He wrote Lushan Axis when he was 4 1 year old, which is Shen Zhou's masterpiece. This picture is made to celebrate the 70th birthday of his teacher Chen Kuan (Xing 'an native). With the help of the lofty and broad image of the five old peaks in Lushan Mountain, we express our admiration for our teachers. On the picture, the mountain is high, above the Five Old Peaks, and the clear spring is flowing down. At the foot of the mountain, there is a tall man standing quietly, with swift streams and floating clouds. The picture is full of space and fluency, and the ink is light. With the thick brush of Zhongfeng Xiuying, it presents a round and healthy effect. From his works, we can see Shen Zhoufeng Jian's pen and ink skills and lofty literati posture, and also see his Wen Ya feelings and grand mind in landscape paintings.
2. Wen Zhiming (1470- 1559), formerly known as the wall, was born in Hengshan, Changzhou (Wuxian, Jiangsu), and he was both an all-rounder in poetry, painting and calligraphy with Shen Zhou. At the age of 54, he went to Beijing to be an official. Three years after his resignation, he devoted his life to poetry, painting and calligraphy. According to Ming History, "He studied literature in Wu Kuan, books in Li Yingzhen and painting in China." His calligraphy is fluent and vigorous, and he is one of the "Four Masters of Wu" (Zhu Zhishan, Tang Yin, Xu Zhenqing and Wen Zhiming). The higher the prestige in his later years, the more people look for paintings, and they buy them at great expense. His paintings are far from those of Guo and Wang Meng, and they are close to those of Qi Ke and Wang Meng, so they can "learn from the past".
The painting style is meticulous in the early years, extensive in the middle years, and smooth and natural in the later years. His paintings can be described as coarse and fine. The coarse ones are mainly ink and the fine ones are mainly turquoise. He is also good at figures and flowers, and his name is contemporary. He is an important painter of Wu School. Frosted Bamboo was painted by Wen Zhiming at the age of 62. The picture depicts the stones piled up in Taihu Lake, with miscellaneous trees planted next to them and dead branches trimmed. The picture is natural, without clever decoration, which reflects the painter's quiet and peaceful mentality. His self-titled poem said: "Draw some swallows to recuperate in front of the stove, and the forest is dark with bamboo." When Zhai Ju saw that there were no horses and chariots, there was a tea man knocking at the door. "The trees in the painting mostly use dry pen, which shows the calligraphy skill, free and easy brushwork, beautiful and profound, and quite bookish.
3. Tang Yin (1470- 1523), the word Bohu, was born in Wuxian, Liu Ru. He is a professional painter developed by literati and is known as "the first romantic talent in Jiangnan". Mountains and rivers, people, flowers and birds all have outstanding achievements. Tang Yin suffered from the cold taste of the world all his life. He was depressed when he wanted to enter the official career. He was put in prison and became an official. Since then, his life has been crazy, poetry and wine have been unrestrained, and he has been wandering around famous mountains and rivers, concentrating on painting and calligraphy, and engraved himself: "A hundred years of blind books are dry axes, and all over the world."
Still living in poverty in his later years, he made a living by selling paintings. In landscape painting, he praised the painting methods of Li Cheng, Fan Kuan, Li Tang, Liu Songnian and Ma Yuan in the Song Dynasty, and in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, they were combined with each other, or embellished with beauty and elegance, or vigorous and lively. Characters are especially good at drawing graceful ladies with cool sleeves, bright moon and clear water, and lingering artistic conception. Shadow of the Curtain on the Cross, The Prostitute in Shu Meng Palace and Fujian in Chai Men are all masterpieces. The figure painting not only inherits the neat and smooth line drawing skills in the figure painting in the Song Dynasty, but also absorbs the vigorous and flexible brushwork in the Yuan Dynasty. It has the characteristics of combining rigidity with softness and giving priority to description, and is a typical representative of ladies painting in Ming Dynasty. Especially, he can express his feelings through unusual ideas. The picture of Autumn Fan depicts the sadness of a beautiful woman in her later years, which is a metaphor for the coldness of the world. The poem reads: "Qiu Lai fans, why should beauty be sentimental?" Please take a closer look at the world. Most people don't drive away the cold. "
4. My biological father Chou Ying (about 1502- 1552) was born in Taicang, and then moved to Suzhou, where he worked as a painter, with a profound artistic foundation. Dong Qichang said he was "behind Zhao Boju". He depicts traditional themes with rigorous composition, vigorous brushwork and accurate structure, portrays natural and cordial characters, and has a sense of beauty connected with the secular world. His paintings have a style of appealing to both refined and popular tastes, which contains the painting connotation of literati cultivation.
Meticulous figures include "Beautiful Bamboo Ladies" and "Atlas of People's Stories". The picture of raising bamboo depicts a beautiful woman dressed in satin, with her right hand touching her face and her left hand embracing each other, accompanied by a maid, which is exactly the image of Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty who "forgets the thin silk sleeves and leans on the sunset glow and high bamboo". Bamboo stone with straight, bamboo leaves with double hooks, oblique stone with stains. The brushwork of the picture is delicate and changeable, while the painting style is vigorous and steep, simple and profound, and the style is fresh and elegant. The landscape painting of "Wumen Four Courtyards" represents the main aspects of literati landscape in Ming Dynasty, while figure painting is beautiful. Their painting styles all reflect the aesthetic taste of social culture in the mid-Ming Dynasty. They have flying charm, exquisite brushwork, rich interest and elegant elegance, which shows the way of expressing literati's character and feelings in painting.