Eight eccentrics in Yangzhou (pronunciation plus character introduction);
1, Zheng Xie (Zheng Xiè) (legendary monster)
Zheng Xie (1693- 1765), a native of Banqiao, Jiangsu Province, was the champion of Kangxi in the imperial examination. He was a juren in the tenth year of Yongzheng and a scholar in the first year of Qianlong.
Officials in Fanxian and Weixian counties in Shandong province have a political voice, demanding to relieve the hunger of the people and to be big officials, so they ask for illness. Before and after he became an official, he lived in Yangzhou and made a living by painting and calligraphy. He is good at drawing orchids, bamboos, stones, pines and chrysanthemums. But he has made the most outstanding achievements in painting orchids for more than 50 years.
2. Gao Xiang (strange in indifference)
Gao Xiang (1688- 1753), a native of Ganquan County, Yangzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province, was a painter in the Qing Dynasty and one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". Household cloth.
Good at painting landscapes and flowers. His landscape paintings are based on Hong Ren and Shi Tao, and most of his small landscape paintings come from sketches. Beautiful and elegant, it has its own pattern. Plum paintings are all thin and thin, and they all win with rhyme. He is also good at taking pictures. Jin Nong and Wang's poems are all small portraits printed first, that is, written by Gao Xiang, with concise line drawing and realistic performance. Fine carving, learning process ear. He is also good at poetry, including West Tang Poetry.
3. j Ι n nó ng (j ρ n nó ng) (unique talent)
Jin Nong (1687- 1764), a native of Renhe (now Hangzhou), Zhejiang Province, has long lived in Yangzhou. I have never been an official in my life, and I was recommended to be a scholar and a poet. I entered Beijing and came back without trying.
He is well-read and versatile. He began to paint after the age of 50 and was poor all his life. He is good at flowers and birds, landscapes and figures, especially at ink painting and plum blossom. His paintings are simple in shape, elegant in layout and novel in conception. His works include "Fan Mi Tu" and "The More Painting".
At first, he created a kind of official script, calling himself "lacquer script", which had another interest, and was also called Jin Nong style or Dong Xin style. His strokes are thick and thin, elegant and heavy, and his fonts are mostly rectangular, top-heavy and very beautiful.
4. Shan Li (Lu Shang) (Blame of Life)
Li Shan (1686- 1762), a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu. Kangxi was promoted in fifty years, and in fifty-three years, painting was called a sacrifice of the imperial court. Because I don't want to be bound by orthodox painting style, I am excluded. After three years of Qianlong, he was elected as the magistrate of tengxian and returned to the provincial government.
After two different titles and a demotion, he went to Yangzhou to sell paintings for a living. He has the closest relationship with Zheng Xie, so Zheng has the saying that "Yangzhou sells paintings and is old with Li". In his early years, he learned to paint landscapes from Wei, a fellow countryman, and inherited Huang all the way. When he worshipped the imperial palace, he learned painting from Jiang Tingxi. Later, he asked the master of finger painting for advice and advocated freehand brushwork.
In Yangzhou, he was inspired by Shi Tao's brushwork, so he splashed ink with broken pens, and his painting style changed greatly, forming his own unique style. In this style, pen and ink blended into a strange taste. He likes to draw long articles, and his writing style is uneven, which makes the pictures very rich, and his works have a great influence on flower-and-bird painting in the late Qing Dynasty.
5.Huang shèn (strange in understanding)
Huang Shen, a native of Ninghua, Fujian, was named Gongmao, Gongmao, Gongshou, Juzhuang and Donghai Buyi. He is good at freehand brushwork figures, intercropping flowers and birds, landscapes and bold colors. As one of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, he is an all-round painter.
When I was young, I studied hard. Because of difficulties at home, I lived in a small temple. "Books are paintings, and there is no wax at night. I read in the bright light of the Buddhist temple. " He is good at drawing numbers. In his early years, he studied under the official Zhou Dynasty and did more meticulous work. Later, inspired by the original work of Huai Su, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, he painted with wild brushwork and became a freehand brushwork.
6. Li (l ǐ f ā ng y and ng) (blame is stubbornness)
Li (1695 ~ 1755), a poet in China in the Qing Dynasty, was born in Tongzhou (now Nantong, Jiangsu), with his real name, alias, Yiyuan and Baiyishan. Living in Jinling Borrowing Landscape Garden, claiming to be the owner of Borrowing Landscape Garden.
It is one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". Born in an official family, he once served as Le 'an County Magistrate, Lanshan County Magistrate, Qianshan County Magistrate and Chuzhou Magistrate. When you are an official, you are "benevolent." Later, he was dismissed for false accusation. After he became an official, he borrowed a garden in Nanjing, became the owner of the garden in his own name, and often went to Yangzhou to sell paintings.
Have contacts with Li Shan, Jin Nong and Zheng Xie. Specializing in poetry, calligraphy and painting, good at plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, pine and fish. He pays attention to the tradition of learning from nature and can be unique. His brushwork is vigorous, his knife method is simple and vivid. It is listed as one of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou.
7. Wang (wāng shèshèn) (complaining)
Wang (1686- 1759), whose real name is Chilin, alias Waishi, is an old man in late spring, originally from Shexian County, Anhui Province, who lives in Yangzhou and sells paintings for a living.
Flowers and plants, pen at will, colorful. He is especially good at painting plums and often goes to Meihualing outside Yangzhou to enjoy and write plums. Plum blossoms are famous for their dense branches, elegant and beautiful, Jin Nong said;
The beauty of painting plum lies in the fact that Guangling has two friends, Wang Chao's forest painting is numerous, and Gao Xitang's painting is sparse. But judging from his paintings of plums, not all of them are flourishing, but they tend to be thinner. No matter how simple or complicated, you have time to wrap up the fragrance and enjoy the snow and mountains.
At the age of 54, he was blind in his left eye, but he could still draw plum blossoms. When he showed his beauty, he engraved: he was born blind in his left eye, but he still kept one eye for plum blossoms. Sixty-seven years old, blind, but still able to write weeds, but also pay attention to the mind. Turning a blind eye is not turning a blind eye to one's own heart. Good poem, author of Selected Poems in the Nest Forest.
8.Luópén (blamed on the mission)
(1733- 1799), whose real name is Dunfu, whose real name is Liangfeng, whose real name is Huasi monk, Jinniushan, Zhou fisherman and old man. Famous painter in Qing Dynasty, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou".
Originally from Shexian County, Anhui Province, I lived in Yangzhou. He once lived in Tommy Lane, Caiyi Street, calling himself "Zhu Cao Shilin". I am a disciple of Jin Nong. I am not an official, so I am good at traveling.
Extended data:
"Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou" is the general name of a group of painters and painters with similar styles who were active in Yangzhou from the middle of Kangxi to the end of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, and is often called "Yangzhou Painting School" in art history.
In the history of painting in China, there are different opinions, generally recognized as: Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Huang Shen, Shan Li, Li, Wang, Gao Xiang. As for the painters mentioned by others, such as Ruan Yuan, Hua Yan, Min Zhen, Gao, Li Mian, Chen Zhuan, Bian Shoumin, Yang Fa, etc. It can also be included because of similar painting styles.
Because the word "eight" can be regarded as a number or a divisor. Most of them were born in poverty, lived a poor life, and were lofty and wild. Calligraphy and painting often become the media for them to express their wishes and feelings.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Yangzhou eight eccentrics