Zhang Daqian's character evaluation

Zhang Daqian is an all-round painter. His works are "all-encompassing, rich in the north and the south", integrating literati painting, literati painting, palace painting and folk art. The figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, fish and insects and animals in Chinese painting are meticulous, omnipotent and meticulous. Bold poetry, vigorous and elegant calligraphy, soft outside and rigid inside, unique style.

Zhang Daqian is the most legendary master of Chinese painting in China in the 20th century. He knows everything about painting, calligraphy, seal cutting and poetry. In his early years, he devoted himself to studying ancient calligraphy and painting, especially landscape painting. After living abroad, the style of painting combined with words, heavy color and ink painting, especially splashing ink and setting colors, created a new artistic style. His research methods are worth learning from painters who try to move from tradition to modernity.

Among Chinese painters in the 20th century, Zhang Daqian is undoubtedly one of the best, and his artistic conception is beautiful and elegant. "He is talented and educated. He is good at landscapes, figures, flowers, ladies and feathers, especially in landscape painting. He and many painters at that time undertook the responsibility of reviving the orthodoxy prevailing in the early Qing Dynasty, that is, inheriting the tradition of painters in Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, so that the orthodoxy after the revival of Qianlong became weaker and weaker. "