Wang Fu

Wang Fu

Wang Fu (w á NGF ú), a great painter in the early Ming Dynasty, is good at landscape painting, especially at withered wood, bamboo and stone. His bamboo painting combines the advantages of various famous artists since the Northern Song Dynasty. He has a unique style of free flowing, vertical and horizontal elegant, clear and vigorous. He called his ink bamboo "the first of Ming Dynasty". The first year of Yongle (1403) began to participate in the compilation of Yongle Dadian.

Personal resume

Wang Fu, a great painter in the early Ming Dynasty, was named mengduan, youshisheng and Jiulongshan. Yuan Zhizheng 22 years (1362) may 3, born in Wuxi. He was smart and studious when he was young. He was able to write poems when he was 10 years old, and he was a disciple when he was 15 years old. He is especially fond of painting, and has studied from Wu Zhen, Wang Meng, Ni Zan and other famous painters. He was called to Beijing in 1378 and soon returned to his hometown to live in seclusion. After the 23rd year of Hongwu (1390), due to the imperial court's investigation of Hu Weiyong's rebellion against the party, he was sent to Datong, Shanxi Province for more than 10 years. In the second year of Jianwen (1400), he returned to his hometown and lived in seclusion in Jiulong Mountain (i.e. Huishan). He wrote poems and paintings and taught his disciples.

In the first year of Yongle (1403), Wang Fu was recommended to Beijing because of his good books. He served in Wenyuan Pavilion and participated in the compilation of Yongle Dadian. In the 10th year of Yongle, he was sent to Beijing to prepare for moving the capital. In the 11th and 12th years of Yongle, Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, visited the North twice, during which he created the famous eight scenes of Yanjing.

He is good at landscape painting, especially dead wood, bamboo and stone. His landscape paintings have both the style of Wang Meng and Yu Cang and the artistic conception of Ni Zan, which has a certain influence on the landscape paintings of Wumen school. But he refused to do landscape painting lightly, so later generations have a poem that "the style of giving up others is the best, and it's not easy to find the scenery at the bottom of the pen". His painting of bamboo combines the advantages of various famous artists since the Northern Song Dynasty, with a unique style of free and easy, vertical and horizontal elegant, clear and vigorous. He is known as "the first of Ming Dynasty". In the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), Wang Fu painted the picture of bamboo stove cooking tea, and Wang Da, a Bachelor of waiting and reading, wrote a preface for it, forming a precious bamboo stove scroll. This painting is deeply loved by Emperor Qianlong. During his southern tour, he once tasted two springs of water in Huishan and observed the inscription of bamboo stove painting. After the picture volume was destroyed, Emperor Qianlong imitated Wang Fu's style and wrote the first picture of bamboo stove and wrote a poem. On February 6, 1416, Wang Fu died at the Beijing Museum. He was 54 years old. The surviving paintings include the painting of ink bamboo, the painting of bamboo and crane, the painting of Xiaoxiang autumn, the painting of dead wood and bamboo, the painting of river and mountain fishing music, and the book of Wang Sheren's poems.

personal works

Ming Shi Ben Zhuan, painting history Hui Yao, silent poetry history, coral net, preface to Mr. Wang Jinyou Shi's poems, liuyanzhai Er Bi, mingshancang, collection of calligraphy and painting in Shigutang, biography of liechao poetry anthology. Poems and paintings are popular in the world: Wang Sheren's poetry anthology, youshishanfang anthology, Xiaoxiang's autumn intention, Jiangshan's fishing music, Qiulin's seclusion, bamboo and crane's double clearness, Mozhu's painting, Lugou's Xiaoyue's painting, Yanjing's eight sceneries, dead wood and bamboo's painting, Shanting's Wenhui's painting, etc.

Other information

Wang Fu, named Meng Duan, was born in Wuxi. Erudite, Gongge poetry, can book, write mountain bamboo, wonderful for a while. Hongwuzhong, sitting tired Shuozhou. At the beginning of Yongle, he used recommendation to serve Wenyuan pavilion with good books. For a long time, in addition to Zhongshu Sheren.

When Fu was not an official, he made friends with Han Yi, a native of Wu, and lived in seclusion in Jiulong Mountain. In calligraphy, the ancients have their own expectations. Meticulous painting, tour of the Qing, drunk hold pen, corridor plain wall dripping. Those who have invested in gold coins to buy a piece of paper often get up or shut up, although the rich and noble people don't care. If there is admonishment, Fu said: "the husband should judge where he is. If he is light, why should he be heavy! 】”In the capital, the one who hears the flute under the moon writes the picture of carnation. In the Ming Dynasty, when a visitor gives it to him, he will be a guest. Please write another one as a supplement. Before Fu Suo, he drew a picture and gave it back. One day, Mu Sheng, the Duke of the state of Guizhou, retreated from the court, calling his name "Fu". In the same language, "this is the Duke of Guizhou." Fu said, "I have to listen to it. I have to draw my ears." If you go there, you will be invited by painting. More than a few years later, Sheng Fu began painting with calligraphy. Then he said, "I can't leave my painting to the Duke of Guizhou. If the Duke of Guizhou has a friend, I will make friends with him. If the Duke of Guizhou wants to make friends with him, he can listen to him. " Its high introduction is not so popular.

(excerpt from biography of Wang Fu and Xia Chang in Ming History)

Note: (1) Chu (CH ǔ): a kind of tree whose bark can be used for papermaking.

② Q ú sh ū: a blanket.

Reference translation

Wang Fu, whose name is Meng Duan, was born in Wuxi County. He is erudite and talented. He is good at composing poems. He writes well. He paints landscapes, trees and bamboo stones. His (skill) is superb. During the Hongwu Period, he was assigned to guard Shuozhou because he was implicated in the crime. In the early years of Yongle, because he was recommended, because he was good at calligraphy, he worked in wenyuange. After a long time, he was promoted to Zhongshu Sheren. Before Wang Fu became an official, he was friends with Han Yi, a native of Wu County. He lived in seclusion in Jiulong Mountain, so he called himself a native of Jiulong Mountain. As for calligraphy, the ancients often demand themselves. I'm not willing to paint easily, but when I'm on a tour, when I'm in the mood for drinking, I'll hold the brush and enjoy it on the powder wall of the corridor. When people use money to buy his calligraphy and paintings, they often brush up (refuse) or refuse to accept them behind closed doors. Some people advised Wang Fu (not to do so), Wang Fu replied: "a man should know what he is dealing with. Unimportant things are like this. How will important things be dealt with?" When I lived in the capital, I heard the sound of playing the flute under the moonlight, so I drew a picture of stone bamboo. The next morning, I found the man who gave the painting to him, but he was a businessman. The merchant used the red blanket as a gift and asked to draw another bamboo to make a double. Wang Fu wanted to return the previous one, tore it up and returned the gift. One day after retreating from the court, Mu Sheng, the Duke of the state of Guizhou, called Wang Fu from behind. Wang Fu did not answer. Colleagues told him: "this man is the Duke of Guizhou." Wang Fu replied: "I didn't hear his cry. It must be that he asked me for a painting." Mu Sheng ran over to catch up with Wang Fu. Sure enough, he asked Wang Fu for painting. Wang Fu just nodded to him. After a few years, Mu Sheng wrote a letter (urging), and Wang Fu painted for him. After a while, he said, "it's not good to send my paintings directly to the Duke of Guizhou. Ping Zhongwei, the guest of the Duke of Guizhou, is my friend. Because of his friend's relationship, I will give the painting to Ping Zhongwei and wait for the Duke of Guizhou to ask him for it. " He is just like this, honest and upright.

Representative works

works

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