The ancients said that when they were getting old and suffering from diseases, they were afraid that they would not be able to see the scenery of famous mountains and rivers. Don't worry, you can enjoy the landscape paintings, lie in bed like entering the mountains and forests, and enjoy the mountains and rivers. This is the "lying tour", from the painting to feel the natural landscape of the gods, to get a sense of satisfaction. This passage has become the creative proposition of many painters, depicting paintings that make people feel happy. This "Tale of Lakes and Mountains" is a picture of lying in the landscape, appreciating the painting as if you are in a fixed place, and entering the spiritual world of free galloping.
Dai Benxiao lived in the early Qing Dynasty, he met Shi Tao, Gong Xian and others, and liked to sketch according to the real scene and draw his own feelings. His works are available in two styles, complex and simple, highlighting the beauty of the vast and deep. Dai Benxiao likes to use light ink to render the texture of mountains and rocks, and with the marks formed by thick ink, he paints the vicissitudes of life. Later generations liked this elegant and elegant style of painting very much, and included him in the ranks of Yeyi painters.
The Yeyi School, compared with the orthodox school, has a painting style close to nature and implements the simple and smooth style of the painters of the Yuan Dynasty. In order to make the picture more popular, Dai Benxiao added three groups of characters, which echo each other in a triangle. The boats, the study, and the water pavilion are distributed in the close-up scene, indicating that the theme of the work is related to seclusion. The waterfront rocks extend to the surface of the water, echoing the confrontation between the two peaks in the middle and far grounds, ensuring the balance and stability of the composition.
It skillfully integrates the beginning and end of the composition, and there is no sense of contrived piling up. Natural landscapes and the art of landscape painting are both related and distinct. Painters need to use an aesthetic vision to abandon the natural landscape and leave behind the soul of the natural landscape. Dai Benxiao's landscapes, through the high and low, left and right contrast, virtual and real transformation, have completed the creative process of taking their charm without seeking to resemble the form. Thick ink mixed with dots to paint dense trees and thick shades, creating spatial changes, even if the mountains and rivers are stacked and the mountains are undulating, it will not block the charm.
In the middle of the mountain stone, Dai Benxiao pays attention to the texture of the mountain stone. He first sketched the miscellaneous trees with heavy ink, emphasizing that the mountains are steep and the trees grow in the crevices of the rocks. The ancients emphasized that the stone was divided into three sides very early, and they knew that the mountain stone was three-dimensional. The method and rendering are all techniques that appear to express the folds of the mountain stone. The light ink is clear and moist, dyeing the ethereal beauty of the clouds and smoke in the mountains. Thick ink and fine brush, outlining the muscles and bones of mountains and rocks. Rigidity and softness, virtual and real are born together, and rhythmic rhythms are produced with the ups and downs of the mountains.
The so-called vividness is to make people feel full of vitality. The flowing water of the mountain spring is connected to the scenery of the smoke and clouds, and the smoke and rain bring a sense of mystery, making people want to walk to the top of the mountain without the smoke and clouds blocking the view. The composition of the picture starts from the middle scene, and changes from far-reaching to lofty, continuing the endless thoughts in Dai Benxiao's heart.
There is a big and small problem that needs special attention. Fortunately, Dai Benxiao solved the problem of seeing the big in the small, and through the change of pen and ink and the management of the position, people can feel the meaning outside the painting. You can look up, you can get close, and the peace in the mountains and rivers is leisurely immersed in the heart. Seeing this, I couldn't help but think of Tao Yuanming's famous sentence, "The knot is in the human realm, and there is no noise of cars and horses".
When artistic beauty encompasses natural beauty, lying tour can be realized. The landscape and the landscape painting are integrated, and the painter's graceful and free bearing becomes part of the charm of the painting. Lying in the landscape, the communication and interaction between the painter and the appreciator are realized, and the painter's emotions can be felt through the picture.
If you feel detached and free, if you see plain and natural, then you understand Dai Benxiao's creative intentions and complete the communication with him across time and space.
Further reading
Simple and elegant, the fun of painting paper.
Drawing freshness with traditional techniques, Zheng Wuchang's "Watching the Sun from the Sea".
The study in the painting allows you to see the joy of learning.
A group of "Imitation of Wang Meng's Landscape", they all love to be vigorous.