Zhang Sengyou is famous for his paintings of Buddhism and Taoism, as well as figures, portraits, flowers and birds, animals and landscapes. He painted a large number of murals in many temples in the south of the Yangtze River and was ordered to paint portraits of kings of various countries at that time, which was able to receive the effect of "painting". His legend of "making the finishing point" is quite popular. Zhang Monk You is engaged in painting creation, with quick thinking and hard work. He has never put down his pen for decades. In terms of skills, she can find new methods and gain extensive knowledge. She used to incorporate the "Pen Diagram" by Wei Shuo, a female calligrapher in the Jin Dynasty, into her paintings to make it more expressive. His artistic techniques are simple and changeable, and he has created a painting method of "the pen is just one or two, and the image is what it should be". Together with Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty, he was praised as a representative of sparse body by later generations, and enjoyed a high reputation with the dense body represented by Gu Kaizhi and Lu Tanwei. At the same time, he is good at absorbing and digesting the expression of foreign art. According to records, he once created murals in Yicheng Temple in Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) with the concave-convex painting method introduced from Tianzhu (now India). The painted object is three-dimensional from a distance and flat from a close look, so the temple is also called concave-convex temple.
Zhang Sengyou studied hard on the figures of Buddha statues and formed his own style, so he was called Zhang. He can draw people in a way consistent with the present and the present. He can successfully draw different image characteristics and styles of the painted objects from their specific identities, times and nationalities. Zhang Sengyou's painting art has a great influence on later generations, and he is also known as three outstanding artists in the Six Dynasties with Gu Kaizhi and Lu Tanwei.
Zhang Sengyou is good at painting people's stories and religious paintings, and is called a painter who surpasses his predecessors. Liang Wudi is a good Buddha. Anyone who decorates a Buddhist temple is required to draw a wall. Painted Buddha statues, with their own style, are called "Zhang's style" and are a model of sculptors. He is also good at portrait painting and genre painting. He is also a dragon painter, and there is a legend that makes the finishing point break through the wall and fly away. He painted "convex and concave flowers" with cinnabar and turquoise on the gate of Yicheng Temple in Jiankang with Tianzhu (ancient India) painting method, which had a three-dimensional effect. Yao Zui's Catalogue of Continued Paintings said: "Good painting of pagodas is beyond the reach of group workers." Zhang Yanyuan's family once kept Zhang Sengyou's Tathagata and saw his Vimalakīrti, Bodhisattva and other works with their own eyes. Zhang Sengyou worked hard all his life, and continued to draw a catalogue, saying that he "worked day and night, was lazy and tireless, but was clear about public and private, and never put down his pen, but he could not be idle for several years." It shows his valuable diligence. In terms of color, it absorbed foreign influences.
According to "Jiankang" records: "When entering the temple, Liang Shaoling and Wang Lun painted convex and concave flowers at the temple gate, which were named as the handwriting of Zhang Monk Friends. Its flowers are made of the legacy of Tianzhu, Zhu and turquoise. From a distance, eyes are dizzy and myopia is flat. The world is salty and different, so it is called the convex and concave temple cloud. " It is said that he created a "boneless" method with no outline, all painted in colors, which changed the emaciated image since Lu Gu, created a fuller model and painted a "short and colorful face". Zhang Huaiguan commented: "The beauty of people, Zhang (monk) gets his flesh, Lu (exploration) gets his bones, and Gu (opening) gets his spirit." Zhang Sengyou's "thin style" painting flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later generations say that his paintings are mostly based on calligraphy, with strokes like a hook and halberd sword. There are gaps and images in painting, which changed the "dense body" painting method of Gu Zhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Lu Tanwei in the Southern Song Dynasty. The "Zhang Family Style" of the Buddha statues painted by Zhang Sengyou is an obvious sign that distinguishes it from other figure painters. Before that, Zhang Huaiguan thought: "If you get your meat, you will get your bones, and you will take care of your spirit." . "Getting meat" refers to the paintings of monks, with plump and beautiful characters. The appearance of this image is closely related to the changes of aesthetic fashion in the whole society. Zhang's style has a great influence on later generations. In the more than 200 years after Liang, Zhang's painting style became the mainstream.
Zhang Sengyou's original paintings are hard to find. In the Tang Dynasty, Liang Lingzan copied his Five Stars and Twenty-eight Dwellings, but he was still alive (in Japan). But from the picture. Zhang Monk's paintings are not obvious. Many subtle techniques in Zhang's paintings, such as point dragging, stick figure and concave-convex method, are difficult to identify, perhaps because the copyist failed to get the extension of the original. It's just that the figure, face and clothes of the man of God are all painted with the grotesque and grotesque characteristics of monks, all of which are not good.
The True Map of Zhang Sengyou Five-Star 28 Pavilion (copied by Liang Lingzan)
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Five-star 28-night scene, silk color, 27.5 cm in length and 489.7 cm in width. Osaka Municipal Art Collection, Japan. This painting depicts the image of a god with five stars and twenty-eight nights. These five stars are gold, wood, water, fire and Saturn. Twenty-eight Hostels was originally a 28-star official chosen by the ancients to compare the operation of the sun, the moon and the five stars as a symbol of observation. This painting depicts the virtual image of the stars, leaving only five stars and twelve nights. Presumably this picture should be the original volume. Every star, every painting, or as a female image, or as an old man, or as a teenager, or as the head of an animal. Each picture is preceded by a seal script description. There is an official script at the beginning of the volume, entitled "Feng Yi Lang Longzhou don't drive Jixian Academy, Liang Lingzan is not too late □". You Simiao is used for characters, delicate, clean and smooth, with simple and subtle colors. The animals such as cows and horses in the picture are also lifelike and the painting style is rigorous. In the picture, the images of Taibai Star God and Phoenix-shaped God have slender faces and still have the legacy of figure painting in the Southern Dynasties, which may be caused by copying earlier. This picture is also entitled "Zhang Sengyou Liang Zuo". According to the records of Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was more than one picture with the same name, which was circulated earlier. The volume contains Xuanhe Collection and Shuanglong Seal, which are known to be hidden in Song Xuanhe Neifu. It was collected by An Qi in the middle of Qing Dynasty, returned to Jingxian County, Wan Yan in the late Qing Dynasty, and then flowed into Japan. Describe scroll treasures, spectacular life, grand view records and Moguan.
Shennong Fuxi portrait axis, Zhang Sengyou.
Zhang Sengyou Fairy Pavilion
Zhang Sengyou Snow Mountain Tourism Map Axis
Zhang sengyou fish basket Guanyin Tufeilier art collection
Zhang Monk Friends Purple Eggplant Figure Axis
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