Fan painting is a traditional art with a long history in China. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Tuan Fan painting was widely popular. After the Ming Dynasty, folding fan painting became more and more popular. Scholars who are good at this are as bright as stars. Among them, there are many masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, which have become an important part of China's cultural and artistic treasure house.
The folding fan is fan-shaped, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. When using a pen, the painter must consider arranging the picture in this specific space, thinking skillfully and expressing the technique. Only in this way can we be original, turn the pen at will, turn the limited into the infinite, and create a charming image and artistic conception.
The real folding fan calligraphy and painting is the big folding fan collected by Zhu Zhanji Xuande, Emperor Xuande of Ming Dynasty in the Palace Museum, and the Shu Ting fishing boat pictures collected by Xie Jin and Xuande of Yongle in Ming Dynasty in Shanghai Museum are the earliest. At that time, Suzhou's economy was prosperous, but the influence of "courtyard painting" (palace painting) was gradually declining, and "Zhejiang School" also entered the last stream, and "Wumen School" took its place. Headed by Shen Zhou, followed by Wen Zhiming, together with Tang Yin and Chou Ying, they are called "Four Wumen". They have comprehensive skills and a wide range of subjects. Chenghua to Jiajing in Ming Dynasty was the most active period in wu school, and it was also the prosperous period of calligraphy art in Ming Dynasty. For example, Wen Zhiming's Painting and Calligraphy Fan, and in Qing Dynasty, Wen Zhiming's Painting and Calligraphy Fan was published. Wu Rongguang said in the title, "By the Ming Dynasty, Tang, Shen, Wen and Qiu started painting and calligraphy, which became the style of Wu's painting and calligraphy." After that, the folding fan of calligraphy and painting flourished, and celebrities, famous schools and literati were good at folding fans, which became a unique form of calligraphy and painting since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Folding fan is a fan-shaped fan with its unique shape-an arc and a graph of the radius of two circles passing through the two endpoints of this arc. How many painters have been cheated.
Clever composition, when the fan is unfolded, it feels like it is not painted on a half-ring fan, but on a flat rectangular banner. Fan painting and calligraphy can better reflect the artistic essence of every painter.