counterfeiting has introduced high-tech means. Therefore, people who learn appraisals must keep up with the development of the market, because counterfeiters are also "advancing with the times." The artistic style of calligraphers and painters. The brushwork habits formed by a calligrapher and painter over many years can always be seen in the trajectory and style characteristics of his brushwork.

So you must be familiar with the art of the major famous calligraphers and painters, their origins of teaching, the realm of their works, their creative brushwork, the use of ink and color, etc., so that even though some counterfeit products are very similar, you can still see the flaws if you look closely. . Therefore, understanding and mastering the artistic styles and characteristics of calligraphy and painting masters will help distinguish authenticity. The content of the screen representation. In different historical periods, people have different aesthetic standards. For example, in terms of figure painting, ladies in the Tang Dynasty were mostly plump, while ladies in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were mostly weak, elegant and delicate.

In addition, the clothing, hairstyle, furnishings, and utensil styles are also obviously different. If a painting is signed in the Yuan Dynasty, but the clothes of the characters are only in the Ming Dynasty, then the painting must be a fake. . Therefore, being familiar with the costumes, utensils and other knowledge of each era is also very beneficial for identifying ancient calligraphy and paintings.