Ju Lian

Ju Lian

Ju Lian (September 22, 1828 to May 5, 1904) was born in Geshan Township, Panyu County, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. His name is Shi Gang, and his name is Guquan, Geshan Qiaozi and Luohu Sanren. Ju Lian is a famous traditional Chinese painting painter in Lingnan area in modern China. He is good at painting flowers, birds, grass, insects and figures, especially from life. He and his elder brother are called "Er Ju". At the beginning, he studied song Guangbao and Meng Litang. Later, he absorbed the advantages of each family and became his own. On the basis of inheriting and developing Yun Shouping's brushwork, he widely used the water and powder bumping methods, inheriting, developing and perfecting the "Jupai" art. His representative works are twelve minutes of spring.

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Ju Lian (1828-1904), a famous flower and bird painter in Lingnan area in modern times, was called "Er Ju" together with his brother Cong Chao. Shi Gang, named Guquan, was born in Geshan township of Panyu (now Haizhu District of Guangzhou). He was named Qiaozi in Geshan because of his other name and the old man in Geshan later. At first, he studied painting from his cousin Ju Meisheng. In his spare time, he traveled to the countryside, or climbed mountains and rivers to imitate flowers, birds, plants and insects. He was also dedicated to studying the boneless painting of Nantian old man, or took it from Shen Shitian, and engraved it as "between song and Meng". Song was the Guangbao of lotus hall, Meng was the pilgrim of Li hall, and he did not forget his teacher. On the birthday of Empress Dowager Xi of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Zhichun, governor of Guangxi, invited him to paint a hundred paintings Huashou screen to offer, so it is a moving Gongqing.

Artistic achievements

Ju Lian's paintings of lady's feather, grass, insect and flowers are gorgeous in color and neat in style. All of them are masterpieces. A large landscape is also comfortable and magnificent. The painting of changhetou is a picture of twenty-four flower letters. During Daoguang period, Li Yunfu (bingshou) of Linchuan hired Meng Litang (Jinyi) and song otang (Guangbao) to work as flowers in Guangdong. Li Tang's painting style is bright and beautiful. Then two schools of Cantonese painting came into being. Du Luochuan and Deng Yinquan are also members of the Litang school. Zhang Dingming, song Zixi and otang school. When Chao Lian brothers came out, they still studied lotus pond at first, but later they became their own family. Ju's flowers have been blooming all their lives. His disciples, Yang Yuanhui, Chen Fen, Li Henian, Chen Jian, Wu Yizhuang, Zhang Chunchu, Rong zuchun, Liang Hechao, Guan Huinong, Gao Jianfu, Chen Shuren, are all famous in the world.

Life

Ju Lian was born in Baoying County, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. His ancestors came to Guangdong as an official, so he settled down in Panyu. Father name Zhanghua, also known as key, word shaonan, Minqing County Magistrate. Ju Lian was born on September 22, 1828, the eighth year of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty, ranking seventh. He studied painting from his cousin Juchao when he was young. When he was about ten years old, he went to Guangxi with Juchao. Later, he became Zhang Jingxiu's military adviser with Juchao. He was rewarded for his military service and wore Hualing. During this period, I studied the works of song Guangbao, Hua Yan, Jin Nong, Yun Shouping, Badashan people and Xu Wei. In 1848, he went to Guangxi with him and spent eight years there. He returned to Guangdong in the spring of 1856 and lived in Keyuan for 10 years. When he was 47 years old, he returned to Panyu and built "xiaoyueqin hall" to set up accounting classes. Ju Lian was educated by Jiangsu painters song Guangbao and Meng Jinyi in huanbiyuan, Guangxi. Song and Meng's painting skills were absorbed by them. After returning from Guilin, the special flowers, plants, fish, insects, feathers, bees and butterflies in the South Garden of Zhangjia in Dongguan became the objects of deliberate creation of imitative sketching, and were able to give full play to them, creating the artistic efficiency of both solid traditional painting skills and wonderful natural images. He also created a new way of expression in Mogu painting, which is a new stream source for the contemporary painting custom of imitating the predecessors. < br > in 1855, Zhang Jingxiu was dismissed because of the dereliction of Xuncheng. The next year, he returned to his hometown of Dongguan, and "Erju" also returned to his hometown of Guangzhou. Later, at the invitation of Zhang Jingxiu and his nephew Zhang Jiamo, the Ju brothers went to Dongguan several times. They stayed in Keyuan and Daosheng garden of Zhang Jingxiu for nearly ten years, concentrating on artistic creation. In 1864, after Zhang Jingxiu died of illness in Keyuan, Ju Lian returned to his hometown with his elder brother's nest, and soon began to build a "ten fragrance garden" for his own painting and apprenticeship (named for planting ten kinds of fragrant flowers such as jasmine, Daphne odorifera, nocturnal incense, eagle claw, jasmine, nocturnal harmony, Magnolia, yuzilan, Prynne and Michelia), and devoted himself to painting for sale Painting for a living, and set up a library to teach apprentices, reputation day by day, many Taoli. He has cultivated a group of students from all over Guangdong and Guangxi, such as Yang Yuanhui from Guangxi, Chen Fen from Fujian, Gao Jianfu and Chen Shuren from Guangdong. Wu Yizhuang, Zhang Chunchu, Rong zuchun and Guan Huinong, who were active in the 20th century, all came from his family. Gao (Jianfu) later became the forerunner who initiated the innovation of Chinese painting after the May 4th Movement and was known as the main founder of Lingnan Painting School. His techniques and painting style were directly taught and influenced by Ju Lian.

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