Zheng Xie is good at painting orchid and bamboo.
Zheng Xie, No. Banqiao, was born in Xinghua, Jiangsu. The main representative of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" is especially good at painting orchid and bamboo. The picture uses stone as veins and alternates with orchid and bamboo. "Orchid, Bamboo and Stone" is Zheng Xielan's masterpiece among bamboo and stones.
Zheng Banqiao is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pine, chrysanthemums, etc., and he has made the most outstanding achievements in painting orchids and bamboos for more than 50 years. The method was borrowed from Xu Wei, Shi Tao, and the Eight Great Masters, and became its own method, with a sparse appearance and a vigorous style. Gong calligraphy uses Han Bafen mixed with regular cursive and calls itself Six and a Half Fen calligraphy.
Zheng Banqiao's painting art
Zheng Banqiao was born in a scholarly family. He was a scholar in the last year of Kangxi, a scholar in the tenth year of Yongzheng, a Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong, and served successively as Fan County, Shandong since the age of fifty. , Weixian County magistrate for twelve years. The idea of ??"achieving ambition and benefiting the people" led him to take measures such as "opening warehouses to provide loans" and "donating money instead of losing money" to the common people who suffered from years of famine during his official career. This aroused the dissatisfaction of corrupt officials, evil tyrants and evil gentry. Demoted. After that, he made a living by selling paintings.
Zheng Banqiao experienced ups and downs in his life, experienced ups and downs, and saw through the harshness of the world. He dared to incorporate all of this into his works.
Zheng Banqiao's poems on paintings have broken away from the traditional stereotype of simply using poems to compose paintings or painting to compose poems. Every painting he paints must be inscribed with a poem, and every inscription must be good, achieving "the image of a painting like a painting" "Poetry expresses the meaning that is difficult to paint", poetry and painting reflect each other, and infinitely expand the breadth of the picture. Zheng Banqiao's painting poems focus on real life and have profound ideological content.