Zhang Sengyou, whose real name is unknown, was born in Wuzhong, Wu Jun (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Minister Liang and a famous painter in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Tian Liang served as assistant minister of Wuling State in prison, and was in charge of painting in secret pavilions. He is the general of the right-wing army and the local governor of Xing Wu. He studied hard and became a talent. He is good at portrait painting, painting Buddha statues, dragons and eagles, scroll painting and mural painting.
The story of this idiom comes from the legend about him. It is recorded that he painted "convex and concave flowers" in Yicheng Temple in Jinling with the method of "contrast between light and shade", which is very stereoscopic. It shows that he accepted foreign painting techniques, much like the current sketch, and was called "sparse body". Today, an original copy of Five Stars and Twenty-eight Hostels copied by Liang Lingzan in the Tang Dynasty has been handed down from generation to generation and has been exported to Japan. But the brushwork and record of this painting are different. He is also good at sculpture and is known as "Zhang's family style".
Zhang Sengyou's painting art has a great influence on later generations, and he is called the fourth ancestor of painters with Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei and Wu Daozi. Tang Dynasty painters Yan and Wu Daozi both studied under him.
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Zhang Sengyou quoted the method of "point, drag, fork and stroke" in calligraphy, which greatly enriched the techniques of Chinese painting and brought new forms to the picture. In order to distinguish it from Gu and Lu's tight brushwork, Zhang Sengyou's painting method is called "sparse brushwork". Since then, a new two-way painting criterion has been established, enriching and expanding the previous painting principles.
Another great contribution of Zhang Sengyou to painting is that he absorbed the "concave-convex flower" technique in Tianzhu (now Indian) Buddhist painting. The so-called concave-convex painting is the shading method and perspective method, which are not found in China local painting. This method is of great help to shape the space of the body, which can make the picture have a three-dimensional effect and receive realistic results.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang Monk Friends