Song Huizong Evonne (1082- 1 135), the last emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, was a famous painter, although he was the king of national subjugation. His love for painting is very sincere, and he used imperial power to promote painting, which made the painting art in Song Dynasty develop unprecedentedly. He collected more than 500 ancient and modern famous paintings 14, which were classified into14, and compiled Xuanhe Ruilan Collection. He also ordered people to compile Xuanhe Book Spectrum and Xuanhe Painting Spectrum, which left valuable information for art history. Song Huizong is brilliant. He writes and draws well. In calligraphy, he created his own "thin gold body"; In painting, regardless of landscape figures, he is good at flowers and birds. After vicissitudes of life, there are only about 20 existing works of Song Huizong, some of which were ghost paintings by court painters at that time, and only a few people painted them themselves. Sketch of Rare Birds is one of Song Huizong's rare paintings.
The Sketch of Rare Birds is an ink paper scroll, which is a model of Hui Zong's sketching of flowers and birds. The painting style is unpretentious, and the landscape is outlined with ink, regardless of flowers and birds. The volume is 27.5cm high, with a total length of 521.5cm, divided into 12 sections, and each section has Song Huizong double seal and eleven sides. In the picture, the bird feathers are lightly rubbed out with light ink, covered with thick ink, and then the key parts such as the head, tail and feather tip are dyed with thick ink, which reflects the soft texture, rich thickness and colorful feathers. The painting of branches and leaves is similar. In particular, the painting method of bamboo leaves is completely consistent with historical records. Another example is the description of bird morphology. There are also some wonderful features in rare bird sketches, such as the retrospect of the eleventh paragraph of "Harmony between the Original and the Chinese", the dynamic and static contrast of the fifth paragraph of "Jasper Living in Two Habits" and the concentration of the second paragraph of "Smoky Bird". Hui Zong's Sketch of Rare Birds, which has been circulated for nearly a thousand years, has a lot of inheritance and can be tested. There are 265,438+0,765,438+0,654,38-654,38+0,654,38+0,799 inscribed by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and 7 seals in the collection. In addition, there are famous collectors An Yizhou in Ming Dynasty and Liang Qingbiao in Qing Dynasty, and the collection seal is 19 square. Zhang Heng, Xie, and others, the most authoritative appraisers of ancient calligraphy and painting in China, made textual research on their works.