Wang _( 1632 April10 ─171kloc-0/5), Zishigu, No.1 Gengyan Sanren, Jianmen Qiaoke, Wumu Mountain Man, Qinghui Old Man, etc. Jiangnan Suzhou Changshu (now Changshu, Jiangsu) people. A famous painter in the Qing Dynasty, he was called "the sage of painting in the early Qing Dynasty". Together with Wang Jian, Wang Shimin and Wang, they are also called "Four Kings" of landscape painters. On painting, they advocated that "Yuan people used pen and ink to transport the valley of Song people, while Ze used the charm of Tang people."
Chinese name: Wang (Hu ι)
Alias: Shigu, Geng Yan Sanren, Jianmen Ke Qiao, etc.
Nationality: China (Qing)
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Changshu, Jiangsu
Date of birth: 1632 April 10.
Date of death:1717165438+10/5.
Occupation: painter
Faith: Taoism
Main achievements: painting saints in the early Qing Dynasty
Representative works: Xiao Temple in Autumn Mountain, Maple Forest in Yushan Mountain, Qiu Shu Nightingale and Zhou Fang.
Style characteristic
Wang loved painting since childhood, inherited his family style, and studied painting with fellow countryman Huang. He showed extraordinary painting ability very early. Wang _ studied under Wang Shimin and Wang Jian. However, the landscapes he painted are not limited to one kind, and they are widely collected. They are the achievements of various schools since the Tang and Song Dynasties, and they are integrated with the northern and southern painting schools. On the basis of Wang Shimin and Wang Jian's development of the Southern Society, Wang learned some techniques from the Northern Society, comprehensively combed the tradition of landscape painting, and formed a set of comprehensive and generalized laws. Wang perfectly combined the brushwork of Huang and Wang Meng with the composition of Fan Kuan, creating a rich and colorful landscape painting style. Therefore, the small scenes he painted in the south of the Yangtze River are often interesting, quiet and smart. Wang _ likes to use both dry pen and wet pen when painting, and often rubs it with fine pen, so the picture effect is more complicated. Someone once said, "It is a great achievement to convey the mountains and valleys of Song people with the pen and ink of Yuan people and the charm of Tang people." In his early days, his painting style was beautiful and beautiful, but in his later years, it tended to be broad and vigorous. The composition is rich and varied, and the ink and light crimson are well rendered. Some critics also pointed out that Wang _ is too familiar with the pen, but some of his paintings are exposed, and the method of using ink has not changed much, and the composition is a little congested.
Time and personnel assessment
Wang _, Wang Shimin, Wang Jian and Wang are called "Four Kings", and together with Yun they are called "Six Kings in the Early Qing Dynasty" or "Four Kings Wu Yun". His painting skills are profound, and he is good at imitating ancient methods, which can confuse the audience, but he can't be confused by the law. Some of his works are full of interest in sketch, with changeable composition, good sketch and rendering, and distinctive style. It is more prominent among the four heavenly kings. His paintings were very famous in the Qing Dynasty. In the thirtieth year of Kangxi (169 1), he was asked to draw a map of Kangxi's southern tour, which took three years to complete. Summoned by Crown Prince Yin _, he drew a fan book with the words "the landscape is clear and bright" as a compliment. He is regarded as an original and has a large following. Because he is from Changshu, Changshu has Yushan, so later people call him Yushan School.
Personal work
There are Kangxi's southern tour map (in cooperation with others), Qiushan Temple, Yushan Fenglin, nocturnal map and maps handed down from generation to generation (in Changshu Museum). The author of the afterword of Qinghui's painting. Wang's paintings have always been expensive and are still very popular with collectors. This can be proved by the latest transaction price. On June 1989, at the auction of important ancient paintings in China, Christie's took out a piece of Wang's "Ancient Landscape Map" recorded in "Collection of Shiqu Qing Jian". It is one of Wang Linyi's masterpieces of ancient landscapes. The price is15-180,000 US dollars, and finally it reaches 396,000 US dollars. Although the price of the paintings taken in the future has been reduced, they are still considerable compared with the works of other painters in the Qing Dynasty. In the same year, at another auction of "Exquisite China Paintings and Calligraphy" at Christie's, its price dropped again. Wang's writing style is beautiful, the distant mountains and the mysterious place complement each other, and the ink and wash are naturally muddy. The attached picture is a painter's double topic, which shows the charm of Cao Yunxi and embodies the master's skill in learning from the past. The estimate of this picture was $25,000 to $35,000, and it was $52,800. 1990165438+1On October 26th, Sotheby's auctioned one of his volumes "Spring in Taibai" in new york, and the price reached 7 1500 USD. Two days later, Christie's also auctioned one of his works in new york. The Copy of Summer Mountain in Dongyuan is a light-colored silk book with a vertical axis of 665,438 US dollars.