Shangguan week
Shangguan Zhou (1665-1752), formerly known as Shixian, was later renamed Zhou. His name was wenzuo, and he was named Zhuzhuang. He was born in Guanfang, Nanshan, Changting, Fujian Province. He was a famous painter in Qing Dynasty. He was a lifelong clothist. In 1665, he was born into a peasant family in Guanfang, Nanshan, Changting.
He is highly accomplished in landscape and figure painting. Among his students is Huang Shen, one of the eight monsters in Yangzhou. "Wanxiaotang painting biography" is the most famous, and has become a model for later generations to study figure painting. However, its landscape painting spectrum has long been in the folk and has not been published.
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Shangguan Zhou is a famous folk painter in Qing Dynasty. He is intelligent, diligent, knowledgeable, good at poetry, calligraphy, seal cutting, especially good at painting. His works include the painting biography of wanxiaotang (hereinafter referred to as the painting Biography), the painting of qiaogui, the painting of Luofu Mountain, the painting of hanging sails in the Pearl River, the painting of Taige wind, the painting of Shouxing, the painting of suwu sheep, etc Ring. For example, the biography of Xiuxiang Yinglie is selected from the "meritorious officials of Ming Taizu" in the second volume of portrait, and the characters in the painting Manual of mustard seed garden are also imitated from the painting biography. Lu Xun highly praised Shangguan Zhou and bought the book of painting to send it to alexev, a woodcarver. In the history of Japanese painting of China, the * * text tells about the value and influence of "biography" and photocopies the biography.
Shangguan Zhou's landscape paintings are also very famous. In the Qing Dynasty, Dou Zhen called him "good at mountains and rivers, full of haze and considerable ink halo." Zha Shenxing has the sentence "shangguanshan people are now Hutou" in his tizhuzhuang "Luofu Mountain map", which compares shangguanzhou with Gu Kaizhi (Hutou) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Yang Lan praised Shangguan Zhou's poems and paintings for "being able to express their own ideas and cultivate their own ways, which are comparable to those of Ni Yunlin and Shen Shitian. The style of poetry is as elegant as painting. "
Shangguan Zhou wrote the poetry collection of wanxiaotang, which is called painting in poetry and poetry in painting. Such as "night over HUANGZHULING" two: "old silkworm Cong risk, this from the night. More than a thousand dreams stand up close to the Milky way. White hair and other business, qingshannai Laohe. Sun Dengyu has a whistling, bamboo stick with cloud drag. " "It's not easy to be scared when you walk on a dangerous mountain night. The moon is bright, the clouds are broad, the wind is strong and the trees are rustling. Dark stone squats like a tiger, dim smoke looks like a bridge. Without listening to the deep valley rhyme, who believes in Xiao Shao? " The poem not only expresses the heroic mood and the hardships of the world, but also vividly depicts the strange artistic conception of passing the mountains at night. In his life, he did not seek fame and fame, and did not attach power. He was clothed all his life, and he was well-known in the world. In the poem, the scenery is used to express emotion and the poem is used to express ambition.
At the age of 79, Shangguan Zhou completed his handed down work the painting biography of wanxiaotang, and later his painting the wind of Taige, with an unknown year of death.
Features of works
His figure painting method is natural and unrestrained and unique. The Qing court appreciated shangguanzhou's figure paintings very much. It was ordered that shangguanzhou, together with the famous painters Wang shigu and Wang Yuanqi at that time, draw 12 volumes of Kangxi's southern Tour (existing in the Palace Museum). There are nearly ten thousand figures in this painting. All the characters are lifelike, and their expressions are lifelike, reflecting the society and the life of the working people at that time.
Collection of paintings
Here are some paintings of Shangguan Zhou
Main contributions
Shangguanzhou's figure paintings are very famous, with many works. There are mainly "Qiao GUI Tu", "Shou Xing Tu", "Su Wu Mu Mu Mu Tu" and so on. Especially in his later years, his painting biography of wanxiaotang, which was based on historical materials, became a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation. The painting biography of wanxiaotang depicts 120 famous historical figures in ancient China, all of whom are vivid and have a certain influence on the similar works of later generations. Since its publication in the eighth year of Emperor Qianlong's reign, wanxiaotang painting biography has always been a model for studying figure painting. The most influential figure painting of Shangguan Zhou Dynasty is Huang Shen, a representative painter of his student Yangzhou painting school.
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Representative works
Chinese PinYin : Shang Guan Zhou
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