In Han Xizai's "The Night Banquet", the first paragraph highlights the bright color with dark color, the second paragraph is opposite to light and shade, and two tones are used in the middle to make the overall color live harmoniously. The third paragraph "rest between banquets" is divided into a lot of white and black, and the fourth paragraph uses bright colors to express the brightness of colors. The fifth paragraph, "The banquet is finished", has equal colors and uniform tones, which stagger the sense of color space of the superficial phenomenon.
From ancient times to the present, meticulous painting pays attention to color matching. Color is compatible with ink, and light color can better express the beauty of lines. Meticulous painting has colors such as stone green, azurite, vermilion, ochre, yellow, white and ink, which is a combination of indifferent and heavy colors. Han Xizai's "The Night Banquet" is rich in colors and harmonious, with exquisite and elegant workmanship. Influenced by meticulous painting in Sui and Tang Dynasties, the picture has a strong sense of space.
Han Xizai appeared in the picture five times, with vivid images and delicate facial makeup. Black clothes and furniture contrast with the maid's bright clothes, and the colors are dazzling. Received a strong and harmonious effect. Dye your face with light ochre, then coat it with ochre and clam powder, and then use clam powder to show the highlights of your face.
The story behind Han Xizai's banquet;
Han Xizai's Night Banquet seems to be a grand banquet, but in fact it is a spy war meeting comparable to Mission Impossible. At that time, the Southern Tang Dynasty was threatened by the Song Dynasty, and the situation was critical. Li Houzhu Li Yu wanted to reuse Han Xizai, but he was suspicious of him. So two court painters, Gu and Zhou Wenju, were sent to be spies.
In order to protect himself, Han Xizai had planned to let his life slip away and went on strike every night. Han Xizai, a calligrapher in the late Southern Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, was good at literature and cultivated in calligraphy, painting and music. He was an official with political vision and ambition at that time.
When the Southern Tang Dynasty ruled, the country declined, and failure was a foregone conclusion. At this time, Li Yu, the late ruler, wanted to take Han Xizai as the prime minister, while Han Xizai was completely pessimistic and disappointed about the future of the Southern Tang Dynasty, deliberately leading a dissolute life and storing a wide range of ci poems to avoid being appointed.
He often entertains guests at home in an informal way, far exceeding the norms of ordinary aristocratic bureaucrats. Emperor Li Yu wanted to know about his private life, so he sent a court painter Gu to visit Han Xizai in the evening, quietly observed and studied hard, and drew a picture of Han Xizai's banquet.