Badashanren (about 1626- about 1705), named Zhu Da, was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and was a painter. Badashanren is the grandson of King Zhu Quan IX of Ning Ming and one of the "Four Monks" in the early Qing Dynasty. After the demise of the Ming dynasty, the country was ruined and the mood was sad. He became a monk and his dharma name was handed down.
Painting mountains and rivers, taking more desolate scenery, leaving mountains and rivers, overflowing with the feeling of paper paste, can be described as "no more ink and more tears, mountains and rivers are still old mountains and rivers", "If you want to see people, you can interpret pictures, and you can also write mountains and rivers in the Song Dynasty". It can be seen that Zhu Da expressed his attachment to the old dynasty through painting and calligraphy.
Zhu Da's pen and ink are characterized by laissez-faire, vigor and beauty, elegance and agility. No matter big or small, there is a simple, clear, beautiful and healthy spirit. The structure of rules is unconventional, seeking completeness in incompleteness. Zhu Da's paintings have a great influence on later generations. Zhu Da is good at flowers and birds and landscapes, and his flower-and-bird paintings inherit the freehand brushwork traditions of Chen Chun and Xu Wei.
It has developed into a kind of freehand brushwork, which is characterized by exaggerating the painted flowers, birds, fish and insects by symbolic means. With its peculiar image and concise modeling, the painting has a prominent image and a distinct theme, and even the eyes of birds and fish are painted as "white eyes to people".
In this way, he expressed his aloof and cynical character, thus creating an unprecedented flower-and-bird model. His paintings are simple and bold, vigorous and powerful, dripping and hearty, with simple composition and strange and steep style.
His landscape painting was first studied by Dong Qichang, then by Huang and Ni Zan. He mostly makes ink and wash landscapes, with simple and vigorous brushwork and desolate artistic conception. He is also good at calligraphy, calligraphy, cursive script, patriarchal Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Yan Zhenqing, Dong Qichang and so on. He writes books with a bald pen, and his writing is smooth and healthy.