Zhao Shuru has been fond of painting and calligraphy since she was five years old, especially painting horses, so she is called a child prodigy. In 1881, Zhao Shuru painted Zhao Shuru when he was 8 years old. His father gave a big banquet for guests during the Spring Festival. Among the guests was an elder, Uncle Lin Ying. I heard that Uncle Ru could draw horses at an early age and asked him to come out to meet him and perform in public. Uncle and mother were ordered to draw a picture of a galloping horse of Shenjun, and the guests in the seat were very surprised and admired. Uncle Lin Ying was very appreciative of Zhao Shuru. The next day, he invited a matchmaker to go to Zhao's house and betrothed his daughter to uncle Ru. Zhao Shuru married the Lins' daughter at the age of 17, and the husband and wife loved each other. Drawing a horse leads to a wife, which is a much-told story of Zhao Shuru.
Zhao Shuru's artistic attainments also benefit from the Lin family. His father-in-law, Lin Yingshu, loves epigraphy and calligraphy, and his collection is extremely rich. Weng Xu and his wife are like-minded. Zhao Shuru visited the fine works in his father-in-law's house, devoted himself to studying the monuments of Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and painstakingly studied epigraphy, calligraphy and painting. Within three years, he had achieved remarkable results. Zhao Shuru is good at drawing horses, mainly inheriting the painting methods of Li Gonglin in the Song Dynasty and Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty, and drawing lessons from the western painting method of Lang Shining, a court painter in the early Qing Dynasty, and gradually forming his own style. During Zhao Shuru's life, his paintings were only a hundred frames, which was not productive. However, his paintings were few and refined, and he was known as "a horse with ten golden fields". In 193s Shanghai, Zhao Shuru's pommel horse, Wu Hufan's landscape, Feng Chaoran's figures and Wu Daiqiu's flowers were known as "four stunts".
The landscape flowers and feathered cordyceps painted by Zhao Shuru are also interesting, paying attention to form and not sticking to the old pattern. At that time, people commented on Zhao Shuru's paintings: "Considering the long sleep and the waves, the landscape is absolutely like Yuan Xian, and the flowers and birds are also Song Fa, which is rich and magnificent." Zhao Shuru's well-known paintings include Three Horses, Drinking Horses with Gaoliu, Traveling in Guanshan, Painting of a Master in Tongyin, Painting of Foil on a New Silkworm, Painting of Grass in Ma Si, Painting of Five Horses, Painting of Axis of Tianma and so on. Nowadays, his works are rare treasures, which are scattered among folk collectors.
What is even more commendable is Zhao Shuru's seal cutting. He is both the leader of Zhejiang and Anhui schools, winning the essence of his predecessor Zhao Zhiqian, and studying ancient epigraphy, creating a beautiful and quiet atmosphere, which was praised by people as the first in 2 years. Zhao Shuru was active at the beginning of the sea seal altar, which was the time when Wu Changshuo's reputation was in full swing. Sha Menghai said in "Printing Words in Shacun Village": "After 3 years' push and change, it was thrilling and unprecedented to benefit Wu Yuelao (Wu Changshuo) and peace to Zhao Shulao (Zhao Shuru).
Zhao Shuru is also very knowledgeable about the history of seal cutting. When inscribing the printed spectrum of Indian friends, I always write down the relevant knowledge and my own incisive opinions, such as the origin of seal cutting, the origin of seals, the collection of printed spectrum, etc., which can be counted in order to teach future generations. Zhao Shuru's calligraphy
Since the age of 51, Zhao Shuru has been burning incense and sitting quietly at dawn on New Year's Day, and then he has been engraved with the year. It never stopped until 22 years before his death. At the age of 68, he published six volumes of "Two Crossbows and Fine Houses", with 3 buttons engraved by himself, which is a representative work. It is understood that Zhao Shuru carved about a thousand buttons in his life. Representative ones are: the seals of "Dilei Lu", "Special Health Medicine", "Zhao Du Lou" and "Ting Tao Xuan" in Chinese and white; Zhu Wenyou's seals such as Yunyi Bookstore, An He Shi, Broken Sticker Zhai, Seven Sisters, Eight Sisters and Nine Brothers, and On the Moon are all excellent works. Zhao Shuru is an all-rounder who knows everything about epigraphy, calligraphy and painting. Zhao's calligraphy is eclectic, and the couplets written by Xiao Zhuan are beautiful. He usually admonishes students and sons and nephews to copy the paintings and calligraphy of historical sites, and to be similar in shape and charm. It is best to transport the loom and show a brand-new look. Zhao Shuru's writings are few, and his poems are even rarer, but there are occasional quatrains in the scrolls, which is quite leisurely.
In addition, Zhao Shuru is an excellent antique collector. His study is called "Two Crossbows", which is the crossbow machine of Han Yanxi and Wei Jingyao. It is a crossbow left by Shu Han and an ancient cultural relic in Zhao Jiazhen. Because of his rich collection and deep experience, he is also very discriminating. His appraisal is highly praised by famous experts at home and abroad. Born into a family of bureaucrats, Zhao Shuru also worked as a junior official for several times in the 1 years after the age of 28. However, Zhao Shuru's temperament is indifferent, which can be seen from his love for stone calligraphy and painting. Officialdom is not what he is keen on. After the age of 38, Zhao Shuru disappeared from the officialdom and moved to Shanghai with his family. He enjoyed dancing and making ink and made a living by cutting calligraphy and painting. In the meantime, he made many friends, such as Zhang Daqian in Sichuan, Gao Zhenxiao in Yinxian and other famous people at that time, who were all happy to meet him and respected him as a master of epigraphy.
in p>1912, Zhao Shuru edited six volumes of Chinese-Indian rhyme supplement. This period is the golden age of his art. People from all over the world came to seek ink and seal, and people who came to visit for advice or worship followed. Among them, Pinghu Chen Julai, Yongjia Fang Jiekan, Wuxian Pan Zi Xie, etc., won the teacher's attention. Sha Menghai, a famous calligrapher, once respected Zhao Shuru as a teacher. According to the Records of Zhao's Same Family, Zhao Shuru has about 6 students.
In teaching students, Zhao Shuru disapproves of students simply inheriting teachers' experience, but advocates that students should establish the research focus according to their respective endowments and qualities. Many of its students have become talents, which also proves that Zhao Shuru's educational method is very successful. Looking back on the 2th century, Sha Menghai, Fang Jiekan, Chen Julai and Ye Luyuan, who were all under Zhao Shuru's leadership, are unique in their respective achievements and artistic features, and Chen Julai's achievements in seal cutting are even more shine on you than blue.
on Zhao Shuru's 6th and 7th birthdays, her relatives, friends and disciples held two birthday celebrations. These two birthday celebrations are not only birthday banquets, but also a big gathering of many celebrities in the art world. In 1942 and 1944, Zhao Shuru led students to hold "Zhao Shuru's Stone Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition" in Shanghai, which was a great event in the art world.
In p>1945, at the age of 72, Zhao Shuru died at home on March 17th of that year because of a cold and pneumonia.