In his later years, Mr. Zhang Daqian's lotus paintings were mostly boneless, freehand or splashed with ink, new and ancient, and still adhered to his consistent emphasis on physics, heavy feeling and heavy state. In addition, Mr. Zhang Daqian always pays special attention to the relationship between calligraphy and painting when operating a brush, and puts forward that painting should have four calligraphy skills: positive, cursive, seal and official. Draw the stem of the lotus, using seal script; Ye is an official script; Petals are regular script. Daqian's observation is meticulous. The lotus flowers in his works have different shapes, including straight, oblique, oblique, upturned, static, moving, divided, combined, large, small, disabled and elegant. They show various postures in the wind, such as sunny days, rainy days and dewdrops, which can be described as "reflecting sunlight and making the lotus leaves look different" and "the wind blows the lotus leaves 18 times", which is pleasing to the eye.
Xu Beihong said in Preface to Zhang Daqian's Painting Collection: "Daqian represents a landscape writer, and his beautiful and elegant pen is really fascinating." Zhang Daqian is famous for his good painting of lotus flowers, and is known as "the peak of painting lotus flowers in ancient and modern times". Among many flower themes, Zhang Daqian prefers lotus. In his early years, Zhang Daqian painted lotus flowers mostly by Xu Wei, a painter in the Ming Dynasty. In his middle age, he worked part-time and wrote. In his later years, he was best at painting lotus flowers with splash ink and semi-abstract techniques. Zhang Daqian's masterpiece "One Flower, One World" won an unprecedented price of more than 50 million Taiwan dollars and 60 million Taiwan dollars in two charity sales in Taiwan Province Province. In the autumn auction of Sotheby's in 2002, there was another record-breaking news: Zhang Daqian's "Splashing the Lotus Screen" cost about HK$ 6.5438+0.5 million, and it was finally sold for HK$ 20.22 million, breaking the world record of the highest transaction price of modern calligraphy and painting in China.