Chen Rong

Chen Rong

Chen Rong, who was born in Changle, Fujian Province, was a Jinshi in the second year of Duanping (1235) of the Southern Song Dynasty. He once served as the prefect of Putian, Fujian Province. He is a famous painter in the Southern Song Dynasty. This is a picture of the people of Jinchuan County in Jiangxi Province. The year of birth and death is unknown. Chen Rong's tomb is in Changle, Fujian Province.

His poems are bold and strong, especially good at drawing dragons, and he wants to live through changes. It is also said that "Suo Weng dragon" has been handed down from generation to generation

Life of the characters

LiZong Duanping two years (1235) Jinshi, know Pingyang County. At that time, he talked about arts with famous scholars, applied great righteousness, and learned to prosper. He used to be the governor of Guozijian, the prefect of Putian, Fujian Province, and the official to the chaosan doctor. His poems are magnificent, his leisure time is full of calligraphy, and he is good at drawing dragons. Dragon painting is good at using water and ink, which is deep in the meaning of change, splashing ink into clouds and splashing water into fog. Especially when drunk and yelling, taking off the towel and moistening the ink, you can easily smear it, and then write it with a pen, or all of them, or one arm, vaguely and indescribably. Jia Sidao is not disobedient when he is drunk and insulted. He also wrote about pine and bamboo, learning Li Yu's "iron hook lock" method. In his later years, his writing skills were simple and exquisite, and those with red color could merge with Dong Yu. I also paint tiger, and I dye spot hair very carefully. There are fake copies to be handed down. The existing volume of "the picture of Kowloon" in Boston Museum is probably a copy of the Yuan Dynasty.

achievement

Chen Rong plays an important role in the history of Chinese art. "Suownglong" has become a model for later generations to draw dragons, and has been sought after by Chinese people, especially by painters since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Even in Japan, for hundreds of years, most of the paintings with dragon patterns were imitated by Chen Rong. Junichiro Koizumi, a famous Japanese painter, once sincerely commented that Chen Rong's dragon is charming and lively as it is. Only genius can draw such a picture!

By the way, Chen Rong is not only good at drawing dragons, but also pines, bamboos and cranes. Occasionally, he also paints tigers. His strokes are simple and exquisite. Therefore, he is known as "Suo Weng long", "Suo Weng he" and "Suo Weng Zhu". At that time, dignitaries and literati were honored to get suownlong. Jia Sidao, a treacherous minister and Prime Minister famous for playing tricks and extorting, raided countless gold, silver, jewelry and rare antiques all his life. However, he could not get a "suownlong" painting until his death.

auction

In March 2017, at Christie's "Fujita art collection of important Chinese art" special show in New York, a painting "six dragons" by Chen Rong of the Southern Song Dynasty was hammered at a high price of 43.5 million US dollars (excluding Commission, about RMB 300 million), with an estimated price of 1.2-1.8 million US dollars.

works

The handed down works include the axis of the painting of rain and rain, which is now stored in the Palace Museum, and the volume of the painting of the ink dragon, which is now stored in the Guangdong Provincial Museum. The axis of the painting of the cloud dragon is a great masterpiece of the authentic works in the world. It is 201.5 cm in length and 130.5 cm in width, with a poem inscribed at the bottom right: "picking the Han River, touching the song of China. Pujueshi, the harvest is successful. Travel in space. It was written by the author. " The Museum of Guangdong Province.

There are 22 works of painting dragon in Chen Rong's collections at home and abroad: 11 in Chinese mainland and in Taiwan, 11 overseas.

Among them, "Yunlong Tu" collected by Guangdong Provincial Museum and Chinese art collection and "Mo long Tu" collected by Beijing Palace Museum are authentic works identified by experts of the State Council for cultural relics appraisal. Due to limited conditions, it was a pity that the works scattered outside the mainland were not seen by the experts of the Committee at that time.

11 overseas

① Chen Rong's painting of clouds and rain, written in ink and paper, 45 cm in length, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of art.

② Chen Rong's the painting of clouds and clouds, written in ink and paper, 36.5cm in length, collected by the Art Museum of Princeton University, USA.

③ Chen Rong's chart of Shuanglong opera, printed in silk, 135.2 cm × 84 cm, St. Louis Museum of art.

④ Chen Rong's five dragons, paper and ink, 34.3cm × 59.6cm, Nelson art collection, Kansas City, USA.

⑤ Chen Rong's three Yang Qitai painting, written in ink and paper, 23.1cm in length, is a private collection in Japan.

⑥ Five dragons by Chen Rong, paper and ink, 45.2 cm × 299.5 cm, Tokyo National Museum, Japan.

⑦ Chen Rong's "six dragons", paper and ink, 34.2 cm in length, is collected by Fujita Art Museum, Japan.

⑧ Chen Rong's Dragon painting, silk ink, 187.0 cm × 111.8 cm, Tokugawa Art Museum, Japan.

⑨ Yunlong Tu by Chen Rong, printed in silk, 138.2 cm × 80.2 cm, collected in Matsui library, Japan.

⑩ Chen Rong's "the painting of the ink dragon", a silk ink pen, 185.8 cm × 106.1 cm, private collection of Japan.

"The painting of Kowloon" by Chen Rong, paper and ink, 1244, 46.3 cm × 1096.4 cm, Museum of art, Boston, USA.

The Chinese mainland and Taiwan have 11 Collections:

① Chen Rong's ink dragon scroll, printed in silk, 34.3cm × 50cm, collected by Beijing Palace Museum.

② Chen Rong's Yunlong painting, printed on silk, 205.3 cm × 131 cm, collected by Guangdong Provincial Museum.

③ Chen Rong's Yunlong painting, printed in silk, 112.5cm × 48.5cm, Chinese art collection.

④ Chen Rong's painting of rain and rain, printed in silk and ink, 173.9 cm × 94 cm, collected by the Palace Museum, Taipei.

⑤ Chen Rong's painting of the Dragon Peiyu, printed in silk ink, 210.5cm × 114.6cm, collected by the Palace Museum, Taipei.

⑥ Chen Rong's Thunderstorm rising dragon cloud (Range Rover), Taipei Palace Museum.

⑦ Chen Rong's Dragon (a collection of Tang, song, yuan and Ming Dynasties), Taipei Palace Museum.

⑧ Chen Rong's "dragon in the rain" (a collection of Ancient Books), Taipei Palace Museum.

Chen Rong, "ink dragon diagram", ink paper, Chinese mainland collection.

⑩ Chen Rong's painting of dragon with two pearls, written in ink and paper, 32.5cm × 237.5cm, private collection.

"The painting of two dragons" by Chen Rong, paper and ink, 60cm × 30.5cm, private collection.

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