Zhang wo

Zhang wo

Zhang wo (?)? -He was a painter of Yuan Dynasty. Shuhou, a native of Huainan (now Hefei, Anhui) and later Hangzhou (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang), is a native of Hangzhou. He had a good command of literature and history, but he failed in his official career, so he attached great importance to poetry and painting.

He is good at mountains and rivers, and is good at characters. He is good at describing the beautiful and fluent style of Li Gonglin. He is good at describing the iron line, and is known as "only one person after Li longmian". Also taste for Maitreya Buddha. The lines are vigorous and elegant, the figures are vividly depicted, and the plum and bamboo paintings are also natural and graceful.

Handed down works

In the sixth year of the reign of Zhizheng (1346), he wrote a volume of Jiuge Tu, 29 cm in length and 523.5 cm in width. He painted Quyuan and the gods in Jiuge, such as "donghuangtaiyi", "yunzhongjun", "Xiangjun", "xiangmadame", "dasiming", "shaosiming", "Dongjun", "Hebo", "Shangui" and "Guoshang". There are 11 sections of Jiuge Tu written by Yuan Dynasty calligraphers 》The full text of the lyrics and Ni Zan's inscription are collected in the old collection of neifu in the Qing Dynasty, which was later carried to Tianjin by Puyi, then transported to Changchun in the puppet Manchu period, and then spread among the people, and now stored in the Jilin Provincial Museum; the scroll of the painting of visiting Dai on a snowy night is 91.8 cm in length and 39.6 cm in width, with rigorous and simple composition and elegant painting style, which is stored in the Shanghai Museum; the volume of the painting of Caotang in the west of bamboo is 27 cm in length in paper and ink In the first year of Zhizheng period (1341), he made the axis of the painting of yaochi Xianqing, which was recorded in the famous paintings of the Forbidden City

The purpose of 300 works

"The picture of visiting Dai Kui on a snowy night" depicts the story of Wang Hui's visiting Dai Kui on a snowy night in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wang Huizhi is Wang Xizhi's son. When he lived in Shaoxing, when it was snowing, he suddenly remembered Dai Kui, who was far away in Shanxi. He went to visit him in a boat overnight. When he arrived in Shanxi the next day, he asked the boatman to turn around and go home. Asked why he did not meet and returned, Wang Huizhi said: come in the mood and return with all the fun, why meet? In the painting, Wang Huizhi is sitting in the cabin, necking down and reading, with a vivid look. This picture describes the story of Wang Huizhi in the Jin Dynasty who went to visit his friend Dai Kui by boat on a snowy night. With simple lines, the painter shows the cold weather and depicts the spiritual outlook of the characters. The ancient trees on the river banks are vigorous, or thick ink rendering, or light ink sketching, which shows the painter's superb brush and ink skills and profound artistic skills. It is really a work of his life. works handed down from generation to generation include the painting of nine songs and the painting of visiting Dai on a snowy night.

Chinese PinYin : Zhang Wo