Lu Hao

Lu Hao

Lu Hao (after 1813-1894) was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.

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Lu Hao is famous for his landscape paintings. He is from the people of the Yuan Dynasty, the schools of Wu in the Ming Dynasty and the four kings in the early Qing Dynasty. According to the record in the scroll of clouds of pines in ten thousand valleys written by Mr. Xiao Ping, Li zuishi, the teacher of Xu Bangda, a famous contemporary appraiser, is a disciple of LV Hao. This shows the whole process of the inheritance and change of Jiangnan landscape painting in more than 100 years.

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From his few handed down works. His brush and ink directly inherited from the four kings of the early Qing Dynasty, and adopted the southern clan's family law. His writing style was careful and strict. His use of ink method is particularly outstanding, elegant and profound, gloomy and gentle. Lu Hao's landscape is a copy of Wang Yuanqi's original. Wang Yuanqi is famous for his thick and vigorous landscape, especially for his strong brushwork. He is called "King Kong pestle" in his works. Lu Hao's temporary work, which is based on Wang Yuanqi's original work, uses thick dry brush as the bone and elegant light ink as the flesh. With a very rigorous style, it lays the foundation of the whole work. The rich level and delicate ink method are not acceptable to the four kings. The thick ink of the painting is more vivid and flexible. It can be used as a brush. It is unimaginable to achieve such skill without decades of painstaking study. Another valuable feature of this work is that there are two famous inscriptions and postscripts. One of them is the postscript of jinxinlan. Jin Xinlan (after 1841-1925), named Lengxiang and blind cow, is the owner of blind cow nunnery No.1, and the owner of Lengxiang hall. He is from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). As one of the 60 masters of modern maritime art, Wang Chen, who is the king of the "four little kings" and is good at flowers, especially Mei painting, is like Wang Shishen. In his later years, he became ill, and after the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, his paintings became more and more ancient. Together with Wu Changshuo, Ni mogeng and Wu Guxiang, they are called "seven sons of Yiyuan" in Suzhou. Jin Xinlan's postscript praises Lu Hao's artistic attainments with such verses as "the boundless self absorbed", "the understanding of Mohism" and "there is a substitute in writing about yunluan". The second is Lu Hui. Lu Hui (1851-1920) was a famous painter in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. His original name is Youhui, and his name is Youkui. His name is Lianfu, and his name is yisou. His name is Yihuo. He is the master of the broken Buddha. He is from Wujiang, Jiangsu Province, and lives in Wuxian county (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). When you are young, you will learn to work as a scholar. The strokes are vigorous and elegant, ancient and deep. Painting landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, fruits, all can not, calligraphy Han Li, next to the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, powerful and has the spirit of gold and stone. He tried to make eight pictures of Hengshan, and thought that his life masterpiece was comparable to Huang Yi's stele. Lu Hui's inscriptions and postscripts, on the other hand, preserved a rather precious historical and cultural material. It is mentioned in the article that Lu Hao is a high-profile artist, Lu Lingguang. He treats people with humility and kindness, and likes to reward posterity. Lu Hui praised him as "respecting both teeth and morality". In addition, according to the dictionary of Chinese artists' names and other books, LV Hao's birth and death has been lost for a long time. According to the information retained in this work, we can see that he was born in 1813 and was 70 years old at the time of painting; Jin and Lu wrote the postscript in the summer of 1894, and he is still alive. Therefore, we can determine the year of his birth and death from 1813 to 1894, which is the most credible evidence so far, and it is impossible to talk about without this painting. To sum up, there is no doubt that LV Hao's Shan Shui is one of the best works handed down from generation to generation. It is not only a tangible remains of his life and art, but also a precious material for a complete study of the heritage of the orthodox school of the Qing Dynasty. Although Lu Hao is not a great master, his works can not be drowned in the history of fine arts.