First, let's talk about Xu Zhenqing. Xu Zhenqing was very clever since he was a child, and he knew how to write when he was very young. As the saying goes, "the family does not keep books, but knows everything." Xu Zhenqing studied literature with Wu Kuan in his early years, and then studied calligraphy with Li Yingzhen. No matter in which respect, they have their own accomplishments.
On the other hand, in terms of literary genre, calligraphy and, He Jingming, Kang Hai, Wang, Bian Gong and Wang Ting have become the "top seven". Someone once praised Xu Zhenqing's calligraphy, and Wang Shizhen once praised Xu Zhenqing. Calligraphy literature has its own style.
Wen Zhiming is good at something different. He is especially good at painting art in all subjects, and is good at all kinds of fine and coarse methods. He has good eyesight and pen control. It is said that he can still write fine print in his eighties. Compared with others, Wen Zhiming's achievements are more extensive.
Wen Zhiming's poems, essays and paintings are excellent, and he is known as the "four unique talents". His changeable style laid the basic characteristics of "Wu School". His calligraphy first followed Li Yingzhen's study, and then he extensively studied the marks of the previous generation. Therefore, he has attainments in seal script, official script, regular script and cursive script, which makes people respect him very much.
The most important thing now is calligraphy. Its books are all good at Li, Kai, Xing and Cao. Besides calligraphy, his writing style is also very good. Among his calligraphy, cursive script is the most shocking. His "Weeds" was highly praised later, which was a smash hit.
So there was a saying at that time called "Tang Bohu's painting, Zhu Zhishan's words". Tang Bohu is mainly good at painting, and landscapes, figures and flowers and birds are his strong points. Tang Bohu's figure paintings are mostly ladies, and there are also some historical stories. He inherited the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, and his paintings are unique.
His paintings have thin lines, bright and elegant colors, beautiful posture and accurate modeling; He is also a freehand brushwork figure, and his pen is concise and interesting. People often say that words are like people, and so are paintings. Most of Tang Bohu's paintings and poems express his wild and detached emotions, and his poems are easy to understand.