Zhang Daqian, a native of Neijiang, Sichuan, originally from Panyu, Guangdong Province, was born on May 1, 1899 in Anliangli, a suburb of Neijiang City, Sichuan Province. He was a painter and calligrapher who splashed ink in China.
What is Zhang Daqian good at painting?
Zhang Daqian is good at painting lotus flowers, which can be called the first painting of lotus flowers in China since Badashanren and Shi Tao. He is known as "the pinnacle of painting lotus flowers in ancient and modern times". Zhang Daqian loves lotus flowers and often praises them, and he travels around and sketchs. Even in his own yard, he often grows more lotus flowers.
Zhang Daqian painted thousands of lotus works in his life, and there are rules not only in the reverse of painting style, but also in inscription and printing. He has printed "Thirty-six vicious autumn colors" and "Leng Xiang flies on the poem" on his lotus paintings. There are many topics, such as "the gull world is cool", "Jiang Fei takes a bath", "The wind in the water temple is full of fragrance", "The leisure in the pond means that the surface of the pool is full of gods", "The clouds break through the moon to make a shadow", "The water is full of powder" and "The wind of a gentleman is as clear as a clam". Among other reasons, he believes that "Chinese painting focuses on pen and ink, and painting lotus is the basic skill of using pen and ink."
Zhang Daqian's masterpiece of lotus painting is "Zhang Daqian's Lotus Picture", which combines many artistic techniques, integrates Zhang Daqian's artistic essence better and skillfully applies it, and copies the beautiful posture of lotus flowers with incomparable authenticity. The whole painting is full of composition, dense and elegant, bold and unconstrained with a pen, fresh and elegant in style, as if heralding the birth of a new life, with a strong and vigorous upward trend.