The masterpiece Ten Faces appeared in the Ming Dynasty. How to evaluate this masterpiece?

Recently, the masterpiece of Ming Dynasty painting and calligraphy "Ten Faces of Lingbi" finally appeared. This picture, painted by Wu Bin, a painter in the late Ming Dynasty, immediately attracted extensive attention in academic circles. As a representative work with avant-garde and innovative characteristics of Paintings of Ming Dynasty, this painting shows the morphological structure of three-dimensional stone mountain to the greatest extent through its role in ancient graphic painting. It is precisely because of this transcendental painting concept and form that this painting has become one of the most respected and legendary peak paintings in the Ming Dynasty.

In order to have a deeper and more detailed understanding of this important painting and its cultural influence in the past century, the Poly Art Museum, which exhibited this painting, also held an exhibition in Beijing at the end of September? Wu Bin Symposium on "Ten Aspects of Spirit"? . ?

Wu Bin, the creator of this painting, was a court painter in the late Ming dynasty and a figure in the Ming dynasty? Abnormal painting style? And then what? Reviving the classic landscape painting style of the Northern Song Dynasty? One of the main advocates and leaders, praised by people at that time? Painting immortals? . This painting "Ten Ghosts' Faces" is considered as one of the works that Wu Bin gave to his friends.

The ten aspects of Lingbi Atlas depict the strange stones collected by friends in Wu Bin. It is said that the author's friend got a national Lingbi stone at that time. Lingbi stone was listed as the first stone in China's first monograph on stones, Yunlin Stone Spectrum, and how to appreciate these famous stones was put forward. Wen Zhenheng's Historical Records also rated Lingbi Stone as the crown of strange stones. This shows the beauty and rarity of Lingbi stone. For this reason, Wu Bin began to paint these strange stones in various forms. ?

The ten paintings in the scroll are exactly the gestures that the painter sees from ten different angles, hence the name of the scroll.

The picture scroll of Ten Faces of Lingbi is 55.5cm high and 1 1.5m long, with detailed contents. The picture scroll not only depicts the true shape of the stone, but also has the artistic conception and blank feeling in China traditional painting.