A person who can paint flowers and birds with a fairy style-Shen Quan

2020/04/2912:50:27 history 1526

Original title: A person who can paint flowers and birds with a fairy style-Shen Quan

Shen Quan A well-known flower and bird painter in the middle of Qing Dynasty. His paintings have an outstanding reputation not only in China but also abroad, especially in Japan. He was once hailed as "the first foreign painter" by the Japanese.

Shen Quan with the word Hengzhi, Nanping, and his studio called Hengzhai, a native of Xinshizhen, born in the 21st year of Kangxi (1682) and died in the 25th year of Qianlong (1760). When he was young, his family was poor, and he learned the craft of paper-making from his father. This was the beginning of Shen Quan's contact with art. Shen Quan has high attainments in calligraphy, but the handed down works are rare. The ink marks left by him are only the signatures in the paintings, but this also shows some of his calligraphy art. The early Qing Dynasty was a period of revival of Chinese calligraphy, and calligraphers appeared in large numbers. From the existing ink marks, one can see that the book series of Shen Quan started from Wei Bei and Han Li, from shallow to deep, step by step, with both inheritance and innovation. Taking the essence from calligraphers of the past dynasties, and trying to figure out the charm of the calligraphy of the predecessors, his calligraphy is beautiful, beautiful, elegant and full of fresh air. The method of Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Meng has both reached the level of perfection. Point.

Qing Shen Quan "Bird Picture"

Shen Quan started to learn painting at the age of twenty. He sought out teachers and friends to explore painting principles, and traveled far away. His paintings were mastered from the Southern Song Dynasty, and recently inherited the techniques of the famous flower and bird painter 林良、吕纪 of the Ming Dynasty. In his middle age, his paintings were well-known in Jiangnan. Chinese painting has a long history, and ancient hieroglyphs evolved from pictures. According to legend, it began in the Han Dynasty, and flower-and-bird painting is the origin of later generations. Throughout the Ming Dynasty, through Lin Liang and Lu Jizhi's refinement and innovation, flower and bird painting occupied a certain position in the history of Chinese painting. Shen Quan faithfully inherited the painting style of the Ming Dynasty, but he is not only inheriting, but also dedicated to creating new ideas, adding vitality, and forming his own unique style of painting. Throughout Shen Quan's works, he is known for his elegance, majesty and vitality. He follows the principle of realism, and refines and elucidates the true feelings of nature through the elixir to make it conform to the natural reality. For example, the charm of the pine tree in the "Song Deer Map" published in "Deqing Geographical History" is displayed with real brushwork and splashing techniques, and coupled with the delicate and precise sika deer, the painter's delight in nature, vividly and vividly On paper. The author was once fortunate to admire a painting of "Meihe Crane" by Shen Quan, which was subscribed with "Xinhai Xiaochun Nanpin Shen Quan's writing" and was stamped with two seals of "Nanpin". The picture is a vigorous old plum with lush branches, dark fragrance and shadows, with white cranes next to it, independent of the rough mountains and rocks, with the charm of high wind and bright festivals. The feathers of the cranes are painted quite distinctively: the belly feathers are plump and the back feathers are like snow. The author uses a magical brush to depict the lifelike appearance of the white crane. This is the result of the artist's careful observation of life. The rugged rocks in the painting are only slightly chopped with a simple pen and axe, and dyed with light ink, which gives a sense of strength. "Plum Crane Picture" has simple and elegant colors, like the wind and snow, and the strength of character is still there. It is the masterpiece of Nanpin master.

Qing Shen Quan "Song Mei Double Crane Picture"

In the 9th year of Yongzheng (1731), Shen Quan in the year of fate was invited by the king of Japan to teach painting in Nagasaki. His paintings shake the Japanese painting forest and are regarded as arches. The Japanese admire him very much. There are thousands of scholars, among which Yuanshan Yingju is the most famous. Shen Quan once left five large-scale paintings in Nagasaki, which were unfortunately destroyed in the Second World War. In the 11th year of Yongzheng, Shen Quan returned to China, and the King of Japan gave him a lot of gifts. Shen Quan lived in Suzhou in his later years and continued to work tirelessly on the study of calligraphy and painting. He passed away in 1760, seventy out of nine throughout the year. There is a biography of Shen Quan in city and county chronicles.

Qing Shen Quan "Peacock Magnolia Peony Picture"

Shen Quan’s masterpieces include: "Autumn Flower Raccoon Slave Picture", "Peach Peach Double Pheasant Picture", "Five Lun Picture", "Hundred Horse Picture", "Golden Pheasant Autumn Flower Picture", "Plum Blossom Duck Picture", "Yellow Jialian Cicada", "Imitating Linliang Reed Goose", "Meihe", "Song Deer", etc., are too numerous to mention. For more than three hundred years, his works have been distributed both at home and abroad and are deeply loved by people. It is said that his works are also in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the Palace Museum in Taiwan also has his paintings. Favor.

In the ninth year of Yongzheng (1731), Shen Quan was invited by the king of Japan to teach painting in Nagasaki, Japan for three years. According to legend, he had a younger brotherThree thousand sons. For more than two hundred years, his works have been distributed both at home and abroad. The Palace Museum in Beijing and the Palace Museum in Taiwan have collected his paintings. In recent years, he has also been favored by collectors in Hong Kong and overseas calligraphy and painting auction markets.

Qing Shen Quan "Song Mei Double Crane Picture"

According to textual research, Shen Quan's son is Shen Nangong, his nephew is Shen Tianxiang, and Shen Nangong has no heirs. Shen Tianxiang inherited Shen Quan’s inheritance incense and gave birth to Shen Fengxiang, Shen Fengxiang gave birth to Shen Chunjiang, and Shen Chunjiang was Shen Meiyu’s grandfather. Shen Meiyu also recalled several past events: In the second month of the lunar calendar in 1960, dozens of ancestral tablets were found in her family, including the names of Shen Quan, Shen Tianxiang and others. There was a plaque inscribed in the hall of the family, "Imperial Gifts, Yiyuantang, Twenty Years of Qianlong", and a pair of pillars. The last words of the upper and lower lines were "Yi" and "Yuan". Unfortunately, it was both in 1974. Burned. When she was a child, she also saw a flower and bird painting at home. The signature was "Shen Quan Nanping, an 81-year-old man at the age of Qianlong Renwu."　