It embodies the characteristics of realistic painting that expresses individuality, pays attention to borrowing objects to express emotions, and pursues charm and interest.
"There are not many ink spots but many tears, and the mountains and rivers are still the same as before. The branches of coconut trees in the troubled times have been left to be carefully copied by the literary community." Zhu Da's first painting poem was a painter in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Known as Bada Shanren, he is famous for his freehand brushwork with large ink strokes. He is good at splashing ink and is known for his flower and bird paintings.
The method is natural, the pen and ink are concise, majestic, and unique, creating Gao Kuang's vertical and horizontal style.
Translation: Every ink dot is like my own tears. The landscapes I paint are still the rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty, but the mountains and rivers are no longer mine. The only way for water to flow eastward is to flow northward. South (a metaphor for the Qing army going south), this goes against common sense.
My paintings are for future generations to figure out my mood, which is the nostalgia for my motherland. The coconut trees are the dead branches of the old trees, the old trees are the princes, and the dead branches are the grandsons of the kings.
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The Badashan people were in an era when their country was ruined and their family was ruined. They were reduced from royal nobles to common people in the pavilion, and they had indescribable pain in their hearts.
At the same time, it created his melancholy, lonely, and eccentric personality. Coupled with the high political pressure at that time, Bada Shanren could only concentrate on art, and vent his hatred against the Qing rulers in art. dissatisfied.
He was mainly engaged in calligraphy and painting throughout his life. He was a very individual and creative calligrapher and painter. He was good at painting, calligraphy, poetry, seal cutting, etc. He was good at painting flowers, birds, and landscapes, and he was especially famous for flowers and birds.
His flowers and birds inherited the freehand techniques of Chen Chun and Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty, but his painting style is more solemn and elegant than Chen Chun's; more wild and grotesque than Xu Wei's, the meaning is more profound, and he has achieved the "simple shape of a brush" , the realm of "both physical and spiritual".
His landscapes were modeled after Huang Gongwang, but he was more influenced by Dong Qichang. Most of his landscapes were drawn from barren mountains and leftover water, which were desolate and desolate; the trees were crooked, withered branches and leaves, and the artistic conception was desolate.
Bada Shanren’s calligraphy is also unique and highly accomplished, but the title of the painting conceals the title of the book. Huang Binhong once believed that Bada Shanren was “first in calligraphy and second in painting.”
In his early years, he learned calligraphy from Ouyang Xun's regular script, calligraphers Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, and Dong Qichang, and later from Zhong Yao and Wang Xizhi's calligraphy.
In his later years, he made good use of the bald pen. The lines are even in thickness, and the layout is uneven in size. They are smooth and round, with strong connotation, showing an arrogant and rebellious style of writing. Judging from its artistic characteristics, it can be summarized in three words: simplicity, wonder and meaning. ?
Simplicity: That is, simplicity wins in painting.
The Eight Great Paintings advocate the word "province" and often express complex things with extremely concise brushwork.
In his paintings, whether it is a bird, a fish, a chicken, a flower, a tree, a stone, just a few strokes seem to have reached a point where no more strokes can be left, but he can draw The three-dimensional sense of object texture is very vivid, which is especially prominent in flower and bird paintings.
Of course, his simple flower-and-bird paintings are not made out of thin air, but are created by the artist through his careful observation of nature, a high degree of summary of the real image, and artistic exaggeration to achieve " The pen is not perfect but the heart is respectful; the pen is not thorough but the intention is thorough.”
This is also difficult for all ancient painters to achieve. ?
Strange: that is, the composition is peculiar. The compositions of the Bada are mostly "cut-off" and the images are often weird. They basically ignore the rules and write wildly. This has formed a major feature of the Bada art.
Taking flowers and birds as an example, Bada was good at painting pine, lotus, stone, fish, and bird. The lotus he painted was obviously different from previous painters. The lotus in his painting did not focus on flowers but on time. Write about its graceful manner of swaying and turning freely in the wind.
The pines he painted are ancient and strange, with beauty in their ugliness; the fish and birds he painted were exaggerated, and he often painted the eyes of fish and birds into square shapes, with the pupils pointed at the edge of the eye sockets and the white eyes turned upward. The cold light is compelling.
He has a painting in which there are only one or two swimming fishes and nothing else. The space left seems to have become a vast ocean with endless smoke, leaving room for the viewer's imagination; he The composition of his landscape paintings is also unique. He often paints scenes of "broken mountains and remaining water", but they can show strong vitality.
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Meaning: The meaning is profound.
Ba Da relied on a pen to fully express the unspeakable pain and sadness, anger and desolation of the country and the family from the conception, composition, poem and signature.
At the same time, he vented his strong dissatisfaction with reality. He once wrote a poem titled "Peony and Peacock Picture": "The peacock's famous flowers and rain make a screen, and the bamboo tops are strong and half ink is formed. How can one understand the three ears?" , coincides with the second watch of spring."
The picture shows two ugly peacocks with three feathers trailing from their tails, standing on unstable stone soil to satirize the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, his signature is also unique in style and has profound meaning. When writing the title, he closely connects "eight" with "big", "mountain" and "people", and writes it as "crying" or "laughing". "The image contains a mixture of laughter and laughter, expressing his cynical but helpless mood.
Zheng Banqiao once wrote this poem: "When the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, the hair on the temples is always white. I have a bag of poems and paintings, thousands of them painted horizontally and vertically. There are not many ink spots but many tears."