Ai Wu, a member of the family, emerged from his grandfather, and his father Lin Wen was the magistrate of Yongjia, Wenzhou. I studied classical poetry from an early age and loved painting and calligraphy. I am a poet of Bai Juyi and Su Shi. I was educated in Wu Kuan, studied calligraphy in Liying Town and painting in Shenzhen. He was famous when he was young. In poetry, he, Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin and Xu Zhenqing are also known as "four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River" ("four talents in Wuzhong"). In the history of painting, he and Shen Zhou created "five schools", and together with Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Chou Ying, they were called "Ming Sijia".
Wen Zhiming had a rough road in the imperial examination. From Hongzhi Mao Yi (1495) aged 26 to Jiajing Renwu (1522) aged 53, he failed ten times. It was not until the age of 54 that he was recommended by Li Chongsi, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to go to Beijing as a gongsheng. After examination by the official department, he was appointed as imperial academy with a meager salary. At this time, his paintings and calligraphy were already famous, but he was unhappy because of the jealousy and exclusion of his colleagues in the Hanlin Academy. Four years, witnessed the officialdom, begging again and again. At the age of 57, he left Beijing, set sail south, returned to Suzhou to settle down, and devoted himself to poetry and painting. Instead of seeking official promotion, you will make a fool of yourself. In his later years, he became famous, known as "writing all over the world", and people who bought calligraphy and painting stepped on the threshold. Nearly ninety years old, he worked tirelessly to make an epitaph for a book, and died before he finished writing it. Familiar with painting art in various subjects, good at all kinds of fine and rough techniques, excellent eyesight and pen control ability. In his 80s, he was able to write small letters fluently and tirelessly.
Wen Zhiming's calligraphy and painting attainments are extremely comprehensive, and his poems, essays and paintings are excellent. People call it the "four unique" generalist. Specializing in many skills can be green, ink and wash, meticulous and freehand. Mountains and rivers, people, flowers, orchids, etc. All works, especially mountains and rivers. Whether it is elegant and beautiful turquoise, or ink paintings by Shen Xiong and Wen Xiu, most of them describe the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River or literati gardens, showing the life scenes of literati reading, feasting and farewell, and cruising in the spring forest. In addition to describing Yuan people, painting can be traced back to the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, but it is rarely influenced by quadrangles in the Southern Song Dynasty. In his early years, he studied under Shen Zhou, and later joined Zhao Mengfu, Wang Meng and Zhenwu, forming his own style.
Wen Zhiming's painting style is coarse and fine, with meticulous brushwork as the main style. Rough brush originated from Shen Zhou and Zhenwu, and used the ancient wood and bamboo stone method of Zhao Mengfu. The pen and ink are vigorous and dripping, the dry pen rubbings, and the calligraphy flies white, showing the hierarchy and charm in the rough bamboo slips; Zhao Mengfu and Wang Meng used meticulous brushwork. Dense scenery, less space and depth, regular shape, angular, and sometimes deformed. The brushwork is delicate, slightly rough, and childlike in mastery. The artistic conception of the works is quiet and elegant, the scenery is layered, and there is a lack of deep space expression. The mountains and rivers are angular and slightly deformed, and the mountains are set up to lean against and pursue a sense of plane, while the pen and ink are mainly dry, ripe, elegant in color and meticulous in style. Beauty and elegance have their own "morale". Lyric meaning is better than Shen Zhou, but the bearing pattern is worse. The colors are green and heavy, with a faint crimson between them, and elegance is seen in freshness. His meticulous landscape painting is true color painting, which has the characteristics of decoration, lyricism, childishness and closeness to the people, which also laid the basic characteristics of the "five schools".
His meticulous works include Spring in the South of the Yangtze River, under the greenwood tree's Talk and Appreciating Lenten. The brushwork works include "Ancient Wood Cold Spring", which shows a quiet and elegant temperament in the extensive.
Wen Zhiming painted Cynthia more, which was beautiful and elegant, free from vulgarity and natural, which came from the tradition of Yuan people. Its wood and stone are also unique, old and dry, and have gone through hardships, such as the "Yushan Three Trees" as the representative. He is also a good man, who studied under Zhao Mengfu and Li, dating back to Jin and Tang Dynasties. His implication is subtle and elegant. His masterpiece is The Picture of Xiang Jun and Xiang Lady.
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