There are many famous artists in the modern painting world, and the most famous in the field of landscape painting creation should be "Nanzhang Beipu". Nan Zhang, referring to the painter Zhang Daqian; Beipu is talking about the painter Pu Xinji. Some people may ask, why is it not called "Beipu Nanzhang", is it the order of ranking based on the achievements of painting? It is said that when this title first came out, Pu Xinji felt unhappy and should rank his surname first. Zhang Daqian is very modest, he said that the painter who can be compared with Pu Xinji's achievements is Wu Hufan.
Zhang Daqian once said that he only admired three painters of his time, namely Pu Xinji, Wu Hufan and Xie Zhiliu. It can be seen how important Pu Xinji's position in his heart is. In this way, the saying of Nanzhang and Beipu spread. The two of them became the shining twin stars of the art world. From the perspective of style, Zhang Daqian's landscape paintings are mainly antique, showing a little personality. Most of Pu Xinji's landscape paintings belong to the Northern Sect painting method, and most of them are artistic conception Xiao Shu with pride.
"Lakes and Mountains in Summer" and "Hanyun Xiao Temple" are the works of Zhang Daqian and Pu Xinji, respectively, the former uses the green technique to paint the spring mountains, and the latter occupies a corner of the picture to emphasize the close-up scene as if in front of you. In both landscape paintings, there are wonderful boundary painting pavilions, which make the picture appear full of life. The color saturation of "Summer in Lakes and Mountains" is extremely high, which makes it easy for people to pay too much attention to the visual effect and ignore the charm in the painting. Why did Zhang Daqian paint like this?
On the other hand, Zhang Daqian is full of personality, and he likes to reinterpret traditional brush and ink techniques with unique painting techniques. He uses heavy colors and bright colors to show the bright and atmospheric side of the green landscape. His painting "Lakes and Mountains in Summer" seems to have a light shining on the mountain, allowing people to see the bright spring light. A good landscape painting can show the changes of the four seasons, the brightness of yin and yang, and adjust the brush and ink techniques according to the content of the work. He showed this skill in his creation, which made Chunshan warm.
Some people use "luxury and elegance" to describe Pu Xinji's painting style. He has a noble status, calls himself the "old king and grandson", and has been reading the authentic paintings and calligraphy of famous masters of the past dynasties since he was a child. He likes to emulate the style of the Southern Song Dynasty courtyard and use fine brushes to depict the scenery in the corners. When he decided to focus on depicting the boundary painting tower, he did not forget to show the hollow and deep side of the landscape scenery, and integrated Xiao Shu's artistic conception into the realism. The precise lines outline the ancient structure with a strong sense of perspective, which shows the rigor and seriousness of the conception. It could have been neat and meticulous to the end, but he injected ease into his paintings, breaking the stereotype of many people's landscape paintings of Beizong.
Pu Xinji's paintings show a kind of "superimposed" taste. Looking at the landscape of the Northern Sect as a whole, looking carefully at the vista, he covered the mountain structure with a moss dot pen, which is very similar to the painting method of the Southern Sect. Take the momentum, so that the picture has more brush and ink changes. The "superimposition" he employs is not stacking, but more like "reassembling". Let the landscape paintings of Beizong have more elegance that literati like, and more far-reaching and profound that literati yearn for.
Painting pavilions and buildings is carried out at a uniform speed, without dragging mud and water. Painting mountains and rocks is very fast, free and easy, and the ink is dripping. The change in the rhythm of the brushwork and the combination of freehand techniques have solved the problem of how to express the humanistic spirit in Beizong landscape painting.
Pu Xinji is the grandson of the old prince and a literati. This method of combining work and writing is estimated to be the only one he can use so well. He guarded the feelings of the literati and gave the landscape paintings of Beizong a scholarly spirit.
Both artists like to draw on traditional nutrients in their creations, and make their works new with a slight variation. If you want to paint as wonderful as them, you must understand the importance of borrowing from the past to open up the present.
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Further reading
The snow stopped, the sky was clear, and Zhang Geng painted "Guanshan Snow Ji".
The reason why landscape painting makes people move is the artistic conception.
The efficiency of reading and learning in the mountains will be very high, and the reading picture in the landscape painting.
Use color to make the landscape elegant, Gu Shanyou painted the "Landscape Book".