Wang Fang

Wang Fang

Wang Fang (1799-1877) was born in Yanghu, Jiangsu Province (now Changzhou). Qing Dynasty calligrapher.

Life of the characters

His official career was in 1844, when he was appointed to Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong Province. Booze is good at humor. During his first visit to Tang Yifen, he discussed painting with Zhao Lanzhou and Fei danxu day and night, because he was good at landscape. The brushwork is loose and elegant, the ink method is moist, and the rules of the Yuan people are not lost. It's made in middle age. It's full of hills and ravines. It's full of trees and stones. It's quite wonderful. I'm sorry for my decadence in my old age. The book is written by Zhao Mengfu, with elegant posture and excellent appreciation. There is a collection of dreams. He died seventy-nine years ago. Wu Yang county annals, the sequel of Mo Lin's modern words, Tong Yin's comments on paintings, a collection of reading paintings, notes of Yan Tian Zhai, and the history of Qing painters' poems.

Artistic achievements

In the Qing Dynasty, Wang Fang's landscape paintings belong to the "four kings" orthodox school, and his calligraphy comes from Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy style. Reading the history of painting, we can know that he started from the literati painting of the Yuan Dynasty, and continued to attack the "four kings". At that time and later commentators commented that his early landscape painting was "the style of brushwork was loose and beautiful, the ink method was moist, and the style of Yuan people was not lost.". It's made in middle age. It's full of hills and ravines. It's full of trees and stones. It's quite wonderful. " His calligraphy is "graceful and elegant". His landscape painting was greatly influenced by Tang Yifen, the leader of the orthodox landscape painting school at that time.

(the picture is landscape by Wang Fang in Qing Dynasty.)

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