A major feature of Xu Wei's painting is his ability to express emotions through the use of objects. Xu Wei's paintings, poems, and calligraphy are all in the same style, full of interesting stories, unique artistic conception, and extremely powerful. Another major characteristic of Xu Wei's painting is that he dares to innovate and become his own school. In the Ming Dynasty, many factions were divided due to the influence of different people. Influenced by Chen Baiyang, Xu Wei used his own talents to innovate many painting techniques and founded the Ivy Painting School with freehand ink painting.
Each of Xu Wei's paintings seems simple and unserious, but in fact, each of his works is a microcosm of his life, and is made with his blood and sweat. Completed. For example: Xu Wei's "Ink Grapes" is a seemingly ordinary and simple painting with nothing special about it. However, if you look closely and look at Xu Wei's poem on the painting, you can see the clues. Let people see the emotions that his paintings want to express.