A painter surnamed Zhang

Zhang Hong (after A.D. 1577- 1652) was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Good at painting landscapes, rewriting life, sharp brushwork, moist ink and wash, mountains and valleys, valleys in late autumn, ancient meaning of Yuan people; He drew stripes of dye on the stone face, which is his characteristic. He can also draw freehand brushwork figures, with good form and spirit. He is the backbone of Wumen painting circle in the late Ming Dynasty and is highly respected by Wumen literati. Handed down works: Cool Map of Western Hills, collected by Zhejiang Provincial Museum; The hanging sword in Yanling, acrobatic games, fighting, Nagato stopping the boat and Xiting autumn are now in the Palace Museum. "Floating Blue Warming" Guangdong Provincial Museum; Lanting Giarto, collected in the Capital Museum, etc.

His paintings inherited the style and characteristics of Wu Pai's literati paintings, created on the basis of sketching, learned from foreign teachers, gained spiritual source, and embodied the spiritual realm of the other in his paintings. International academic circles say that Zhang Hong's landscape painting is exquisite and rare in the world. He once climbed a mountain to draw a bird's eye view, which was even more rare at that time. The overall picture of his paintings is profound and elegant, the rocks are hard to knock, and the water is clear and trickling down, which injects spirituality into calligraphy and painting and makes people feel separated from the world. His landscape paintings set off an extraordinary atmosphere by rendering, giving people an immersive feeling, as if they were in a picture scroll. The picture is fresh and elegant, the atmosphere is harmonious, the mountains and peaks are strange, the ancient trees are dense, the breeze is flying, and the artistic conception is ethereal and clear.