Dong Qichang is good at painting landscape paintings, learning from Dong Yuan, Huang and Ni Zan, and his brushwork is delicate and neutral, quiet and sparse; Clean and bright with ink fragrance, gentle and plain; Green, simple and generous.
The existing works include Rock House Map, Eight Scenes of Autumn in Dong Qichang in Ming Dynasty, Map of Zhou Jintang, Pipa of Bai Juyi, Poems in Cursive Script, Postscript of Jiang Yan and so on.
Dong Qichang's artistic achievements;
Dong Qichang is known as "Xing Zhang Mi Dong" in calligraphy, that is, he is tied with Linyi Xing Dong, Zhang Jinjiang Ruitu and Xu Tianmi Wanzhong; There is a saying in the painting that the south is east and the north is rice. Mo Shilong and Chen Jiru advocated the theory of "North-South School", that is, the landscape paintings of "courtyard style" and "literati painting" were divided into two schools. There are countless paintings and calligraphy works created by Dong Qichang in his life, among which the paintings and poems of recent people are an important part.
"Reading thousands of books" as he said in "Essays on Painting a Zen Room" means that one must learn from tradition and the ancients if he wants to become an artist.
At the age of 65,438+07, he wrote Yan Zhenqing's Many Pagodas when he began to learn calligraphy. At the age of 22, he studied painting with Huang, and later with other painting schools. This practice of learning from the ancients lasted for 80 years and accompanied him all his life. He widely absorbed the strengths of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and learned from others, which made his paintings and calligraphy achieve artistic achievements beyond the ancients.