This painting is based on a poem in the Tang Dynasty-"A boat with a leaf, a bamboo coat, an old man fishing in the Hanjiang River-snow". Draw a boat on the cold and quiet lake, and an old man is fishing alone. The mountains on the other side are steep and the sky is gloomy, which makes the snow-capped mountains more vivid. The nearby pine trees are snowy, standing proudly in the wind, and the dead trees are drooping and quite lively. In terms of artistic expression, this painting adopts a plane layout, and its composition has the brushwork of the Song Dynasty. The color of the picture is simple, with ochre alternating with cyan and ink. A chill makes the work dignified and lively, full of silence and Han Xiao atmosphere.
What is the virtual reality in Chinese painting? Generally speaking, "truth" refers to the place where there is pen and ink in the painting (or the part painted in foreign details). Virtual and real are relative, and where there is no pen and ink (or a rough and light part drawn with a pen) is "virtual". Painters often paint with heart: the factory has no pen and ink, but tries to have pen and ink to achieve "the coexistence of reality and reality, the beauty of yuan painting" (quoted from "Painting Guide"); . In this painting, the author treats it like this. He focuses on describing the angler's concentration and concentration, and several faint and gentle water lines arouse the viewer's imagination, so that the blank is no longer nothingness, but gives people the impression that the river is boundless and the sky is like washing. Therefore, aestheticians believe that "the image created by artists is' real' and our imagination is' empty'" (Zong Baihua's Aesthetic Walk, page 33). Imagination in painting also has the image of "reality", which is a clever use of blank space. China painters call it "taking white as black", which is an important feature of China's art. "Fishing Alone in the Cold River" is a model work that successfully uses the combination of reality and reality in art to create an image realm.
Liu Zongyuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a quatrain: "There are no birds in hundreds of mountains, and there are no footprints in thousands of paths. A boat, a bamboo cloak, an old man fishing in the cold river-snow "(Jiang Xue). The creation of "Fishing Alone in the Cold River" is related to this poem, which is a poetic painting. Appreciating this poem and this painting, we can appreciate the artistic interest of "Poetry is an invisible painting, and painting is a visible poem".
On the empty and calm river, a middle-aged man (from the image) is fishing alone. He leaned forward slightly, absorbed. Maybe a fish took the bait at this time? When the fisherman sat at one end of the boat, the tail of the boat tilted slightly upward. There is no ink around the picture, only a few faint water ripples are marked on the side of the boat to show the river, which reminds people of the emptiness of the river, and the word "independence" stands out when people are in the center of the picture. Ma Yuan is called "the corner of the horse". He often leaves many blanks for the audience to imagine freely, overcome the complexity a little and master the means.