Zheng Wuchang is a famous painter and art educator in modern times. He is good at painting landscapes, and his works reveal a new creative concept of borrowing from the past. For example, this painting "Watching the Sun from the Sea" uses scattered perspective panoramas to depict seaside landscapes. A red sun rises at the junction of the sea and the sky, and the red glow is projected on the sea like a fairyland. The painting can be divided into three parts, with undulating mountains in the foreground, ancient pines in the middle and sunrise over the sea in the foreground. He uses scattered perspective as well as focal perspective. The two perspective methods are used together to make the picture appear vivid.
In terms of the use of color, the foreground and middle ground use the traditional blue-green technique, and the distant ground borrows the technique of watercolor painting, using "water to break the color", painting the light and shadow of the red sun at the beginning of the rise. Interestingly, "water breaking color" will produce a hazy feeling, Zheng Wuchang controlled the amount of water used, and painted a real three-dimensional feeling. Integrating ancient and modern China and the West, his landscapes make people see the appearance of new landscapes.
When Zheng Wuchang was young, he liked the works of the Four Kings in the early Qing Dynasty very much, and he made great achievements in antique. After that, he studied the style of the famous artists of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and figured out the techniques of ancient painters to express realism. He put forward a point of view, "learn from the ancient law and establish my own law", do not reject tradition, nor are you bound by tradition. It can be seen from "Watching the Sun from the Sea" that he regained the green landscape techniques of the Song Dynasty, and integrated the aesthetic taste of lyrical and poetic expression through scenes, so that the creation of landscape painting got rid of the old-fashioned concept.
In the painting, there are no waves, but it still makes people feel majestic and shocking. This is the charm of contrasting techniques, the strange peaks and mountains and the boundless sea, sparse and dense, only then can there be a magnificent momentum. The sunrise colors are warm, the green landscape is solemn and solemn, and the contrast between cold and warm colors paints an elegant and clear color.
Since it is a sun-gazing experience, the perspective of observation is very important. Zheng Wuchang added a scene figure to the top of the mountain, which has the courage of "being at the top". The point-of-view figures in landscape paintings often appear in the close-up scene, so that the painting does not affect the continuity of the space. When the point-of-view characters appear in the middle of the ground, they show a transcendent beauty.
Appreciating "Watching the Sun from the Sea" can be viewed from three perspectives, namely brush and ink, composition, and color. The three are integrated and intertwined, condensing the artist's mind. The direction of the mountain, the heavy ink and the pen are changeable, even if the use of color does not block the edge of the gesture. The world is magnificent, sweeping away the soft wind of the Qing Dynasty's landscapes. The water-colored sky and colorful clouds are accurately depicted, highlighting the majesty of the green mountains. From the viewer's point of view to the perspective of the person in the painting, the two perspectives skillfully blend two perspectives.
Watching "Watching the Sun in the Sea" has an immersive feeling, and the composition of the landscape is shocking. When you see such a view, you will definitely be amazed by the majesty of the natural landscape. Modern painters like to express their positive feelings of life in landscape paintings, and the landscape pattern in the paintings has changed greatly compared with the works of the ancients. The aesthetics of the times make painters have to seek innovation and change, which provides a boost for innovation.
Zheng Wuchang's pine trees are very distinctive, scattered and uneven, some tall and some short. Drawing trees is a basic skill, and it is not easy to draw well. He drew vitality and rhythm in the scattered pine forest, and it seemed to have a sense of movement against the backdrop of smoke and white fog. The romantic and majestic landscape scenery shows the poeticism of the painter's heart and shows it in front of people's eyes.
In Zheng Wuchang's paintings, we can see the expressiveness of traditional landscape painting techniques, as well as the artist's efforts to innovate and change. Landscape painting is not to copy natural scenery, nor is it only artistic creation, how to balance realism and lyricism, look at this "Watching the Sun from the Sea" will be rewarding.
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