In addition to Gong Xian, Fan Yin is also famous for his landscapes, flowers and people. His landscape works generally have two styles, one is the narrow road with the meaning of green landscape, and the other is the simple way of ink landscape.
Fan Yin's works are full of natural flavor. If Gong Xian's mountains and rivers can get the natural charm, then Fan Yin's works are all about the "charm" of nature.
Wu Hong, one of the "Eight Families in Jinling", originally lived in Jinling and later lived in Jinling. He also mainly created landscapes, starting from various schools in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. His style of painting is closer to that of Fan Yin, but his brushwork is sharper than that of Fan Yin. Wu Hongduo uses broken straight lines to shape rocks, and it is this method of combining halo dyeing that describes the convexity, concavity and yin and yang of rocks well. His calligraphy is as eclectic as stone painting, sharp-edged, elegant and smart.
Zou Zhe studied his father's paintings and was good at landscapes and flowers. He is one of the "Eight Schools". Although his works have not been handed down to the world, some of them can still be seen. First of all, the layout of his works broke Fan Yin's and Wu Hong's lofty and far-reaching ways. His landscape paintings are steady and quaint, and sporadic landscape albums are simple and elegant.
Zou Zhe's brushwork is close to the style of Ming Dynasty, which may be influenced by his father's school. His brushwork is strong and concise, and his colors are elegant and beautiful. His description of real scenery reached a high level, which is also a very typical style of Jinling painting school in the early Qing Dynasty.
Ye Xin's landscape paintings are known as "exquisite and quiet", and his wild mountains are desolate and lonely, which is impressive. This painting depicts the scene of a spring outing. In March, when peach blossoms were in full bloom, Tao Tao was fascinated by boating in the green hills of Green Lake and wandering in the smoky beauty. This painting is light in pen, light in ink, remote in scenery and elegant in artistic conception, which is really the so-called "light and light, light to nothing" interest. In addition, there are Hu Yi and Gao Cen with different styles. Like Xie Xun, they all use simple pens. Compared with Fan Yin, Wu Hong is not as good as them. Their strokes are thinner and straighter, but they are not as stiff, steep and gentle as Wu Hongzhi.
Xie Xun, a meticulous painter, is good at painting landscapes and flowers. He is as famous as Gong Xian and Fan Yin, and is one of the "Eight Schools of Jinling".
In the early Qing Dynasty, the "Jinling Eight Schools" mainly lived in the hundred years between the demise of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of the Qing Dynasty. During this period, the depression caused by the war in the late Ming Dynasty began to improve, the social order tended to be stable, and people's lives began to normalize gradually.
However, there are still some people who are dissatisfied with the rule of the Qing Dynasty and are eager to restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty. In this case, there appeared a group of Ming Dynasty adherents who were unwilling to cooperate with the imperial court and lived in seclusion in the mountains.
The eight schools of Jinling were also formed at this time, all of which are more or less with the color of adherents. Most of them are obsessed with painting instead of seeking vitality in their official career, hiding in the mountains and singing with poems and paintings, so as to remember the lost "old country", describe the beautiful mountains and rivers and relieve the sadness after the national subjugation.
Therefore, most of the works of the "Eight Heroes of Jinling" have a fresh and quiet temperament, are not stained with the world dust, and have strong artistic appreciation value. Therefore, their works are deeply loved by people. With the awakening of the painting market at that time, the works of "Jinling Eight Sons" began to attract attention and became people's darling.
In a word, these painters in Jinling in the early Qing Dynasty represented the highest creative level at that time and fully reflected their creative ideas. The quiet beauty and natural anger in their pictures are the concentrated expression of the thoughts and feelings of the "adherents".
Their attachment to the mountains and rivers of the old country has been turned into concrete forms on the screen, which has changed the old habits since the late Ming Dynasty, shown strong vitality and had a far-reaching impact on the creation of later generations.