Xu Wei's paintings are novel and peculiar, breaking the boundaries between flower-and-bird paintings, landscape paintings and figure paintings. The freehand brushwork of flower-and-bird painting is bold and unrestrained, and it is a sign of the maturity of freehand brushwork. Together with Chen Chun, they are also called "Ivy" and "Poplar". Xu Wei pointed out in Xie Yuanming's Volume Zhengge Gongdan: ... Painting is sick, not in the lightness and weight of ink, but in the vividness and unreality. "He had a great influence on Badashanren and Yangzhou Baguai in Qing Dynasty. For example, Zheng Xie calls himself "a running dog under the Ivy League". Qi Baishi, a modern painter, once said: "The painting of the green vine and snow can be horizontal or vertical, which I am extremely convinced. I hate that I didn't live to be 200 years old, grinding ink and sorting paper for you. No, it's right outside the door. If you are hungry and don't go, something will happen. " Wu Changshuo said: "The sage in the painting of the green vine is better than Lu Gong in calligraphy."
Freehand brushwork, in the Ming Dynasty in China (1368- 1644), art was in a special stage of learning from the ancients and colliding with innovation. Ink freehand brushwork has developed rapidly, and the splash-ink freehand brushwork represented by Xu Wei is very popular. Many famous artists have appeared, and their skills are constantly updated. With his unique talent, Xu Wei became the most accomplished master of freehand brushwork at that time. His freehand ink-and-wash flower-and-bird paintings are bold and unrestrained, informal, concise, with more ink and less splash, less color, distinct layers, and the reality and reality are vivid. He also integrated vigorous brushwork into his paintings, which brought out the best in each other and gave people rich imagination.
Between similarity and dissimilarity, Xu Wei's freehand brushwork of flowers and birds is unique. His flower-and-bird paintings are not influenced by different schools, and they are bold and creative. His freehand brushwork, whether flowers or flowers and birds, is a painting, and everything is between similarity and dissimilarity. For the flowers and trees of the four seasons in the works, the painter uses various forms of pen and ink such as hook, dot, splash and orchid to depict graceful peony, beautiful crape myrtle, sparse bamboo, aloof frost chrysanthemum and beautiful cold plum charm, stretching nine feet and five feet respectively. His ink grapes, with strings of fruits hanging upside down, are fresh and tender and vivid. The lush leaves are made of large pieces of ink and wash, and the style is sparse and elegant, which represents the style of Xu Wei's freehand flowers. The movement track is rich, and the strokes are different in light and shade, brush strokes, size, dryness and wetness, and density. Mo Yun has improvisation and non-repetition, which shows the strongest abstract expressionism in China's paintings. This is not a general description of the object, but an artistic process, which makes it contain some internal temperament and spirit, and then makes the viewer feel immersive. The pumpkins and chrysanthemums in Xu Wei's paintings, in one go, drive away ink like clouds, with great momentum, and at the same time control the pen and ink properly, with great changes in light and shade, density and dryness. In ink painting, there are both randomly infiltrated ink halos and properly controlled shades.
There are pictures in the book and books in the picture. Xu Wei is a calligrapher. In painting, he integrated his calligraphy skills and brushwork into his paintings, which made people feel that his splash-ink freehand brushwork was simply a kind of bold and vigorous calligraphy. Xu Wei's calligraphy attainments are very high, and the ups and downs of brushwork have contributed to the ingenious changes in painting art, such as painting Mo Lian and grapes, which is unrestrained and difficult to achieve without a deep calligraphy foundation. Xu Wei's calligraphy and painting methods are extremely skillful and profound, and his inscriptions are like splashing ink and freehand brushwork, which is bold and vivid; His splash-ink freehand brushwork, which combines the brushwork of pen and ink, is full of fun.