Wu Changshuo is best at freehand brushwork flowers, and is greatly influenced by Xu Wei and Badashan people. Because of its profound knowledge of calligraphy and seal cutting, it integrates calligraphy and seal cutting, knife cutting, composition and posture into painting, forming a unique painting style full of golden stone flavor. He himself said, "The strength of my life is that I can draw by writing." He often writes Mei Lan with a brush and grapes with weeds. The flowers and trees and flower stones we made are bold in brushwork, transparent in paper back, unrestrained in vertical and horizontal directions, magnificent in layout, almost sketchy in composition, preferring to adopt the pattern of "zhi" and "female", or oblique, combining reality with reality, with prominent themes. I like Zhao's colors. I like to use rich and contrasting colors, especially western red, strong and bright colors. Ren Bonian, a famous painter at that time, marveled at Wu Changshuo's painting with Shi Guwen's seal cutting, and predicted that he would become the mainstay of painting. Wu Changshuo painted Cao Zhuan Shu in calligraphy; The lines are extremely deep. Although from the perspective of object painting, the texture of its lines does not seem to be rich and practical, it is precisely because of abandoning the fetters of form that Wu Changshuo's paintings entered the temple of "meaning", thus forming a "freehand brushwork" expression that influenced modern China painting circles.
The theme of Wu Changshuo's painting is mainly flowers, and he learned painting late. He can only draw people after 40. In the early stage, he studied under Ren Yi, then under Zhao's painting method, and learned from Xu Wei, Yang Zhou Eight Eccentrics and other painting methods, which benefited a lot. He loves plum blossom very much, and often paints with plum blossom, using the brushwork of writing big seal script and cursive script. He has both ink plum and red plum, and the water and color of red plum paintings are just right. It is red and purple, with smooth pen and ink and full of interest. There was once a poem "Bitter railway people know each other", which used plum blossoms to express one's cynical mood. I also like making orchids. In order to highlight the clean and lonely character of orchids, I like to paint with thick ink or light ink and seal script brushwork, which is strong and powerful. Draw bamboo poles lightly with light ink, and draw leaves with thick ink, with varied density, or with pine, plum, stone and so on. Become a "double clear" or "three friends" to express their feelings. Chrysanthemum is also the subject he often paints. He painted chrysanthemums with rocks, or inserted tall ancient bottles to match the situation of chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemums are mostly yellow, or black chrysanthemums and red chrysanthemums. Mo Ju painted with Jiao Mo, and the chrysanthemum leaves splashed a lot, with different shades and distinct layers. In his later years, he painted more peonies, blooming brilliantly, bright carmine, containing more water, and then compared with the dense branches and leaves, it was full of vitality. Lotus, daffodils, conifers and cypresses are also often painted themes. Bamboo shoots, vegetables, gourds, pumpkins, peaches, loquats, pomegranates and other fruits and vegetables are also painted one by one, full of life. The works are vigorous and powerful with color and ink, and the really interesting poems and free and easy calligraphy inscribed on the paintings, with simple seals, make the poetry and painting seal into one furnace, which has a great influence on modern flower-and-bird painting (see the color picture "Photo courtesy of Qing Dynasty" (Qing Dynasty)).
▲ Painting works
Tianzhu Flower, Wisteria, Mo Hetu, Apricot Flower, Twelve Screen Flowers, Plum Blossoms, Four Screen Flowers, Peony, Shi Lan, Turquoise, Flowers, Wisteria, Miscellaneous Album (one of them), Two Red Plums, Roses, Reed and Oranges, Autumn Beauty, Three Thousand Years Results, People, Three Thousand Years Results, Zhi Tao, Immortality, Shi Mei.