Huang Yu was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang in 1865 and died in 1955. He is good at landscapes, flowers and sketches, but he became famous relatively late. After the age of 50, the painting style gradually became realistic, and after the age of 80, it really formed the familiar "black, dense, thick and heavy" painting style. Huang's landscape painting in his later years was profound, magnificent and shocking, which made China's landscape painting rise to a supreme level.
In the history of modern painting in China, there is a saying that "Northern Qi refers to Qi Baishi, a Beijing flower and bird painter, and Southern Huang refers to Huang, a Zhejiang painter". They are juxtaposed by the art world, which shows that Huang's artistic skill and achievements are extraordinary.
A Brief Introduction to Huang's Autumn in the Mountains
This painting is 122.8 cm long and 48.8 cm wide. Now it is in Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House. At first glance, this picture shows overlapping mountains, sparse trees and clouds. The foreground is a hillside, Gu Song is lush, and there are several bungalows, which are strewn at random. There is a four-corner pavilion behind the garden, and a person sits in it. There are many trees on the mountainside, and the branches are oblique, towering into the mountains and standing alone. On the left is a vast lake. Two sailboats are sailing downwind between the two mountains, lined up and the water is dry, which makes the mountains and rivers have a close relationship of mutual beauty.
Although this picture is high and steep, with winding mountain roads, dense forests and many levels, it is still beautiful and organized. The idea is plain and strange, close to its essence, far from its potential, unconventional, dry and moist, virtual and real, complex but not chaotic. This is inseparable from the painter's long-term artistic practice, which has brought his painting art to a perfect state. This painting can also fully reflect his artistic style of "lush mountains and lush vegetation".