CCTV Treasure Appraisal Column about Bamboo Zen Painting:
Xu Li, an appraisal expert from the National Museum of China, and Pan Shenliang, an appraisal expert from the Palace Museum in Beijing, commented: Bamboo Zen has poetry, calligraphy, painting, seals, etc. His attainments in this area, his artistic style belongs to Xu Wei, Bada Shanren and Yangzhou School of Painting. The works emphasize artistic conception, subjective feelings and the expression of personal temperament. His paintings mostly use bamboo, stone, flowers, birds, and landscape figures, rather than sticking to the specific appearance of each thing. His calligraphy mostly uses self-composed poems and Buddhist sayings as content. He is good at making large seal scripts and is good at cursive writing. His seals include Buddha statues and verses. , as the saying goes, it is etched in stone. The contrast between big pen and big sword, big Zhu Dabai, is very strong. Zhu Zen has high talent, extensive experience, and cultivation of literature and Buddhism. Therefore, his calligraphy and painting are not fake carvings and are completely natural. Whether it is a huge painting or a small piece, the viewer can't put it down.
Zhu Chan likes to paint large-scale works. What we call large-scale works means that the bigger he is, the less big he will be. The painting of the birthday boy is a freehand work. His face is opened and completed with small freehand brushwork. The charitable face of the birthday boy and the cuteness and cleverness of the boy are all shown. Where are they mainly expressed? On his face and eyes, that little dot of ink fully expresses that expressive spirit. In particular, it is difficult to draw hands when painting figures. His hands are very good. The little boy held a wine glass in his hand to toast the birthday boy. After seeing it, the birthday boy clapped his hands and clapped. The joy was expressed from the bottom of his heart. The skill of writing is extremely strong, so the expert appraisal team decided to give the price of "Longevity Star Picture" to 200,000 yuan.
Both these two works are authentic, one is earlier and the other is later. A painter's early, middle and late (periods) have different styles, and it is easy to identify early works as fake. Bamboo Zen's Ink Bamboo follows Zheng Banqiao, but re-paints from life, that is, he goes deep into nature to see the changes of bamboo in the wind and rain. This painting is of wind bamboo, thin bamboo facing the wind, with luxuriant branches and leaves. Very few of Bamboo Zen's ink and bamboo paintings have been handed down from generation to generation, and even fewer of them combine poetry, calligraphy, and painting like this one. So based on this situation, the appraisal team researched and appraised the valuation to 300,000 yuan.