Zhu Da is a master of Chinese painting. His works often express his feelings by symbolic means, such as painting fish, ducks and birds. They all roll their eyes at the sky and are full of stubbornness. His paintings are desolate, reflecting his lonely and angry mood and determined character.
His flower-and-bird paintings are particularly outstanding and have the most personality. Most of his paintings are lyrical, expressing meaning by symbolic means, personalizing the objects and pinning their feelings. Such as fish and birds, once made the expression of "staring at people with white eyes" to express cynicism.
His pen and ink are characterized by laissez-faire, vigor and beauty, elegance and agility. No matter whether it is big or small, it has a simple and bright, clear and healthy style, unconventional structure and completeness in incompleteness.
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Due to the special life experience and background of the times, Zhu Da's paintings can't express his thoughts directly like other painters, but through obscure poems and strange deformed paintings.
He painted fish and birds with only a few strokes, either stretching or tightening, which was specious. Especially those eyes, sometimes oval, are not the eyes of fish and birds we see in our lives. In life, the eyes of fish and birds are round and don't move in the middle of the eyeball.
The most prominent feature of Zhu Da's flower-and-bird painting is "less", which is "base" in his words. First, there are fewer objects to depict; Second, use less pens when shaping objects.
In Zhu Da, every time a fish, a bird, a chicken, a tree, a flower, a fruit or even a pen are not drawn, only one seal can form a complete picture, which can be said to be indispensable.
As the predecessors said, "cherish ink as gold" and "win more with less", only the Eighth National Congress really achieved this, which can be described as unprecedented and unprecedented.
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