The style of marine painting school

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other coastal cities opened ports for trade, attracting painters from all walks of life. They took the lead in accepting reform ideas and foreign cultures, and made bold reforms and innovations in traditional Chinese painting. Their works reflect the flavor of life of the times, incorporate foreign artistic techniques and factors, set up a banner outside the "orthodoxy", and formed the "sea painting school" and "Lingnan painting school".

The main painters of "Shanghai School" are: "Four Masters of Shanghai School in Late Qing Dynasty": Xugu, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo and Pu Hua. Zhao's works are good at integrating seal script techniques into the picture, with simple and elegant style, colorful flowers and magnificent colors, which means good luck. Wu Changshuo also painted calligraphy and seal cutting. His works are full of stone flavor and calm style. In addition to flowers, he is still a figure, a landscape and a poem to express his lofty sentiments, even if the artistic conception is rich. Wu Changshuo is also famous for his Indian governance. He is the founder of Hangzhou Xiling Printing Society. Among the "four items", Ren Yi is the most famous. He is good at drawing figures, flowers and birds. His works are slightly exaggerated by Chen Hong, and his lines are firm and concise. While absorbing folk coloring techniques, the colors are bright and bright. Ren Yihao's paintings of folk stories and historical figures, such as the stories of Zhong Kui, Fu He Tu, Sanjie in the Wind, Lu Bu and Di Xin, appeal to both refined and popular tastes.

Both painting schools have the characteristics of secularization and popularization, while Lingnan painting school absorbs more elements of western painting and Japanese painting and pays more attention to realistic sketch. Compared with the marine painting school with strong inheritance, his paintings are more realistic and dynamic.

Stone painter

The combination of calligraphy and freehand brushwork is the beginning of the formalization of Chinese painting, although it also has the meaning or form of literati painting. The author has a virtual valley, painting is mainly freehand brushwork, transforming, simplifying and writing natural scenery.