(1470,165438+1October 28th to1March 28th, 559), formerly known as Bi (or Zuo Bi). From the age of forty-two, he signed clocks with lines or more. Because the ancestors were Hengshan people, they were named Hengshan lay, and the world called "Wenhengshan". Changzhou County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) people, Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili. Painters, calligraphers, writers and collectors in Ming Dynasty.
Wen Zhiming studied literature in Wu Kuan, calligraphy in Li Yingzhen and painting in Shenzhen. He failed in nine rural exams in his life. In the second year of Jiajing (1523), Gong Sheng, aged, took the imperial examination and was awarded the post of imperial academy. In the fifth year of Jiajing (1526), Wen Zhiming resigned and returned to his hometown to specialize in creation.
In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing (1559), Wen Zhiming died on February 20th at the age of ninety. His disciples made personal sacrifices. Wen Zhiming's poems, essays, books and paintings are all excellent, and they are also called "Four Musts". Together with Shen Zhou, they created the "Five Schools". Together with Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Chou Ying, they are called "Ming thinkers" in the history of painting. In literature, he, Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin and Xu Zhenqing are also called "four gifted scholars in Wuzhong".
Artistic features of the works:
Wen Zhiming's accomplishments in painting and calligraphy are extremely comprehensive, including landscapes, figures, flowers and orchids. The theme of landscape painting mostly describes the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, while the characters and manners in the landscape completely imitate Zhao Mengfu. Li Jicheng, a figure painter, inherited the ancient tradition, and his brushwork is exquisite and fluent. In his later years, Wen Zhiming had two styles: thick accumulation and thin hair, and the more he worked, the more he worked. Wen Zhiming studied painting theory all his life and worked hard, which made him famous. Keep pace with teacher Shen Zhou, and become the leader of Wumen 50 years after Shen Zhou.
Li Yingzhen, a beginner in calligraphy, has learned from the masterpieces of the previous generation, and has his own accomplishments in seal cutting, official script, regular script, calligraphy and cursive script. Especially good at running script and small letters, warm and beautiful, rigorous statutes and vivid ideas. Although there is no vigorous momentum, it has the charm of Jin and Tang calligraphy and has its own certain style. Small letters are euphemistic and slow-paced, which complements his painting style and is known as "the first in Ming Dynasty".