Encyclopedia of China (concise edition);
Gu Kaizhi (about 348-409) was a painter, painting theorist and poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China. Long word kang, small word tiger head. Jinling Wuxi (now Jiangsu Province) people. He once joined the army and served as a regular rider. Born in a gentry, he is versatile and skilled in poetry and prose, especially in painting. Good at figure painting, historical figures, Taoism, animals, landscapes and other themes. Painted characters advocate vivid expression, pay attention to the finishing touch, and think that "vivid depiction is in the process of covering the eyes". Pay attention to depicting physiological details, expressing characters' expressions, painting Pei Kai's image, and adding three points to his cheeks, and suddenly feel radiant. Good at using environmental description to express the interest and expression of characters. Painting Xie Kun as a cliff highlights the interest of the characters. The clothes lines he painted are made of Gu You Si Miao, and the lines are tight and continuous, such as spring silkworms spinning, spring clouds floating in the air, and running water running on the ground, which is natural and smooth. Gu Kaizhi's works are not authentic. The pictures of women's history, the pictures of Luo Shen and the pictures of women's benevolence and wisdom, which have been handed down to this day, are all copies of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Gu Kaizhi has also made outstanding achievements in painting theory. There are three painting theories today: Wei Jinsheng's Painting Praise, On Painting and Painting Yuntai Mountain. Put forward the views of image theory, viewing God by form and thinking brilliantly. It advocates that painting should show the mental state and personality characteristics of the characters, pay attention to the experience and observation of the painted objects, grasp the inner essence of the objects through image thinking, and then show the modal thinking of the characters on the basis of similarity, that is, write the spirit with form. Gu Kaizhi's painting and his theoretical achievements occupy an extremely important position in the history of China's fine arts. Gu Kaizhi wrote three volumes of Enlightenment and twenty volumes of Anthology, both of which have been lost. However, there are still some poems handed down, such as "dry rocks strive for beauty, thousands of valleys struggle for flow, vegetation covers, if clouds flourish, Xia Wei", etc., which vividly describe the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River in detail and are full of poetry and painting.
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Gu Kaizhi is known as "the sage of painting", and he has "three unique skills" in poetry, calligraphy and painting. ...
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