Poetry and painting belong to different art categories, and there are obvious differences between them. However, Wang Wei's poems provide us with a quiet passage between poetry and painting, and the relationship between poetry and painting is so close in his poems.
Su Dongpo was the first to recognize the poems and paintings in Wang Wei's poems. Commenting on the poem "Clouds and Rain in Lantian" by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, he said: "There are pictures in the poem, which are fascinating; Look at the picture, there are poems in the picture. " This began to discuss the topic of poetry and painting in Wang Wei's poems. Wang Wei's landscape poems are called "paintings in poems" mainly because Wang Wei pays attention to the beauty of composition, image, line, color and mirror.
Wang Wei:
Wang Wei (70 1 year -76 1 year, 699 -76 1 year), whose name is Moju. Born in Hedong (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), born in Hedong Wang, his ancestral home is Qixian, Shanxi. A famous poet and painter in Tang Dynasty.
Li Guan right gleaned, supervised the remonstrance, and made our time in Hexi. During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he worshipped the official department as a doctor and gave things. When An Lushan captured Chang 'an, he was forced to accept a fake post. After Chang 'an was recovered, he was accused of granting Prince Zhongyun. In the first year of Tang Suzong's rule, he was appointed as a senior minister, so he was called "Wang Youcheng".
He is proficient in poetry, calligraphy, painting, music and so on. He is famous for his poems, especially his five words, which praise the landscape and countryside. Together with Meng Haoran, he was called "Wang Meng" and "Shi Fo". Calligraphy and painting are particularly wonderful, and later generations promoted it to the ancestor of Nanzong landscape painting. There are more than 400 poems, including Acacia and Autumn Night in the Mountain. His works include The Collection of Wang Youcheng's Works and The Secret of Painting.