Speaking of Xu Xi Painting Academy, I believe friends who like Chinese painting will be familiar with it. Painting School, referred to as "Xu School", is one of the famous painting schools in China and one of the two major schools of flower-and-bird painting in the Five Dynasties. The most representative painters are Xu Xi, Jinling and Nanjing in Southern Tang Dynasty. He is the first flower-and-bird painter in the history of painting in China. With his outstanding genius performance and painting style, he influenced the artistic pursuit of the five generations of painters in the south of the Yangtze River, created a unique wild painting style, and formed the Xu Xi School of Painting, which had a far-reaching impact on later flower-and-bird painting.
Although there are Jiangnan cloth, this festival is ambitious, open and bold, and there are many rivers and lakes. The flowers, wild bamboo, birds, deep-sea fish, plants, insects and animals in the painting are all treasures of nature. Xu's pen and ink skills have a great influence on later generations. When Xu Chongsi, the grandson of Xu Xizhi, made his debut, the reputation of Xu Xi Painting School was gradually recognized by people. After Zhong Zhang and Wang Ruoshui in the Ming Dynasty, they successively went to Shen Zhou, Chen Daofu, Wen Zhiming and Xu Wei to form freehand flower-and-bird paintings, which competed with the Yellow Flower-and-Bird Painting School and had an impact on the flower-and-bird painting circles in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties for more than a thousand years.
The characteristics of painting school:
The shapes of flowers, trees and birds are light and beautiful, simple and natural, fresh and elegant, which is an original "ink drop method". "No bone stains, faint wildness", "Writing becomes a kind of wealth" and the style is "fresh and free and easy". [1] Pay attention to the outline of ink bone, light color, and reveal a unique style, so later people call it "the meaning of Xu Xiye".
The evolution of painting schools;
China's flower-and-bird paintings matured in the Five Dynasties, and realism is one of the signs of its maturity. The drawing and coloring of "Yellow Spring Map" laid the foundation of meticulous flower-and-bird painting, which is of historical significance to the establishment of the school. Xu Xi's mature ink-and-wash landscape painting techniques are integrated into the simple flower-and-bird painting of cloth and silk, creating new flower-and-bird painting styles, namely "dropping ink method" and "variegated color method", forming two schools of yellow meticulous painting. Since then, flower-and-bird painting has experienced ups and downs for more than 1000 years, but the painting style has been influenced by these two schools.
Xu Xi is "ambitious, open-minded and personable". He is good at painting flowers, wild bamboos, waterfowl, fish and insects, fruits and vegetables between rivers and lakes. He said to himself, "When I dropped ink, I never had anything to do with Fu, and the color was light and elegant." His paintings are coarse, fine and wild, aiming at breaking the routine. But at that time, Huang Zhu was magnificent, and the exquisite painting style caused by his works dominated the mainstream, so he was ridiculed as "vulgar and evil" and was excluded from the Royal Academy of Painting. Xu Xi sought the change of pen and ink on the basis of realism, and also complied with the general trend of painting from innocence to reality and from reality to freehand brushwork. Therefore, his painting style gradually became known, and his influence on the development of flower-and-bird painting in later generations even surpassed that of "Huang Zhu".
School influence:
Xu Xishan painted flowers and bamboos, birds and fish, fruits and vegetables, grass insects. He often walks in fields and gardens. Most of the scenery he saw was the wild bamboo, waterfowl and deep-sea fish, garden vegetables and medicinal seedlings in Huating. Every time you meet a scene, you should observe it carefully, so that it is full of vivid interest to convey and write the state of things. In painting, he violated the light color popular since the Tang Dynasty and created another expression method of using ink, that is, first writing the branches and leaves of flowers with ink, and then coloring them. This theme and painting method show his feelings and aesthetic taste as a Chu Shi native in the south of the Yangtze River, which is different from colorful lightness.
After entering the Northern Song Dynasty, Xu Chongsi had to give up his grandfather's wild flowers and weeds. There were countless peony, begonia, peony, peach bamboo, cicada butterfly and apricot trees in the palace, all of which were rich paintings. But he was unconventional and created a "boneless" painting without pen and ink.
Xu Xi and Huang Quan represent a new realm of flower-and-bird painting in the Five Dynasties, which has an important historical position. Become a model of flower-and-bird painting in colleges and universities in Huang; Xu Shui ink painting, light freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting. In this way, flower-and-bird painting has formed two schools. Since then, the development of flower-and-bird painting has been based on these two schools, which have been constantly developing and changing, gradually showing a colorful pattern. Generally speaking, the palace painting style is rich and the folk painting style is wild.