Xu Wei (1521-1593) was born in the green vine in his later years (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Xu Wei was a famous dramatist, calligrapher, calligrapher and poet in Ming Dynasty.
"Ink Grape Map" is a unique technique of expression, in which a grape is written from the upper right, and the vines hang down in disorder. With the freehand brushwork method of splashing ink and filling water, the grape beads are stippled and the ink is smooth, and the crystal clear feeling of the grape beads is dripping and smooth, but the realism and vividness of the objects are fully exerted. At the top of the painting, a poem was inscribed in a strange cursive script: "Half-life has become an old man, and the evening breeze blows during self-study." The pearl at the bottom of the pen has nowhere to sell, and it is idle to throw it in the wild vine, which is the expression of the painter's anger.
Xu Wei is an artist with innovative spirit. He strongly opposed archaization and denounced the retro atmosphere in the literary world. The pursuit of bold creation in literature has also been applied to painting creation, and he has established his own distinctive painting style.
Xu Wei is good at freehand brushwork flowers with ink, developing the tradition of freehand brushwork in literati painting, changing the natural, graceful, quiet and elegant style of Wu Pai's flower-and-bird painting, and forming a rough, vigorous and bold painting style. Paintings combine poetry with vigorous calligraphy, showing the artist's stubborn personality.
His representative works include Miscellaneous Flowers, Ink Grapes, Lotus Crab, Pomegranate and so on. Painters express their dissatisfaction with social reality and life experience in the form of inscribed poems. Freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting in Ming Dynasty, especially Xu Wei's ink-and-wash freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting, had great influence on Qing Dynasty and modern times.
Appreciation of Xu Wei's ink-wash grape picture: Xu Wei's ink-wash grape picture is his masterpiece of ink-wash painting. The upper part of this painting is Xu Wei's inscription, from which we can appreciate Xu Wei's momentum in calligraphy, and the lower part is the main body of the painting, namely grapes.