Wen Tong was a famous painter and poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is called Mr. Little, a layman. He is good at painting bamboo and founded Huzhou Bamboo School, known as Mr. Shishi. Wen Tong not only made great achievements in painting, but also made outstanding achievements in poetry and prose, and was praised by Mi Fei, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo and others.
Introduction to wentong
Wen Tong/Wen (1018-1079), the word, is called Mr. Shishi, a smiling layman. A native of Yongtai County (now Yanting County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province), Zizhou County, Northern Song Dynasty. Famous painters and poets. In the first year of your tour (1049), he was a scholar, moved to Dr. Taichang, studied in Jixian County, and served as an official in Qiongzhou, Dayi, Lingzhou and Yangzhou (now Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province). In the early years of Yuanfeng, Wen Tong took office in Huzhou (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang), and was known as Wen Huzhou. In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), Wen Tong died in Zhou Chen (now Huaiyang County, Henan Province) at the age of 6 1. He and Su Shi are cousins, famous for their knowledge, good at poetry and calligraphy, and highly respected by Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang and others.
The main achievements of wentong wentong calligraphy
Wentong is famous for being good at drawing bamboo. He pays attention to experience and advocates planning before writing. He painted bamboo leaves, creating a method with thick ink as the surface and light ink as the back. Scholars made special effects to form mohists, known as "Mohist Bamboo Sect" and "Wenhuzhou Bamboo Sect". The idiom "have answers" originated from his idea of painting bamboo.
I saw the characteristics of Wen Tong's ink and bamboo paintings. It can be said that the appearance of works like Wen Tong is one of the signs of the rise of literati painting. Wen Tong advocates that painting bamboo should first be "well-thought-out". Write bamboo leaves, create deep ink for the surface, light ink for the back.
Ink bamboo is still a new painting art in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is still related to the fashionable and realistic times at that time. Therefore, there is no "intermediary" or "claw" leaf skimming, and there is no calligraphy Lian Bi between bamboo joints. The whole painting method is between "painting" and "writing", which is different from the bamboo painting of scholars in Yuan Dynasty and later.
Wen Tong highly praised Mei Yao Chen in his poetry creation, and his landscape poems are more distinctive.