Dong Qichang was born in A.D. 1555, with the name Xuanzai,No. Sibai andNo. Xiangguang layman. He was from Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, South Zhili in Ming Dynasty, which is now Songjiang District of Shanghai. He was born in a scholarly family, and his family has been farming for generations. However, Dong Qichang's father still attached great importance to his son's education and invited a tutor to give him a good education since he was a child. Dong Qichang is a famous artist with high attainments in calligraphy, painting, poetry and literature.
His achievements in painting are particularly outstanding, especially in landscape painting. His painting style is fresh and beautiful, and his artistic conception is far-reaching, which is deeply loved and respected by people. In addition, Dong Qichang also put forward many incisive opinions and arguments on the theory of calligraphy and painting, which had an important impact on the development of calligraphy and painting art in later generations.
Dong Qichang was a respected cultural celebrity in the late Ming Dynasty. His outstanding achievements in calligraphy, painting and poetry, as well as the influence of his theory of calligraphy and painting on that time and later generations, made him an important figure in the history of China fine arts.
The main influence of Dong Qichang
Dong Qichang is known as "Xing Zhang Mi Dong" in calligraphy, that is, he is tied with Linyi Xing Dong, Zhang Jinjiang Ruitu and Xu Tianmi Wanzhong; There is a saying in the painting that the south is east and the north is rice. Mo Shilong and Chen Jiru advocated the theory of "North-South School", that is, the landscape paintings of "courtyard style" and "literati painting" were divided into two schools. There are countless paintings and calligraphy works created by Dong Qichang in his life, among which the paintings and poems of recent people are an important part.
"Reading thousands of books" as he said in "Essays on Painting a Zen Room" means that one must learn from tradition and the ancients if he wants to become an artist. At the age of 65,438+07, he wrote Yan Zhenqing's Many Pagodas when he began to learn calligraphy. At the age of 22, he studied painting with Huang, and later with other painting schools. This practice of learning from the ancients lasted for 80 years and accompanied him all his life. He widely absorbed the strengths of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and learned from others, which made his paintings and calligraphy achieve artistic achievements beyond the ancients.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Dong Qichang.