What are the characteristics of Chen Hongshou's calligraphy?

Chen Hongshou is famous for its mountains and rivers, especially for his meticulous figures, and his calligraphy is prosperous. Although Chen Hongshou is not famous for his calligraphy, he has made great achievements in the art of calligraphy. Writing strictly follows the method of using a pen from the center. He knows the mystery of writing with his palm up and his wrist flat.

Ordinary readers don't find Chen Laolian's works beautiful. On the contrary, they will think that his modeling ability is poor and he is deformed for the sake of deformation. In fact, their views are not unreasonable. From his paintings, we can see that he doesn't pay much attention to the natural structure of form and the accuracy of specific proportions. But he pays attention to grasping the emotion of the object, and uses the object to convey the contradictory relationship between his feelings for the object and his ideals.

The modeling in Chen Laolian's paintings is exaggerated and changeable, with rich and quaint decoration and profound expression. For example, his illustrations of The West Chamber enrich the anti-feudal theme of the original work with vivid and delicate artistic techniques. Cui Yingying's image is correct and beautiful, and her complicated and changeable expression reveals her inner contradictions and hesitation. Among them, in "A Glance at Jane", Cui Yingying on the screen is absorbed in reading Zhang Sheng's love letter brought by the matchmaker, staring down at the writing paper, immersed in the focused expression of forgetting everything in love, and holding the writing paper with his hands shaking with excitement, all of which show Cui Yingying's extremely happy and complicated mood of pretending as if nothing had happened.

Ming died in yunmen temple and became a monk, then returned to the secular world, making a living by selling paintings. There are different opinions about the cause of death. He was good at painting all his life, especially figure painting. He is as famous as Shuntian Cui Zizhong and is known as "South Cui". People say that "there will be no such pen and ink for the next 300 years." After Chen Hongshou's death, his painting skills were inherited by later generations, and he was called a great master. His masterpieces, Nine Songs, The West Chamber, The Water Margin, Bo Gu Leaves, etc. have been handed down from generation to generation, and his poems are excellent, including The Collection of Baoluntang.