He learned from nature, learned from others and had a distinct personality. Starting from the reality of life, he pays attention to the life interest of pen and ink, and the artistic conception blends with the artistic conception, poetry and painting, showing the beauty of life and life in his works. Painting grass insects is a painting method corresponding to big mountains and rivers since ancient times. Just because it is small, it was once falsely called "Xia". The Postscript on Painting, which was widely circulated in the Northern Song Dynasty, said that Gu Kaizhi's evaluation of painting was "people first, mountains second, water second, dogs and horses second, pavilions second, not as good as birds", while Zhang Shunbin's evaluation of painting was simply "birds and fish second, bees and butterflies third in insect cicada". The reason is not that grass worms are despised by painters, but that it is difficult to draw. "It's usually difficult to draw a picture in its shape, and the characters win with God." It is already difficult to draw a picture, and it is even more difficult to draw a picture if you want to draw it well. Mr. Xu Mao's "Guo Tu" overcame the morphological difficulties, and the flowers and plants obtained were freehand, but the decoration of Guo Guo or birds was both meticulous and freehand. Among all kinds of insects, crickets and slugs are the most playthings on the earth, and their shapes are familiar to the world. Mr. Xu's skill in painting Guo Guo lies in painting familiar things so delicately that no one can pick out any false faults. At the end of the pen, insect hair is like gold thread, as thin as spider silk, or tilted or moved; The limbs are simulated as twigs, twigs, or lifting feet or feet, exactly the same as real insects between flowers and plants. Through this skill of using thread, his painting has been promoted to a solid height. In the use of pen, ink and color, painting is determined by ink, or painted by light blue with emerald green, or painted by ochre yellow with flesh color, as thick as grass and as thin as yarn, which is amazing. The most beautiful thing is the expression of insects. The so-called "divine victory" is the most refined of Mr. Xu's paintings. Slugs or sparrows and butterflies dance with excitement or joy in the painting, or are exposed to flowers or sing in the sky. The whole picture presents a harmonious aesthetic feeling in agility.
Painting pays attention to "conception first", and Mr. Xu Maosheng's paintings must have a strong conception in them. The picture in one of his works is often divided into two parts, one is supporting and the other is spreading. The supporting part is sometimes flowers, sometimes vegetables and fruits, and sometimes trees when painting birds; The unfolding part is the focus and core of the work, that is, those slugs or birds and butterflies. The latter is the crowning touch of the whole painting and the key point. He likes to be a hundred miles or a hundred birds. "Hundred" is a number that can be regarded as a respectable person in traditional culture. On the large-scale picture composition, he often draws up the "wishful" layout of China's classical peaceful things. Vines or fruits and vegetables flowing down from the handle are gently stuck in the clouds, flies climb up or birds. Zou Yigui's "Painting on the Mountain" said: "Painting has two words: live and take off". In Mr. Xu's paintings, the "living" part is Cordyceps, which is called "Zuo"; The part of "Yi" lies in painting rhyme and the special painting language embodied by the combination of the two, which is called "Yi". From work to escape, painting is a wonderful product.
Mr. Xu Mao studied painting as a teenager and studied Qi Baishi and Wang Xuetao in his early years. After becoming famous, he continued to learn from painters and painters, consulted many masters such as, Ouyang, Qi Xilai, Lei and Park Zhe, and communicated with many contemporary painters and painters such as Bai. His painting style inherited from Wang Xuetao, a master of flower-and-bird painting, and gradually formed a new style under the careful guidance of Xiao Lang, a famous flower-and-bird painter. In the national art exhibition, his paintings won many awards and were collected by many institutions including Hong Kong and Taiwan. He also held a solo exhibition in Taiwan Province Province, and the Collection of Xu Mao's Paintings and Calligraphy was published by Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House on 20 13. In fact, Mr. Xu Mao especially believed in the method of drawing grasshoppers in He Lu: "When Fang put pen to paper, I didn't know I was a grasshopper?" Is the worm for me? "Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly has a lot of weight. I forgot both of them, which may be the reason for his success!