Wang Yu

Wang Yu

Wang Yu (1714-1748), a literati painter in the Qing Dynasty, was born in Taicang, Jiangsu Province. Together with the painters Wang Jiu, Wang Chen and Wang Su of Qing Dynasty, they are called "Xiao Si Wang". The old man of Dongzhuang, who inherited the lineage of Loudong's "four kings", likes landscape. His paintings are light but not thin, sparse and elegant, and the brushwork is between Ni Zan and Fang Congyi.

works

The handed down works include the axis of the painting of warm and green floating hills in the fifth year of Yongzheng period (1727), the axis of the painting of mountains and rivers in the fourth year of Qianlong period (1739), the axis of the painting of mountains in spring (Tianjin Art Museum), the axis of the painting of autumn in maple forest (China Art Museum) and the axis of the painting of misty sand dunes (Sichuan Provincial Museum) ）。 He wrote Dongzhuang on painting.

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The so-called "four kings" are the collective names of the four landscape painters Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Hui and Wang Yuanqi in the early Qing Dynasty. Among them, Wang Shimin, Wang Jian and Wang Yuanqi are from Taicang, and Wang Hui is from Changshu. Influenced by Dong Qichang, he copied a lot of paintings of song, yuan and Ming Dynasty. Among the "four kings", Wang Yuanqi is the youngest and the most successful. Because he is from Taicang, Jiangsu Province (also known as Loudong), he is called "Loudong painting school". At that time, the Loudong painting school was so powerful that it was admired by later generations.

Wang Yu is the younger brother of Wang Yuanqi, and his understanding of painting also comes from Wang Yuanqi. It is mentioned in Dong Zhuang Lun Hua that although painting is a kind of art, there is a way in it. If you look at the authentic works of the ancients, what kind of composition, what kind of strength, what kind of spirit "The ancient brush is beautiful, the ink is flying, the vitality is dripping, and the color of the lanrong river is real. It should be noted that this kind of charm comes from the change of wind, rain, snow, clouds and smoke in the four seasons of the morning and evening. "Therefore," if you know that there is a famous mark, you can visit it all over the world and learn from it. When you visit famous mountains, you can feel more natural pictures, which can open up your mind, integrate natural hills and valleys, and gather all kinds of beauty, then you will become a famous pen. " It can be seen that from the height of "Tao", Wang Yu can understand the relationship between the traditional essence and the nature's isomorphic rhythm, so his paintings can not simply be based on the theory of "leaving life" and "mud and dirt", but should recognize his insight into the inner meaning of tradition and life.

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Wang Yu, whose date of birth and death is unknown, was a painter in Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of the word, Dongzhuang, Taicang people, Wang Yuanqi cousin. He is good at landscape painting, learning from Yuan Qi, the king of France, and other scholars in song and Yuan Dynasties. The landscape painting is sparse but elegant, light but not thin. He was about 70 years old and died in the middle of Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty.

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[name] a picture of the emerald trees on the South Mountain by Wang Yu of the Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

[introduction] vertical axis, paper, 119cm in length. Collected by Beijing Palace Museum.

The picture shows the winding mountains on both sides of the river, the winding middle stream of a stream, and the clouds and fog in the distant mountains; among the rocks and trees on the side slope of the stream, there are villages and mountain dwellings. The realm is far-reaching. With dry brush Cun rub, light ink rendering, use more dense points, brushwork loose show, color set light Jiang. There is a self Title: "the empty mountain is lonely and green, the stone is used as the screen, the tree is used as the shoulder, the day is used to draw people, and there is nothing to do, eating Chi, drinking stream and reading Huang ting.". Ren Yin, in the autumn of September, imitated the painting of the jade accumulated in the Jiunan mountain of his son. He was honored to wish Mr. can wengnian his 70th birthday, and asked to be Mr. Wang Yu of Loudong. " Renyin was written in 1722, the 61st year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.

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