The source of this sentence: Dong Qichang said in "Essays on Painting Zen Rooms-Volume II": "A painter has six methods and vivid charm. Charm can't be learned, it's innate knowledge, and it has its own talents, but there are also places to learn. Read thousands of books, take the Wan Li Road, get rid of the dust and turbidity in your chest, and naturally camp in the gully and become an E. "
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Dong Qichang's calligraphy is also called "Zhang Xing Mi Dong", which means that he is juxtaposed with Linyi Xing Dong, Zhang Jin Jiang Rui Tu and Xu Tianmi, besides reading thousands of books Jin Dian sentences and taking Wan Li Road. There is a saying in the painting that the south is east and the north is rice. Mo Shilong and Chen Jiru advocated the theory of "North-South School", that is, the landscape paintings of "courtyard style" and "literati painting" were divided into two schools.
There are countless paintings and calligraphy works created by Dong Qichang in his life, among which the paintings and poems of recent people are an important part. "Reading thousands of books" as he said in "Essays on Painting a Zen Room" means that one must learn from tradition and the ancients if he wants to become an artist.
At the age of 65,438+07, he wrote Yan Zhenqing's Many Pagodas when he began to learn calligraphy. At the age of 22, he studied painting with Huang, and later with other painting schools. This practice of learning from the ancients lasted for 80 years and accompanied him all his life. He widely absorbed the strengths of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and learned from others, which made his paintings and calligraphy achieve artistic achievements beyond the ancients.