Dong Shouping's Calligraphy Appreciation
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The Life of the Characters in Dong Shouping's Works
Dong Shouping was born into a family of poets and calligraphers. Dong Shouping's great-grandfather Dong was a famous calligrapher in the middle of Qing Dynasty. His grandfather Dong Zhihuan was an academician of Qing Dynasty and was famous for his poetry and calligraphy. Dong Jia has a rich collection of cultural relics, calligraphy and painting, which is famous overseas. Dong Shouping was influenced by his family since he was a child. He loved painting and calligraphy and taught himself. After painting flowers at first, he studied landscapes, especially the scenery of Meizhu and Huangshan, and became famous all over the world. 193 1 As soon as the calligraphy and painting came out, it became famous in Beijing and was deeply loved by Chinese and foreign people. After 1938, he was engaged in painting and calligraphy creation in Xi and Chengdu. After the founding of New China, he worked in Rong Baozhai, engaged in editing, creating, appraising and training professionals. Numerous works have been selected for large-scale art exhibitions at home and abroad or published in professional newspapers. He was invited to visit abroad for many times and held a solo exhibition. His publications include Dong Shouping Painting, Dong Shouping Painting and Calligraphy, Dong Shouping, Master of Painting and Calligraphy, Dong Shouping Art Notes, Rong Baozhai Painting and Calligraphy, etc. Dong Shouping's painting collection, etc. Representative works include Clouds in Huangshan Mountain, Herringbone Waterfall, Dadu River, Huangshan Mountain after Rain, Wind and Rain in Huangshan Mountain, Morning in Erlang Mountain, Loushanguan, Zhu Mo, Mo Mei, Wind Bamboo, Fierce Festival Facing the Wind and so on. In the same year, when Deng Ying Chao visited North Korea, he presented his paintings to the North Korean government. Many of his paintings and calligraphy works have spread overseas, especially in Japan and Hong Kong. Dong Shouping's works are not only collected in Dong Shouping Memorial Hall, but also in major art galleries in China.
Famous contemporary painter and calligrapher. Born into a family of poets and calligraphers. Dong Jia has a large collection of cultural relics, paintings and calligraphy, which is very famous overseas. Influenced by his family, Dong Shouping liked painting and calligraphy since childhood. Dong Shouping is good at painting plum and bamboo, and vermilion and red plum are stunts; When writing bamboo, the pen and ink are concise, vigorous and majestic, and the composition is ethereal, with calligraphy as the purpose, rich and simple. Mosong is full of vitality, vigorous and simple. Most of the landscape paintings are based on the old pine of Huangshan Mountain, regardless of the shape of peaks and stones, and seek the unity of the overall charm, enjoying the elegant names of "Dong Mei", "Shou Pingzhu" and "Huangshan Giant" in the painting world. Besides his works in Dong Shouping Memorial Hall, Dong Shouping's works are also collected by major art galleries in China. His calligraphy art is full of personality, vigorous and vigorous, simple and natural, with both form and spirit, unrestrained and uninhibited, which shows his noble spiritual realm, profound knowledge, upright bearing and magnanimity. His works have been exhibited at home and abroad for many times and collected by art galleries and museums at home and abroad. Won the "Fuji Fine Arts Medal".
Analysis of Dong Shouping's Works
Ingenious and unique
Famous painters who are famous for painting bamboo are not uncommon, but Dong Shouping's style is unique and ingenious. Known as the style of writing, Gu Anzhi's rigor, the complexity of summer, Li's simplicity, elegance and Shi Tao's simplicity, although their respective styles are different in overall appearance, if you guess carefully, there are still predecessors to find and trace. Appreciating the bamboo in Dong Shouping's works, it is difficult to tell its exact origin, but its style is distinctive and does not violate ancient laws. There is a saying that artistic creation is "thoughtful", and Dong Shouping has his unique views on it. He believed in the beginning of creation. Visually, a blank sheet of paper has its own layout, that is, "there is a plan in mind." But when the first stroke falls, the painter should "do nothing", then follow the trend, let nature take its course, don't be bound by its success, but express what he thinks in one go. Therefore, it is appropriate for artists to call bamboo in Dong Shouping "Shou Pingzhu".
Two meanings
The ancients called painting bamboo "writing bamboo". A word "writing" has two meanings: first, the brushwork of drawing bamboo is the closest to China's calligraphy, and it is impossible to draw bamboo without a solid foundation in calligraphy. Appreciating Bamboo In Dong Shouping's works, the word "strength" runs through the whole picture. Whether it is the indomitable spirit or the local details in the painting, it is full of strength, and the resolute brushwork shows his transcendental skill in calligraphy. Although this "Ink Bamboo Map" belongs to Wan Fan's sketch, each stroke is so calm and solid, without any hesitation and carelessness. Even the bamboo tips outlined in light ink are tall and straight, vigorous and heroic. When you start writing, you are writing. Dong Shouping painted bamboo, which is the best interpretation of Zhao Mengfu's "eight skills of writing bamboo whiskers".
philosophic thinking
Dong Shouping has developed the habit of studying and painting for half a day since he was an artist when he was young. He is well-read and knowledgeable. After studying in the Economics Department of Nankai University, he studied Oriental philosophy, and was good at combining China's extensive and profound ancient art system with modern expression techniques. Therefore, the layout of his works is full of philosophy and contains profound oriental traditional philosophy. He can organically unify various opposing contradictions, such as dryness and wetness, density, length and shade, and present them in a work harmoniously, and finally achieve the ideal situation of harmony between man and nature. The process of painting bamboo is the process of how to harmonize the figurative beauty and abstract beauty, that is, the process of the painter himself and the bamboo he painted. People are bamboo, and bamboo is human. We should not only show bamboo, but also turn bamboo into people. This simple philosophy and aesthetic concept has become the distinctive feature of Dong Shouping's works. Collection of foreign art galleries and museums. Won the "Fuji Fine Arts Medal".
Personality charm
The charm of Mr Dong Shouping lies in his noble personality. He is indifferent to fame and fortune, honest and clean, and helpful to others, which is a habit formed by Dong Shouping since he was a child. 1923, when Dong Lao was studying in Beijing Esperanto School, he planned to go back to Shanxi to visit relatives in the summer vacation. Because he met a classmate in yenching university, he couldn't go back to his hometown in Sichuan for lack of travel expenses, so he decided to give up his plan to go home and visit relatives. During his 60-year life, he participated in various voluntary exhibitions, pen meetings, charitable disaster relief activities and donated countless calligraphy and paintings. The greatest thing is his patriotism. 194 1 He will donate the proceeds from the Sichuan Art Exhibition to support the Anti-Japanese War. In his later years, Chen, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, often asked him to paint to promote tea culture. Most of them were taken away in a hurry before the ink was dry. Instead of being bored, I felt happy and highly praised Chen's power style. During the period of 1994, a once-in-a-century flood occurred in South China, and Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao and other six units launched a charity sale of famous paintings and calligraphy for disaster relief. When Dong Shouping heard about it, he drew a four-foot bamboo named "Wind and Rain Bamboo" and donated it to charity sale. At that event, * * * 207 painters and sculptors donated 200 works, with a total charity sale of HK$ 2.409 million, while Dong Shouping's Wind and Rain Bamboo was subscribed by Ms. Su Baopeiqing, the daughter of Bao Yugang, the chairman of Sublimation Service Co., Ltd., for HK$ 290,000, which was the most charity sale.
Dong Lao has always loved and cared about the development of cultural undertakings in his hometown. As early as 1950s and 1960s, he donated dozens of precious ancient calligraphy and paintings to Shanxi Provincial Museum twice. Among them are the picture books of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ink-and-wash version of Red Golden Bamboo Map drawn by North Korean painter Li Tan in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, and the picture of touching knees and drinking in Han Dynasty drawn by Qing Dynasty painter for his great-grandfather Dong. 1983, he once again donated 200 fine paintings and calligraphy he created to his hometown. In his hometown, in order to commemorate Dong Shouping's artistic achievements, a long-term collection exhibition of Dong Shouping's works was built in Jinci Park, a scenic spot on the outskirts of Taiyuan, with the strong cooperation of relevant departments of Taiyuan and Japanese friends. This art museum is located in the historic jinci museum, to the east of Jinxi Academy, with a building area of 1.400 square meters. Dong Shouping wrote in the book "Donation of Calligraphy and Painting Works": "My descendants and relatives are not allowed to ask for, lend or look at it under any excuse; My descendants and relatives are not allowed to participate in the management of Dong Shouping Art Museum. These words fully demonstrated Dong Shouping's integrity. He is one of the few masters of calligraphy and painting in modern China. Even under the impact of market economy, he still lived a clean and honest life and spent his life perfectly.
Dong Shouping's artistic achievements.
Mr. Dong Shouping is not only a painting and calligraphy artist, but also a well-deserved philosopher and aesthetician. He is a monument in the history of painting and calligraphy in China with comprehensive techniques and profound cultivation.
He devoted himself to painting and calligraphy in the vicissitudes of decades, leaving thousands of historical masterpieces, which have always been quiet and clear. His painting style is vigorous and simple, with precise layout, fresh and elegant, taking nature as a teacher without violating the ancient law, and has outstanding personal innovation in style. His paintings are inspired by nature, starting with sketching, with vivid brushwork and high artistic generalization, which not only seeks similarity, but also emphasizes the spirit of objects. Cinnabar and red plum are stunts; Ink bamboo is elegant and graceful, concise and magnificent, with ethereal composition and unique style; His landscape is very famous, mostly taking the old pine of Huangshan Qifeng as the theme. The picture scroll is not limited to the shape of the peak stone, but seeks the unity of the overall charm; Mosong is full of vitality, vigorous and simple. His works are known as "Winter Plum", "Shou Pingzhu" and "Huangshan Giant" in the painting world, which embodies the harmonious unity of philosophy and aesthetics, perfectly reproduces the essence of harmonious coexistence between man and nature in literati paintings, with both the natural artistic conception of poetry and painting and a modest and mellow literati painting temperament and Confucian demeanor. It shows his noble spiritual realm, profound knowledge, upright bearing and magnanimity.