Yang Muqing's Painting and Calligraphy Works and Comments

The original ecological freehand brushwork landscape painting advocated by Yang Muqing, from composition to pen, to pen and ink and techniques, pays attention to a rough and bold style, expresses feelings in nature, reflects human feelings in clumsy exaggeration, yearns for life with a simple heart, and strives for a frank and open feeling, which is different from the delicately outlined mountains and rivers in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the freehand brushwork of mountains and rivers painted by literati in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Commentator Yun: In his calligraphy, good grass is flowing, good quietness is Zen-based, good antiquity is interesting in quietness and old age, and it is meaningful. The beauty of good calligraphy lies in the atmosphere, dignity and elegance. It is a matter of "calligraphy" with sensitive thinking and good at blending. It can combine the charm of the "two kings" in Wei and Jin Dynasties, the solemnity and grandeur of Qin Zhuan and Han Li, and the ancient and clumsy legacy of Beibei Cliff with my own understanding and self-study of China traditional culture.

Critics also said: His paintings have the thoughts and spirits of Badashanren, Xu Wei, Shi Tao, Shan Li, Wu Changshuo, Huang, Pu Hua, Master, Li Keran, Shilu, Pan Tianshou, Fang Jizhong and Cui Zifan, and have the color meanings of Schiller, Monet, Van Gogh and Wu Guanzhong, which is a link between the past and the future, and opens a precedent of "Northern Landscape". In simplicity, naturalness, generosity and profundity, it shows the specific spirit of China's pen and ink and the perfect demand for color, which inspires and shocks people with "original ecological freehand brushwork". Moreover, his paintings are often engraved with self-made poems or paintings, artistic criticism, exhortations and other words, so that people can read them, live up to their time and have their hearts.