Dong Qichang was a famous painter in the late Ming Dynasty. He founded Songjiang School of Painting and put forward the theory of North-South School of Painting. In fact, he is also a famous calligrapher, and his calligraphy works have a great influence on later generations. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty liked Dong Qichang's calligraphy very much, and praised his calligraphy for its elegance and agility, which was the best calligraphy in the late Ming Dynasty.
Dong Qichang is good at painting landscape paintings, learning from Dong Yuan, Huang and Ni Zan, and his brushwork is delicate and neutral, quiet and sparse; Clean and bright with ink fragrance, gentle and plain; Green, simple and generous. He is an outstanding representative of Huating School of Painting and has the beauty of "Yan Gu Zhao Zi".
Existing works include Rock House Map, Eight Scenes of autumn scenery, Map of Zhou Jintang, Pipa of Bai Juyi, Poems in Cursive Script, and Postscript on Jiang Yan. Painting and painting theory had a great influence on painting circles in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Calligraphy in and out of the Jin and Tang Dynasties has its own style. The work "Xihongtang Post" (engraved post). He is quite good at poetry and prose, and he has written Essays on Painting Zen Rooms and Collected Works of Rong Tai.
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Calligraphy has the name of "Zhang Xing Mi Dong", which is juxtaposed with Linyi Xing Dong, Zhang Jin Jiang Rui Tu and Xu Tian Mi Wan Zhong; There is a saying in the painting that the south is east and the north is rice. Mo Shilong and Chen Jiru advocated the theory of "North-South School", that is, the landscape paintings of "courtyard style" and "literati painting" were divided into two schools.
There are countless paintings and calligraphy works created by Dong Qichang in his life, among which the paintings and poems of recent people are an important part. "Reading thousands of books" as he said in "Essays on Painting a Zen Room" means that one must learn from tradition and the ancients if he wants to become an artist.
At the age of 65,438+07, he wrote Yan Zhenqing's Many Pagodas when he began to learn calligraphy. At the age of 22, he studied painting with Huang, and later with other painting schools. This practice of learning from the ancients lasted for 80 years and accompanied him all his life. He widely absorbed the strengths of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and learned from others, which made his paintings and calligraphy achieve artistic achievements beyond the ancients.