Lu Ji

Lu Ji

Lu Ji (1429-1505), a native of Yin (now Ningbo, Zhejiang Province), was named Tingzhen and Leyu. Painter of Ming Dynasty.

Personal profile

He first studied flowers and birds from Bian Jingzhao and Lin Liang, and widely imitated Tang and Song dynasties. His paintings include meticulous heavy color and ink freehand brushwork. The former is exquisite, rich in color and strict in law, while the latter is rough, casual, concise and unrestrained, full of momentum and movement. Ma Yuan and Xia GUI, the patriarchal clan of landscape painting, used a big axe to carve and paint mountains and rocks, which was vigorous and powerful. The characters also follow the courtyard style of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the lines of the clothes are simple and sharp. He began to learn the fine brushwork of Bian Jingzhao, and was also influenced by Lin Liang's ink painting method. Later, he imitated the famous works of Tang and Song Dynasties, so he became a unique contemporary. There are two styles of flower and bird painting, one is meticulous and colorful, and the other is exquisite and rich. Most of them are painted with Phoenix and crane, peacock and mandarin duck, supplemented by trees, rocks and Tanzhu flowing spring, which is both legal and lively. The other is freehand brushwork, which is simple and unrestrained, close to Lin Liang's style. He is also good at figures, landscapes and patriarchal painting of Ma Yuan and Xia GUI in the Southern Song Dynasty. His painting style of flowers and birds had a great influence both inside and outside the court at that time.

During the Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty, he entered Renzhi hall and was an official to Jinwei commander. He was a representative painter of Yuan style flower and bird painting in Ming Dynasty, who was as famous as Bian Jingzhao and Lin Liang. Its painting style can be divided into two categories, one is mainly ink and wash, slightly light color, pen is more luxurious and vertical, the other is rich color, use and craftsmanship, with rich court decoration interest. The more direct reason for Lu Ji's change from light color painting to heavy color painting is to adapt to the different tastes of different emperors. Specifically speaking, the appreciation taste of Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youfei is different from that of his father, Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen. As a result, Lu Jiduo's paintings of Phoenix, pheasant, crane, peacock and mandarin duck are full of vitality. Fine brushwork coloring and freehand brushwork, and good at combining the two. At the beginning of his life, Lu Ji learned from various schools in Tang and Song Dynasties and Bian Jingzhao of his time, and then formed his own style. He is known as the first flower and bird painting company in Ming Dynasty. It is said that Lu Ji often used allegorical techniques in his paintings to admonish the emperor. The emperor knew his intention and once said, "if you work to do something, admonish Lu Ji." His representative works include the painting of two pheasants in spring, the painting of birds in Guihua mountain, the painting of residual lotus and Eagle heron, the painting of autumn heron and lotus, the painting of five virtues and good fortune, the painting of lion head and goose, etc.

On the official position of the commander of the Royal Guards

The commander of the royal guards is the leader of the royal guards. LV Ji is a nameless commander of the royal guards, which is equivalent to a "nominal cadre". Mou bin, the commander of the royal guards who was in charge of real power at the same time of LV Ji, was at peace with LV Ji, so that LV Ji could put all his efforts into painting.

There was a painting academy in Ming Dynasty, but there was no formal establishment. Once the painter's paintings were appreciated by the emperor, it was possible to reward them with gold and silver, or even official positions. There was no formal establishment of the Academy, so it could only be attached to other departments, and eventually attached to the royal guards, so LV Ji had the official post of commander of the royal guards.

Work evaluation

Lu Ji was born in 1477 in Yinzhou (now Ningbo, Zhejiang). Hongle palace, Hongzhi Palace (15088-15088), gongzhi palace, gongzhi palace, gongzhi palace. He was good at painting flowers and birds in ancient times. He studied Bian Jingzhao for the first time, and then studied the famous works of Tang and Song dynasties. He inherited the "courtyard style" of the two Song Dynasties and emphasized color with meticulous brushwork. He was also influenced by Lin Liang in freehand brushwork.

Yuan Zong was born in the courtyard of the Southern Song Dynasty. He continued Huang's neat and meticulous painting style and goule brushwork, and carried it forward. Most of the subjects were songbirds such as Phoenix, crane, peacock and mandarin duck, mixed with rich flowers and trees. He is also a freehand brushwork artist with bold and vigorous brushwork, similar to Lin Liang, and a representative of the pro ancient school in the Ming Dynasty yuan style flower and bird paintings with Bian Jingzhao. Works handed down from generation to generation include the painting of birds in Guiju mountain, the painting of double warblers in durian flower, the painting of feather in snow scenery, the painting of bathing duck, etc. In addition to painting flowers and birds, occasionally painting figures and landscapes. His paintings are mainly based on the neat and beautiful traditional courtyard style, with accurate modeling and bright colors. But also can draw lively and lively, part-time work with the bird painting. His paintings are vivid and fresh. He was as famous as Bian Jingzhao and Lin Liang at that time. When he painted, he often admonished the emperor by means of allegory, so emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty once said: "the work of art should be admonished, and LV jiyouzhi should.". He is as famous as Bian Jingzhao and Lin Liang as a representative writer of courtyard flower and bird painting. "The picture of the lion headed goose", silk version, color. 191 cm in length and 104 cm in width. In the fine brushwork painting of the lion headed goose, looking back at the ancient plum, the goose's body is as white as jade, and its eyes are vivid. Ancient plum is vigorous and vigorous. The trees are lined with Taihu Lake stones and rose flowers. Behind the stones, there are double hook bamboos. The colors are gorgeous, setting off the white body and red crown of the lion headed goose. It is a masterpiece of Yuan style flower and bird painting in Ming Dynasty. Lu Ji, the director of the Department of finance. Now in Liaoning Provincial Museum.

"The picture of two warblers with durian flowers" describes a pomegranate branch, a flower in full bloom, and a pair of orioles perched on the branch, singing and singing, with a lively look. Fine brushwork, heavy color, goule and colorful are the typical style of the mid Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the painter, another identity of LV Ji is even more surprising: he went through Chenghua, Hongzhi and Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, and became the commander of the royal guards (the leader of the secret police). Lu Ji's flower and bird paintings are full of water and ink, and even one of the sources of Japanese screen paintings. Two ducks in willow shade and two Herons in Youjian were recorded in Tingsong Qingjian published in Japan. In 1940s, Zheng Zhenduo visited famous Chinese paintings abroad and included them in his famous Chinese paintings collected abroad. Lu Ji's two works are not only the masterpieces of panoramic flower and bird paintings in Ming Dynasty, but also the representative works of Chinese painting's influence on Japanese painting.

Auction archives

CEN Qi's imitation of Lvji flower and bird nave

Lu Ji flower and bird vertical scroll colored silk

Lu Ji's silk edition with flower and bird mirrors

Lu Jiming's dove red plum scroll

In 1950, Yu Youren wrote a cursive copy of Xin Lan Ting Xiu Yi Shi in ink and wash

Lu Ji's works

The vertical axis of the picture of peach blossom and golden pheasant in Lvji

Lu Ji's silk scroll with flowers and birds

Lu Ji's painting axis

Color silk scroll of Lvji Wulun painting

Ming Dynasty Lvji bamboo Cui Jinyu axis

Lu Ji hanque mountain tea painting vertical axis color silk painting Lu Ji peony peacock painting vertical axis color silk painting

Lu jiyutang's rich and noble vertical scroll

Luji Luyan vertical axis colored silk manuscript

Lu Ji's picture of two pheasants in spring

Color design of the vertical scroll of Lu Ji's hundred deer painting

Lu Ji flower and bird vertical scroll colored silk

Lu Jidan Phoenix Chaoyang vertical scroll

Lu Jilu's silk scroll

Lu Ji's silk scroll

The picture axis of the red plum dove in the Lvji period of Ming Dynasty

Lu Ji's painting of birds

Lu Ji hero's independent drawing axis

The picture axis of the red plum turtle dove in the Lvji period of Ming Dynasty

Lu Ji flower and bird vertical scroll colored silk

Lu Ji's biography of plum Finch and Mandarin Duck

Lu Ji and Lu Wenying's silk scroll of Dragon Girl's snake painting

The bamboo and bird paintings of the Ming Dynasty and the Lu Dynasty

(total: 72 pieces)

Collection works

An old man map of the South Pole in the Ming and Lu Dynasties

A picture of the plum tea pheasant sparrow in the Lvji period of Ming Dynasty

The picture of lotus, eagle and Heron in the Ming Dynasty

The picture of eagle and magpie in Ming Dynasty

The five virtues of the Ming Dynasty

The bird map of Guiju mountain in the Ming Lu period

A picture of bamboo branch partridge in the Ming Dynasty and a picture of bathing Fu in the Ming Dynasty

A picture of autumn Heron in Ming Dynasty

Red plum of turtledove in the Lvji period of Ming Dynasty

The collection of life in Zhuyuan in the Lvji period of Ming Dynasty

The painting of sparrow in the Lvji period of Ming Dynasty

Liuxia nine Herons in the Lvji period of Ming Dynasty

Flowers and birds in the four seasons of the Ming Dynasty

Flowers and birds in the four seasons of the Ming Dynasty

Flowers and birds in the four seasons of the Ming Dynasty

Flowers and birds in the four seasons of the Ming Dynasty

Flowers and birds under the cliff in the Lvji period of Ming Dynasty

specimen seal impression

Lvji (2), Lvji (1), lvtingzhen seal of Siming, Tingzhen (2), Tingzhen (1), Lvji, commander of Wenhua palace.

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