Xu Wei, an outstanding painter in Ming Dynasty, had a rough life. Xu Wei created many famous works in the middle and late period, covering a wide range. Let's have a look.
What is Xu Wei's job? Finally, we will appreciate many pictures of grapes and analyze what kind of person Xu Wei is. What are the characteristics of Xu Wei's works? In literature, Xu Wei's creative content covers a wide range, including poetry and drama. However, Xu Wei's creative mode is different from similar works in the past. Each of his works shows his own unique characteristics. As for Xu Wei's prose, the most famous is his own epitaph.
Painting and Calligraphy Works of Ming Dynasty Painter Xu Wei
His poems infuse his true feelings into his works. In terms of drama, Xu Wei wrote several plays, showing different emotions, including his views on some phenomena in real life. Because the way he used was different from the previous way, he created a new model, which is of great significance to the theater.
In calligraphy and painting, Xu Wei's calligraphy broke through the previous ways and changed the style of calligraphy, which not only made calligraphy alive, but also full of power. As for Xu Wei's calligraphy, later generations thought that Xu Wei wrote calligraphy, poetry, composition and painting. The reason is that Xu Wei often combines calligraphy with painting. There are pictures in the book, and there are books in the picture.
Xu Wei's ink grape picture is his masterpiece. The first half of this painting was written by Xu Wei, from which we can appreciate Xu Wei's magnificent calligraphy. The lower part shows that the main body of the painting is grapes.
Xu Wei's masterpiece is an ink grape map.
Grapes are simply coated with ink and water, and leaves and fruits are the same color, just as grapes are actually hidden in leaves. Xu Wei pulled down the vines casually, which looked messy, but it looked very organized. He uses the originality of ink painting to create a feeling that grapes are about to drip, and his poems make his works more imposing and feeling.
From Xu's grape paintings, we can see the characteristics of his calligraphy and painting. Xu Wei likes to combine calligraphy with painting. Irregular fonts are like grapes that grow irregularly. They are all very free. It can also be seen that Xu Wei likes a free and unrestrained inner thought.
Xu Wei combined his unique painting method with different calligraphy methods to create his own painting style, which made his paintings more interesting.
Although Xu Wei's life experience was quite bumpy, his creations in literature, calligraphy and painting were unique at that time, forming Xu Wei's style characteristics. Xu Grape Map is one of his representative works.