Meiqing

Meiqing

Meiqing (1623-1697), named Yuangong, was born in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. He was born in the third year of Tianqi (1623) and died in the 36th year of Kangxi (1697).

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In 1654, they were friendly with Shi Tao and exchanged painting skills with each other. Shi Tao's early landscape was influenced by him to a certain extent, and his later painting of Huangshan was also influenced by Shi Tao. Therefore, both Shi Tao and Mei Qing have the reputation of "Huangshan school". Mei Qing is famous for his paintings of Huangshan Mountain, and he, together with Shi Tao and Hong Ren, became the representative of Huangshan School of painting. He Tianjian, a modern painter, commented in Huangshan school and Huangshan: "Shi Tao got the spirit of Huangshan, Mei Qu mountain got the shadow of Huangshan, and Jian Jiang (Hongren) got the quality of Huangshan." He is good at poetry and calligraphy, and has written "Tian Yan Ge Ji", "Qu Shan Shi Lue" and "Huangshan Ji You".

style of art

The themes of Mei Qing's early paintings were only the landscapes and the customs of his hometown. At the age of 32, he began to devote himself to painting Huangshan Mountain. He has repeatedly ascended to more than 100 scenic spots, such as Tiandu, Lianhua, Yunmen, Guangmingding, Manjusri courtyard, lion forest, alchemy platform, putuan pine, xihaimen, etc., and is deeply intoxicated by the most wonderful mountain in the world. From then on, he was full of passion in the wonderful picturesque landscape, galloping freely, feeling nature with the heart of a poet, and expressing nature with the feeling of a painter. He not only wrote many popular beautiful poems, but also drew countless Huangshan landscape paintings with steep beauty, changing clouds and endless artistic conception, which formed a strange bond with Huangshan. He claimed that "after touring Huangshan, most of the brush and ink are Huangshan.".

Mei Qing is a master of painting Huangshan pine. People regard his Huangshan pine as a masterpiece. Xuancheng county annals says that he is "good at painting theory, ink pine is particularly strange, cangxiong is beautiful, which has never been seen in recent years, and is precious to domestic connoisseurs". Wanya says that he is "good at painting Changsong, which is as powerful as a dragon and can't be flexed. He can buy treasures as treasure, and can't be spread into China." canwei sequel postscript "says that" Wanqing is good at painting Changsong Mr. Ling Meiyuan painted pine as the first in the world.

Mei Qing's paintings, with real mountains and water as the source of creation, show the beauty of mountains and rivers, the noble character of the painter and the broad mind of the nation with full true feelings, profound cultivation of poetry, calligraphy and painting, and superb artistic skills.

Mei Qing is also a great friend. He made many friends in his life, such as men of insight, poets, calligraphers and painters. He is open-minded, studious, persistent, unrestrained, and has deep feelings with people, among whom Shi Tao is the first to share the same ideals. Shi Tao had come to Xuanzhou many times to talk about poetry and painting in Tianting Pavilion, where Meiqing painted. They shared their heartfelt feelings and traveled to Shuangta and Aofeng together. Mei Qing wrote in his long song of Shi Gong's coming from Huangshan Mountain to see Yijia's painting: "I write about the clouds of Mount Tai, and the clouds fly to the stone waves; he writes about the clouds of Huangshan Mountain, and goes to dye Qu's clothes. The white clouds are all over the eyes, and the roots of the clouds are returning to the spiritual realm. When the Duke would travel to Dai Dian, Mei Yu had already prospered in Huangshan. "

Mei Qing is a master of poetry, calligraphy and painting. His paintings have an important influence on "Huangshan painting school" and "Xin'an painting school". His works are collected in Beijing Palace Museum and Anhui Provincial Museum.

Mei Qing is good at mountains and rivers, pines and stones, especially Huangshan. He said that "after visiting Huangshan, most of the paintings are Huangshan." Huangshan, in his works, wins with momentum, and his brushwork is flowing and bold, and his ink is flowing and flowing. The scenery is very dangerous, winding with lines, full of sense of movement. The painting style is different from that of Xin'an school. He went deep into Huangshan for a long time. More realistic pictures of Huangshan. Although he often claimed to learn from Yuan Dynasty, he had his own unique creation. His style is elegant and elegant, showing the changing clouds and smoke of the mountains, and the pines are strange and grey. Used to use cirrus Cun, give people a sense of boundless. His collection of 24 sceneries of Xuancheng can be regarded as the most disgusting work in his life. He is known as a master of landscape and a master of pine. He also painted plum, whose plum paintings are full of clouds and branches. The axis of the painting of mountains and rivers, which was made at the age of 72, is now in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing. The vigorous brushwork, the sound ink color, the texturing method and the use of points all have more Shi Tao's charm. In Mei Qing's works, we can see the skill in relaxation, seek the whole rank in disorder, the longitude and latitude are bright, comfortable and fluent.

It is collected in Tiandu building of Jinling City. Picture 1 shows the first and second pages of landscape album by Meiqing in Qing Dynasty.

Collection value

Nowadays, most collectors like Huangshan paintings. As a representative painter of Huangshan painting school, Mei Qing's works are more valued, and the price is very high. However, the range between high and low prices is also relatively high, with a difference of more than 20 times. It shows that it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false, and it is difficult to grasp the mixed quality of Pan products. When they are sold, the collectors attach great importance to the appearance of the products, causing the ups and downs of prices. Generally speaking, before 1990, the selling price was higher, but later it was slightly lower.

Memorial place

After Mei Qing died, he was buried in the street of Xintian Town, Xuanzhou. The original earth tomb had collapsed. In January 1986, Xuanzhou Municipal Bureau of culture added soil for it, building it 3 meters long and 2 meters high. The 2.5-meter-wide earth tomb has a stele, 0.46-meter-high and 0.31-meter-wide.

Related information

In 1987, Xuanzhou Municipal People's government declared Meiqing tomb as a key cultural relic protection unit at the municipal (county) level;

In May 1998, the people's Government of Anhui Province declared the tomb of Meiqing as a cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level.

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