The Historical Position of Xu Wei's Ink Grape

Xu Wei's Grape-Portuguese Map is a grape map written in pure ink, which can be painted and dyed at will, no matter what temperament. The vines droop. Write with ink splashed with water.

Italian method, stippling grape branches and leaves, ink and wash. The crystal clear feeling of grape beads is dripping and hearty. It can be regarded as a typical tendency of splashing water in painting. Paintings are not formal, but only slightly get their meaning, focusing on sending happiness and mourning. This painting combines ink grapes with the author's life experience. Wei Xu

I wrote a poem on the painting: "Half-life has become an Weng, and self-study is whistling in the evening breeze. The pearls at the bottom of the pen have nowhere to sell, but they are thrown into wild vines. " It can be seen that this painting is a work after the age of 50, which expresses a kind of helpless resentment and struggle against hard-earned ambition with pen and ink. In Xu Wei's works, painting is no longer a description of objective objects, but a means to express subjective feelings. He is also good at cursive painting, which dances like a cursive essay. Incisively and vividly, poetry, calligraphy and painting can be freely filled in the picture.

The combination of points. Compared with the sloppy brushwork of Yuan Dynasty painters, the messy clothes in his paintings have a sense of wild vitality. As he himself said, "There is a god in your hand" and "You don't want to look like a rhyme for survival". This picture was funded by "Tianchi" and "Xiangguanzhai" Zhu.

It can also be said that it is the most distinctive and important work in freehand brushwork.