The tiger is the king of beasts and a "caterpillar" among beasts, so the ancients called it a "long worm". The earliest record of tigers can be found in "Sou Shen Ji", which records: Funan Wang Fan was looking for tigers to raise in the mountains. If someone committed a crime, he would throw himself into the tiger and not bite him, so he would be forgiven. Therefore, the tiger was called a big insect.
As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. As the king of powerful mountains and forests, the ancients also liked to draw tigers very much. Drawing tigers is quite difficult, so the saying "Painting tigers is not the opposite of dogs" was born. We all know Tang Bohu. , a Suzhou painter of the Ming Dynasty, whose calligraphy was unique and handsome, and he was also a poet.
Tang Yin was born in Suzhou Prefecture in the sixth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1470). His family was well-off and he was erudite and talented since childhood. At the age of 15, he became the first-place student in Suzhou Prefecture School. In 1494, Tang Yin's family situation suddenly changed. His father passed away, and his mother, wife, and son passed away in one or two years. At this time, he was only in his mid-twenties.
Under the advice of his friend Zhu Zhishan, Tang Yin devoted himself to studying again. At the age of 30, he went to Beijing to take the exam. He was dismissed as a minor official of the Zhejiang vassal for leaking the test papers. Tang Yin was determined not to take up the post and got his second wife. Unable to persevere in the impoverished life, he chose to remarry. The frustrated Tang Yin traveled around the country and made a living by selling literature and paintings.
Tang Yin’s highest artistic achievement in his life was his landscape painting. He broke through the Northern and Southern Schools of Painting, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty literati’s landscape paintings. He mainly studied the painting schools of Li Tang and Liu Songnian of the Southern Song Dynasty, and dabbled in the Northern Song Dynasty. The painting styles of Li Cheng, Wang Meng of the Yuan Dynasty and others gradually formed their own unique style.
Representative works of landscape painting include "Lonely Owl in the Setting Clouds", "Spring Mountain Companion", "Evening Coolness in the Xu Pavilion", "Apricot Blossom Thatch", etc., but few authentic works of Tang Yin have survived. , once it comes out, it will inevitably arouse a lot of heated discussion and rush for it. Tang Yin's "Jiang Ting Talking about Ancient Pictures" sold for a high price of 11.5 million yuan.
Tang Yin's "Songya Farewell Painting" collected by Song Ziwen sold for a sky-high price of 71.3 million yuan, once again breaking the record for Tang Yin's calligraphy and painting auctions. In recent years, the lowest price for Tang Yin's works has been 3 million yuan. , the average price is around 40 million, and in 2014, an authentic painting of Tang Yin's "Dwelling in the Roaring Tiger Mountain" was circulated on the Internet and was pirated millions of times.
This picture of Hu Roaring Mountain Dwelling was written by a painter named Liangnian in Tianjin. However, he did not use his own name, but signed it with Tang Yin. Two years later, , "Liang Nian" accidentally discovered that his paintings became popular, and some people even turned the paintings into emoticons.
There are also many people who even make various copies and modifications in the name of Tang Yin’s authentic works. Anyway, a Tang Yin authentic work passed online does not need to pay any copyright fees. In just 2 years, A little tiger has been pirated millions of times, perhaps because this little tiger is so cute.
In fact, the forgery of paintings has never been a rare thing. Even Zhang Daqian has experience in forging traditional Chinese paintings. Because his painting skills are so exquisite, the value of the fake paintings is often higher than the original works. French forger Wolff He has forged famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh and Picasso.
But he did not imitate it, but re-painted it in the style of a famous person. He painted for more than 40 years, and 14 of the famous paintings together sold for a high price of US$500 million. If Wall If Fugang follows formal channels, maybe he will become a real master in the art world and be called the "master of forgery of Leonardo da Vinci of realism".