Zhang Sengyou, born in Wuzhong, Southern Dynasties, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, with an unknown date of birth and death, and is a painter. Liang Wudi Tian Jian * * was appointed Assistant Minister of Wuling Kingdom in May, 50219 * *, and was responsible for painting in the secret court of the imperial court. He served as the right-wing army and the local governor of Xing Wu. Confucius, children of Confucianism, studied under their parents, and were all good at drawing religious paintings.
Zhang Sengyou is famous for his paintings of Buddhism and Taoism, as well as figures, portraits, flowers and birds, animals and landscapes. He painted a large number of murals in many temples in the south of the Yangtze River, and was ordered to paint portraits of kings of various countries at that time, which was able to receive the effect of "painting". His legend of "making the finishing point" is quite popular.
Zhang Monk You is engaged in painting creation, with quick thinking and hard work. He has never put down his pen for decades. In terms of skills, she can find new methods and gain extensive knowledge. She used to incorporate the "Pen Diagram" by Wei Shuo, a female calligrapher in the Jin Dynasty, into her paintings to make it more expressive. His artistic techniques are simple and changeable, and he has created a painting method of "the pen is just one or two, and the image is what it should be". Together with Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty, he was praised as a representative of sparse body by later generations, and enjoyed a high reputation with the dense body represented by Gu Kaizhi and Lu Tanwei.
At the same time, he is good at absorbing and digesting the expressive techniques of foreign art. According to records, he used the concave-convex painting method introduced from Tianzhu * * * and now India * * * to create murals in the Yicheng Temple of Jiankang * * in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. The painted objects are stereoscopic from a distance and close to a plane, so the temple is also called concave-convex temple.
Zhang Sengyou studied hard on the figures of Buddha statues and formed his own style, so he was called Zhang. He can draw people in a way that is consistent with the present and the present. He can successfully draw different image characteristics and styles of the painted objects from their specific identities, times and nationalities.
Artist Zhang Sengyou's Artistic Achievements
Zhang Sengyou is good at painting people's stories and religious paintings, and is called a painter who surpasses his predecessors. Liang Wudi is a good Buddha. Anyone who decorates a Buddhist temple is required to draw a wall. Painted Buddha statues, with their own style, are called "Zhang's style" and are a model of sculptors. He is also good at portrait painting and genre painting. He is also a dragon painter, and there is a legend that makes the finishing point break through the wall and fly away. He once painted cinnabar and turquoise "convex and concave flowers" with Tianzhu and ancient India on the gate of Yicheng Temple in Jiankang, which had a three-dimensional effect. Yao Zui's Catalogue of Continued Paintings said: "Good painting of pagodas is beyond the reach of group workers." Zhang Yanyuan's family once kept Zhang Sengyou's Tathagata and saw his Vimalakīrti, Bodhisattva and other works with their own eyes. Zhang Sengyou worked hard all his life, and continued to draw a catalogue, saying that he "worked day and night, was lazy and tireless, but was clear about public and private, and never put down his pen, but he could not be idle for several years." It shows his valuable diligence. In terms of color, it absorbed foreign influences.
According to "Jiankang" records: "When entering the temple, Liang Shaoling and Wang Lun painted convex and concave flowers at the temple gate, which were named as the handwriting of Zhang Monk Friends. Its flowers are made of the legacy of Tianzhu, Zhu and turquoise. From a distance, eyes are dizzy and myopia is flat. The world is salty and different, so it is called the convex and concave temple cloud. " It is said that he created a "boneless" method with no outline, all painted in colors, which changed the emaciated image since Lu Gu, created a fuller model and painted a "short and colorful face". Evaluation: "Like the beauty of people, Zhang * * * gets its flesh, Lu * * * explores its bones, and Gu * * * gets its spirit." Zhang Sengyou's "thin style" painting flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later generations say that his paintings are mostly based on calligraphy, with strokes like a hook and halberd sword. There are gaps and images in painting, which changed the "dense body" painting method of Gu Zhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Lu Tanwei in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Later generations and Wu Daozi in Tang Dynasty called it "sparse body". Both Confucius and Confucian children are good at drawing religious paintings.
Zhang Sengyou's works include Eighteen Nights of the Gods, Liang Wudi Statue, Hanwu Shooting at jiaozi, King Wu Ge of Wu, King of Tao, Monster in Qingxi Palace, and Fairy Mona. It is published in Xuanhe Painting Spectrum, Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties and History of Zhenguan Public and Private Paintings. The works handed down from ancient times include "Five Stars and Twenty-eight Dwellings", which is now in Osaka City Art Museum, Japan.
Legend of the painter Zhang Monk Friends
One day, Zhang Sengyou painted four dragons on the wall of anrakuji in Jinling. These four dragons bared their teeth and showed vivid images, but strangely, they didn't draw eyes. The tourists felt very sorry for the lack of charm, so they asked Zhang Sengyou to repair the dragon's eyes. Zhang Monk Friend refused to say, just draw an eye and the dragon flew away. Tourists don't believe it. They all think that monk Zhang is bluffing. Everyone asked again and again, so Zhang Monk-you had to bring a pen and be gentle. At the moment, I saw lightning and thunder, and it was stormy. Two dragons crashed into the wall and flew into the sky. The two dragons without eyes are still on the wall. Later, when comparing the composition or text, add incisive sentences at key points to make the content more vivid.
There are dragons on the murals of Nanhua Temple. During the Sui Dynasty, two real dragons flew out of the dragon pool near the temple and fought with the dragons in the painting, which caused a storm and heated discussion. Taoist Ding drew an iron symbol, and two dragonflies crossed the mountain, but the painted dragon was still there. Ding Xuan was really angry: "Who painted this dragon? It's all painted as immortals! ! "The monk said," It's Master Zhang! " Ding Gengsheng was angry: "Draw when you should. What are your eyes doing? ! "Two nails were nailed to the mural longan, and the painted dragon was finally subdued.