1, Poetry:
Cao Zhi's creation is divided into two periods, with 220 years as the boundary. His early poems mainly praised his ideals and ambitions, filled with optimism and romance, and full of confidence in the future.
Later poems mainly express the grief and indignation caused by the contradiction between ideal and reality. His poems not only embody the elegance of The Book of Songs, but also contain the profound and strange interest of The Songs of the South.
It not only inherits the brushwork of reflecting reality in Han Yuefu, but also retains the warm and sad artistic conception of 19 ancient poems. Cao Zhi's poetry has its own distinctive and unique style, which has completed the transformation from Yuefu folk songs to literati poems.
2, painting theory:
Cao Zhi clearly pointed out that painting can "play a warning role". Moreover, this kind of "warning" is not carried out with graphics, but is caused by the emotional voice of the viewer through the artistic image of painting. He talked about the emotional reactions caused by painting, such as "looking up", "lamenting", "gnashing your teeth", "forgetting to eat", "resisting your head", "sighing" and staring at others.
Extended data:
Cao Zhi fought in four directions with his father in his early years and was highly confident of his talents. "With this Wang Zuocai, he is generous and unique." "I am so humble, I am covered with flowers."
In "White Horse", "If the string is controlled to break the left, the right hair will destroy the moon branch. Raise your hand and fly, rub your feet, bend over and spread your hooves. Cao Zhi's ideal image is smarter than monkeys or apes and as brave as leopards. The poem "Died in a national disaster and suddenly" reveals heroism and determination to serve the country.
In his later years, Cao Zhi suffered from suspicion and was brilliant, but he still did not change his original intention. He repeatedly told himself that "seclusion is not my ambition, but worrying about the country is my ambition", and "serving the Ming Dynasty and making contributions to the sacred world is his ambition", which shows the enthusiasm of Jian 'an poets for using the world.
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