Why is Xu Wei an epoch-making artist?

Xu Wei is versatile and unique in poetry, drama, calligraphy and painting. He is also known as "the three gifted scholars of Ming Dynasty" with Jie Jin and Yang Shen. He is the founder of "splash-ink freehand brushwork" and the originator of "Ivy League" in China. His paintings can absorb the essence of predecessors and be completely transformed. They don't want to look like gods. They all take landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, and bamboo stones as themes, with flowers as the most prominent, creating a generation of painting styles, which have a great influence on later painting circles (such as Badashanren, Shi Tao, Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics, etc.).

The book is good at cursive writing and has written many poems, which is known as "the next generation of talents"; Can play the piano and master the melody; Narration of Southern Opera is China's first monograph on the theory of Southern Opera. In addition, the zaju "Four Sounds of Apes", "Song of Dai Xiao" and selected books have also been handed down from generation to generation.

Extended data

Xu Wei's masterpieces handed down from generation to generation include three episodes, Lu Shi, Yi Manuscript, Lu Shi, and the zaju "Four Saints". The zaju "Dai Xiao" and the novel "Strange Tales of Yunhe" are also said to have been written by Xu Wei. Modern people have made it up.

Xu Wei's famous works handed down from generation to generation include the Axis of Ink Grape, Flowers and Birds of Landscape Figures (all in the Palace Museum), the Axis of Peony and Banana Stone, the Nine Sections of Ink Flower (now in the Palace Museum), the Picture of Ivy House and the Picture of Riding Donkeys.

He studied painting in middle age and inherited Liang Kai's brush and ink and Lin Liang's and Shen Zhou's freehand flower-and-bird paintings. Therefore, he is good at drawing ink painting, indulged in using a pen, and drew a broken chrysanthemum, dripping with ink, flowing in Gu Zhuo, with a unique style. He also painted landscapes, regardless of rope and ink, and the characters he painted were lifelike. His brushwork is more bold and concise, dry pen, wet pen and broken pen can be used. His style is fresh, he is free in Wang Yang, and he is a school of his own, forming the "Ivy League School". He himself is particularly proud of calligraphy.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wei Xu (152 1- 1593)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Xu Wei