Su Shi commented on Wang Wei: "Poetry is full of paintings; Look at the picture, there are poems in the picture. " Therefore, Wang Wei is a poet of the Tang Dynasty who has "painting in poetry" and "poetry in painting". Wang Wei is proficient in poetry, calligraphy, painting and music. 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".
Wang Wei's literary achievements are mainly reflected in his poetry creation. Wang Wei's poems depict natural scenery such as mountains and rivers, rural areas, praise seclusion, vivid and vivid, and have both form and spirit.
Yin commented on Wang Wei's poems in Harmony: "Pearl is picked in spring and painted on the wall." With a fresh and simple style, Wang Wei created the artistic conception of "painting in poetry, poetry in painting" and "Zen in poetry", and set up a banner in the field of poetry.
Wang Wei is an excellent painter. His poems and paintings are unique, and his paintings have a long-standing reputation in the Tang Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to Dong Qichang's strong admiration, he was later honored as the "originator of Nanzong" in China landscape painting. His profound artistic accomplishment, love for nature and long-term mountain life experience make him have a keen, unique and nuanced feeling for the beauty of nature.
Therefore, the landscape scenery in his works is particularly full of charm, often slightly exaggerated, showing a profound and far-reaching artistic conception, which is intriguing. At the same time, Wang Wei also found a more suitable pen and ink language to describe this artistic conception. Zen is beyond words, and once you resort to visual images, the realm is fresh and natural.
Landscape painting is the most representative of Wang Wei's achievements in painting and calligraphy. In the landscape painting world of Wang Wei's time, Wang Wei was not a professional painter who made a living by painting. The starting point and purpose of his painting is to express his personal temperament. It can be said that at the beginning of Wang Wei, the function of painting is gradually changing, from the function of "educating and helping others" to facing oneself and focusing on the painter's personal heart and spirit.
Most of his paintings are small landscapes of mountains and forests, and they are often rendered with water. They are natural and simple, fresh and elegant. Their flat composition conveys a state of silence, and images and pen and ink complement each other, revealing unique artistic details from a peaceful and sparse artistic conception.
But it is a pity that Wang Wei has no reliable original works handed down from generation to generation, and the only remaining works are copies or fakes of later generations. At the same time, he is also the author of painting theory works "Landscape Theory" and "Landscape Tactics".
Wang Wei's tradition of literati painting;
His paintings reflect the literati's yearning for detachment and leisure, and pursue a "natural" realm that is more in line with the spirit of Zen. The additional positioning of the originator of his literati painting began with the strong admiration of Su Shi, a literary leader in the Song Dynasty. When discussing Wang Wei's poems and paintings, Su Shi said: "There are paintings in poems, which are fascinating; Looking at painting, there is poetry in painting ",which has established a relationship with the real beginning of literati painting." "
Since the Song Dynasty, the status of Wang Wei's painting has generally been on the rise, and his painting style and thoughts have had a far-reaching impact on the development history of China landscape painting. At least the literati painting system, which occupied the mainstream of China ancient landscape painting in later generations, was influenced by Wang Wei. In the Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang clearly put forward that "Literati painting starts from the right" in "Painting Purpose".