Kun Can
Kun Can was a famous painter in the Qing Dynasty and one of the Four Monks in the early Qing Dynasty. He has works such as "Large Rocks and Gorges", "Wandering" and "Green Sky". His works are extant, among which landscape painting has the highest achievement. He was an all-rounder who was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting.
Brief introduction of Qing Dynasty painter Kun Can
Kun Can (1612-1692), a Qing painter. My real surname is Liu. After becoming a monk, I was given the name Kuncan, with the courtesy name Jieqiu, and my nicknames were Shixi, Baitu, Shidaoren, Shixi Taoren, Candaoren, and Dianzhu Taoren. A native of Wuling, Huguang (now Changde, Hunan). Together with Shi Tao, he is known as the "Er Shi", and together with Bada Shanren, Hongren and Shi Tao, he is known as the "Four Painting Monks in the Early Qing Dynasty". He loved to travel to famous mountains and rivers, and later lived in Youqi Temple in Niushou Mountain, Nanjing, where he had close contacts with Cheng Zhengkui. He is good at painting landscapes, and he learned from Wang Meng. He likes to use dry brush to rub, light ink to render, and occasionally use light ocher as the background. The layout is complex, green and dense, and the artistic conception is deep. Good at calligraphy and poetry. His extant works include "The Picture of Layers of Rocks and Gorges", "The Picture of Lying Wandering", "The Picture of Green Sky", etc.
How to evaluate Kun Can
Kun Can enjoys a high reputation among the survivors of the late Ming Dynasty, and his paintings have also attracted the attention of the world. At that time, Zhou Lianggong, a famous scholar and great connoisseur, admired and valued Kun Can's character and painting skills very much. He wrote a biography of him in "Reading Paintings", saying: "His character, pen and ink are all as good as others... Painting matters He is so clever that he can't do it for others." Zhang Yi commented on this old friend who had a close connection with each other in Kun Can's "Imitation Rice Landscape Book": "How many people can write poems from the spirit of the world? Painting, how many people have learned from all over the world?... This painting is based on the father and son of the Mi family. They are afraid that the father and son of the Mi family will not be around. The saying is that if you don't hate me, you won't see Kun Can, and if you hate the ancients, you won't see me. "He thinks of Kun Can's poems. , it expresses one's own soul; Kun Can's paintings are the creation of Master Zhi, even better than his father and son in the Song Dynasty; Kun Can's Buddhism directly points to one's own heart, without the cliché of monks giving sermons in lectures. Zhang Geng's "Guochao Painting Collection·Kun Can Biography" says: "The stonework landscape, the mysterious scenery, the deep and deep mountains are fascinating. The ancient brush and ink, the exquisite coloring, are the most outstanding achievements of the Yuan people. This kind of The brushwork has not been seen in the world for a long time!" This passage shows that Kun Can's paintings capture the essence of the four masters of the Yuan Dynasty. In short, for more than three hundred years, Kun Can has been influencing the painting world with his noble spirit that attaches equal importance to his character and paintings, and has become a monument in the eyes of painters.