[Tang Bohu]: He is good at landscapes, figures, flowers and birds. I studied painting with Chen Zhou in my early years. Later, he learned from Li Tang and Liu Songnian and changed them. He drew some mountains and cut them down with a small axe. He is magnificent, exquisite in brushwork, sparse in layout and elegant and delicate in style. Figure paintings are mostly ladies' paintings and historical story paintings, which inherit the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with clear lines, gorgeous and elegant colors, beautiful posture and accurate modeling. He is also a freehand brushwork figure. His pen is simple and interesting.
His flower and bird paintings are good at freehand brushwork in ink and wash, free and easy, and elegant in style. In addition to painting, Tang Yin also paid attention to calligraphy, taking Zhao Meng as the method. His calligraphy style is strange and handsome. Tang Yin also made great achievements in literature. His poems are full of travel, paintings and sentimental works, expressing his wild and aloof feelings and his feelings about the desolate world. He writes slang and common sayings in his poems, which are easy to understand and simple in language.
Zhu Zhishan: His family studies. He is good at calligraphy, poetry and prose. His official script, regular script, running script and cursive script are all running scripts, especially cursive script. His Wild Grass has been praised all over the world. There is a saying called "Tang Bohu's painting, Zhu Zhishan's words"; His poetry is rich in materials and language; His writing is so strange and unique. Zhu Zhishan's Liu ti Shi Juan, Du Shi Juan in cursive script, Nineteen Ancient Poems, Tang Shi Juan in cursive script and Han Shi Juan in cursive script are also masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.
Wen Zhiming: I am familiar with all kinds of painting art, and I am good at all kinds of fine and rough techniques. He has good eyesight and pen control ability. When he is over 80 years old, he can still write lowercase letters very fluently. Wen Zhiming's calligraphy and painting attainments are extremely comprehensive, with excellent poems, essays and paintings, and he is known as the "Four Masters".
In painting, he is versatile, green and meticulous. His paintings are good at landscapes, orchids, figures, flowers, especially landscapes. Wen Zhiming studied under Shen Zhou in his early years, and later joined Zhao Meng, Wang Meng and Zhenwu. Painting styles are thick and thin.
The brush originated from Shenzhou and Zhenwu, and it also adopted the ancient wood and bamboo stone method in Zhao Meng. The pen and ink are vigorous and dripping, the dry pen is brushed, and the calligraphy is white. The level and charm can be seen in the thick simplicity; Both Zhao Meng and Wang Meng are meticulous, with dense scenery, shallow void depth, regular shape, sharp edges and corners, no deformation, delicate meticulous brushwork and a little childish.
Most of the colors are green and heavy, with a hint of crimson. Elegant colors are fresh and beautiful. This meticulous landscape painting belongs to natural color painting, which has the characteristics of decoration, lyricism, childlike interest and affection. It also lays the basic characteristics of "five strokes". China's first calligraphy master has made extensive research on the calligraphy traces of famous artists in past dynasties, and has made great achievements in seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script.
Especially good at running script and small letters, passionate, rigorous and vivid. Although there is no vigorous momentum, it has the style of Jin and Tang calligraphy and has its own style. Small letters are euphemistic and have a moderate rhythm, which complements his painting style and is called "the first in Ming Dynasty".
[Xu Zhenqing]
Xu Zhenqing was born smart. He had less liberal arts and science. He is called "this family has no books, but it knows nothing." In his early years, he studied literature in Wu Kuan and calligraphy in Young-jin Lee. In terms of literary genre, He Jingming, Kang Hai, Wang and Bian Gong became the "first seven scholars", emphasizing the study of Qin and Han dynasties and advocating the ancient poems of Han and Wei dynasties and the patriarchal clan system in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Wang Shizhen's A Word is quoted from Jiang Yu Yan Hua.
Calligraphy is a kind of