Sure enough, not only are there few visitors in the exhibition hall, but there are also few passengers in the carriages from the subway 1 line (the busiest subway line in the city) to the Shanghai Museum.
Dong Qichang, born in Songjiang, 17 was born in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty. At the age of thirty-four, he won the first place in Di Mei Jinshi. He assisted the emperor's eldest son in studying in imperial academy and went home because of the complicated personnel in the DPRK. Later, he became an official in Huguangmin and other places, and soon returned to his hometown to bury himself in calligraphy.
Because he used to be a third-class official, officials and businessmen asked for calligraphy and painting to appreciate cultural relics, and the gifts were very rich. He soon became the richest bureaucratic landlord in Songjiang, with thousands of hectares of fertile land and hundreds of luxurious houses. Money turned Dong Shi from a scholar into a bully in a rotten village. He did everything he could for money. This aroused public anger. In forty-four years of Wanli, tens of thousands of people besieged Dong Qichang's house and set it on fire! This paper focuses on the art of calligraphy and painting, so I won't elaborate here.
The above picture shows a portrait of Dong Qichang painted by the famous Shanghai painter Xia Baoyuan and a schematic diagram of some properties in Songjiang Town (below).
When I visit this exhibition, I can feel that some viewers are from other places, and many viewers can experience and discuss the subtle differences between the front and back of a work. Indeed, in addition to techniques such as structure, rhythm, ink color and slow brushwork, China's traditional calligraphy and painting also has something to do with the author's emotion when he creates. The most outstanding representative work is Yan Zhenqing's magnificent running script "Sacrifice to My Nephew" now on display in Japan.
This is the Northern Song Dynasty? Song Huizong's hand-painted Bamboo Bird Atlas is now in the Metropolitan Museum. The reason why this volume came to this exhibition all the way is because of Dong Qichang more than 300 years ago? Maybe? I saw this painting at a friend's house. The author paid special attention to this painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art many years ago?
Wang Xizhi's travels are now at Princeton University. However, it must be specially stated that this is a copy of the double hook ink shadow in the Tang Dynasty, not the original. Because no original works of Wang Xizhi have been handed down. Even so, this work is still a rare treasure for calligraphy lovers. ?
The picture above shows five generations? Dong Yuan, a painter from the Southern Tang Dynasty, "Waiting for Crossing at the Xiajing Mountain Pass", this Tibetan painting was specially exhibited by Liaoning Museum, because Dong Yuan's painting style had a great influence on Dong Qichang. In this painting, we can see that Dong Yuan painted the texture of the soft soil mud mountain with the peak on the side of the pen, which has a completely different taste from the stone mountain in the Song Dynasty Landscape Painting Dragon.
This Atlas of Eight Scenes in Autumn is regarded as Dong Qichang's masterpiece, which was written by Dong Shi at the age of 66. At that time, the situation that Dong Shi aroused public anger and burned down the house soon subsided. Let's not talk about the brushwork in the painting here. As far as composition is concerned, we can say that there are some common artistic laws in the world?
The above picture is a large-screen digital demonstration platform built by the Shanghai World Expo in this exhibition. The high-definition pictures of Dong Shi's works are magnified several times and displayed on the screen. In particular, the local details of Dong Shi's "Smoke River Pile" at the Shanghai World Expo and Dong Shi's "Smoke River Pile" at the National Palace Museum in Taipei are compared to illustrate that the Taipei version is suspected to be a fake.
The author's impression at the scene is that there are indeed many differences in details between the two, but the pixels of the picture taken by the Taipei version are too low, which is very affected when the audience compares the two. Even if there are differences between the two, we can't completely say which is true and which is false. It is not surprising that there are so many fakes of Dong Shi's paintings and calligraphy in the world now.