The main feature of landscape painting in the Northern Song Dynasty is to describe the natural scenery objectively and truly, which is a realistic technique. The Journey to the West in Fan Kuan is the most representative. With panoramic composition, strong brushwork and heavy pen and ink, the painter truly depicts the majestic beauty and momentum of the northern landscape.
Western Mountain Tourism Map is a kind of ancient paintings in China, which belongs to the first-class cultural relics. It was originally hidden in the Forbidden City, and now it is in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Silk book, light color painting. Specification, length 206.3 cm, width 103.3 cm.
Open the picture scroll, a towering mountain stands face to face, staring at people's eyes. As Xu Bei said: "And a hill, accounting for two-thirds of the whole area, is abrupt and staggering." The mountains are covered with shrubs and dense forests, which are magnificent and full of tenacious vitality. The rich and powerful composition of the peaks and mountains in the painting, the expression of "taking its potential far away and taking its quality near", the outline of dry ink lines and the even and heavy raindrops vividly depict the mountains.
A waterfall pours down from the mountain, feeling that "it's flying down three thousands of feet, and it's suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days". In the foreground, at the foot of the mountain, there are huge stones, looming temples, and rushing streams. At close range, the rocks are abrupt, and a group of business backpackers walk hard between the mountain roads, dotted with the breath of life. In contrast to the mountains, pack horses are so small that they arouse the viewer's awe of nature. There is a blank between the upper and lower mountains, showing the deep and empty artistic conception of the valley.
Fan Kuan used vigorous and cold brushwork to outline the outline of the mountain and the vein of stone lines, and the dignified and vigorous ink color described the majestic atmosphere of Qin Long mountains and rivers. The whole picture is magnificent and full of beauty, and it is known as "the bone of the mountain is vivid with the mountain."
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, masters of painting took Fan Kuan's paintings as a model. Li Tang in the early Southern Song Dynasty, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui later, Ni Zan and Wang Meng in the Yuan Dynasty all praised Fan Kuan's painting style. Almost all famous painters, when talking about the magical expressive force of Fan Kuan's landscape paintings, agree that "Fan Kuan's paintings never leave their seats when viewed from a distance", while Fan Kuan's paintings, when viewed from a distance, give people an immersive feeling.
What kind of painter is Fan Kuan with such a different style of painting?
Fan Kuan, also known as Chiang Kai-shek, is a centrist from China. (now Yaozhou, Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province) The Master of Northern School Landscape Painting written in the Song Dynasty.
Generous personality, generous, good wine, informal, often come to a "farewell trip" to guess that his family should not be a poor family, at least a middle-class family. He studied under Hao Jing and Li Cheng in his early years. Those who are good at painting landscapes can be creative and don't get married.
Fan Kuan later realized that we should attach importance to sketching and observing and experiencing natural mountains and rivers. He lived in Huashan and Zhong Nanshan in Shaanxi Province for a long time, built shacks in the mountains, and was obsessed with the natural landscape from morning till night, regardless of the danger of walking on the cliffs and the attack of wild animals in the mountains.
Looking at the subtle changes of clouds and clouds, and the creative conception of the scenery, the majestic momentum of the mountains and the desolate scenery of the old trees and forests are vividly expressed in the pen. The pen is vigorous and powerful, and the strokes are short and powerful. It is called raindrop mound by later generations. Painted rocks are three-dimensional, and the mountains are quaint and spectacular.
Fan Kuan's paintings were famous in the Song Dynasty. At that time, 58 of his works were collected by the imperial court, and the representative works that have been handed down to this day include a map of Xi Kui, a map of sitting alone in a stream, an architectural map of a snowy mountain, a map of a snowy forest and so on. And The Journey to the West is the most famous.
In 2004, American Life magazine ranked Fan Kuan as the 59th among the most influential 100 people in the Millennium.
My point of view: Everyone who has achieved something is either a "madman" or a "fool". Without madness and persistence in a certain job, it is difficult to make great achievements, let alone be told through the ages.
"Integrity is vast, dare to view the mountains and rivers." Do you want to be a painter? Learn from it.