What are the characteristics of Xu Wei's works?

Xu Wei, an outstanding painter in Ming Dynasty, had a rough life. Xu Wei created many famous works involving a wide range in the middle and old age. Let's have a look.

What are Xu Wei's works? Finally, let's appreciate Xu Mowei's grape map and analyze what kind of person Xu Wei is. What are the characteristics of Xu Wei's works? In literature, Xu Wei's creative content covers a wide range, including poetry and drama, but no matter what kind of works, Xu Wei's creative mode is different from the previous creative mode of this type of works. Each of his works shows his own unique characteristics. As far as Xu Wei's prose is concerned, the most famous is his epitaph.

Ming Dynasty Master Xu Wei's Painting and Calligraphy Works

And his poetry is to inject his true feelings into his works. In terms of drama, Xu Wei wrote several plays, which showed different feelings, including his views on some phenomena in real life. Because the way he adopted was different from the past, he opened up a new model, which was of great significance to the drama world.

In terms of calligraphy and painting, Xu Wei's calligraphy broke through the way of predecessors and changed the style of calligraphy, which not only made calligraphy lively, but also full of strength. As for Xu Wei's calligraphy, later generations think that Xu Wei not only writes calligraphy, but also writes poetry and composition, and at the same time can draw pictures. The reason for this is that Xu Wei often combines calligraphy and painting in one work. It has formed the characteristics that there are paintings in books and books in paintings.

Appreciation of Xu Wei's ink-and-wash grape pictures is the representative work of Xu Wei's ink-and-wash paintings. The upper part of this painting is Xu Wei's inscription, from which we can appreciate Xu Wei's momentum in calligraphy, and the lower part is the main body of the painting, namely grapes.

Xu Wei's representative works of ink-and-wash grapes

Simply draw grapes with ink, and the leaves and fruit grapes use the same color, just like the grapes are hidden in the leaves in reality. Xu Wei casually painted the hanging vines, which looked at sixes and sevens, but it was very organized in the chaos. He used the originality of ink painting to create the feeling of grapes dripping, and with his poems, his works have more momentum and feeling.

From Xu's grape paintings, we can know the characteristics of his calligraphy and painting. Xu Wei likes to combine calligraphy with painting. Irregular fonts are as free as grapes that grow irregularly. From this, we can also see Xu Wei's inner free and easy thoughts.

Xu Wei combines his unique painting method with different calligraphy methods to create his own painting style, which makes his paintings more interesting.

Although Xu Wei's life experience was rather bumpy, his creation in literature, calligraphy and painting was unique at that time, creating a unique place belonging to Xu Wei's style. Xu's Grape Map is his masterpiece of painting and calligraphy.