In a sense, ink bamboo is a specimen, a scale and a basic skill of China literati painting. From Wentong, Su Shi to Yuan Dynasty, the ink bamboo style flourished and became an independent painting discipline, which integrated philosophical meaning from the connotation and sprouted from calligraphy from the outside.
Bamboo is often used by literati to express lofty and vulgar tastes; Integrity, modesty and pure thoughts and feelings. Therefore, ink bamboo has become a synthesis of books, paintings and Taoism (philosophy), a direct portrayal of personality and character, and its meaning has become more and more abundant, and it has become a kind of painting with a long history in China.
Zheng Banqiao painted ink bamboo, mostly for freehand brushwork. In one go, the breath of life is very strong, one leaf at a time, whether it is dead bamboo, single bamboo or bamboo in the wind. Bamboo in the rain is full of wonderful changes. For example, the height of bamboo is strewn at random, and the shade is withered and glorious, which are all subtle. The painting style is beautiful, ultra-dusty and refined, giving people a unique feeling.
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Zheng Banqiao said: "Literature and painting are well thought out; Zheng Banqiao paints bamboo, but he doesn't know what to do. The so-called Weichuan thousand acres are also in the chest; Banqiao has accomplished nothing, such as lightning and thunder, and everything is angry. If not, it will cover Dahua's popularity. The way is like this, it is possible, and the Banqiao is not. It is one or two solutions. "
In fact, there is no contradiction between Banqiao's "clear thinking" and literature's "clear thinking". Zheng Banqiao paid attention to the combination of thought and technique before his creation, but this freehand brushwork is different from literary and highly realistic ink painting in technique, that is, freehand brushwork and realism, abstraction and concreteness, similarity and similarity.
What is particularly striking is that Zheng Banqiao's bamboo paintings also pay attention to the organic combination of painting and calligraphy. "It is represented by cursive vertical and long strokes." He said, "Calligraphy is wired, bamboo is wired, calligraphy has shades, bamboo has shades, books have density, and bamboo has density." Because of this, people can appreciate it from his calligraphy and painting.