Ni Zan's Landscape Paintings Have and Artistic Characteristics

Ni Zan (1306-1374), the character Yuan Zhen, No. Yunlin. He was a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Ni Zan is good at painting landscapes, bamboo and rocks, dead trees and other scenes, his landscape master of the previous generation of great masters such as Dong Yuan, Ju Ran and so on, and on the basis of the development of the predecessors, to create a unique realm of landscape painting, his painting method is simple and simple and light, the tone of naive and natural, in order to win the light and simple. Ni Zan's landscape works mostly depicted the landscape scenery around Taihu Lake in Jiangnan, where he lived, and he was good at painting withered trees and flat mountains, bamboo and rocks, and thatched cottages, with extremely simple scenery. His compositions are far away, and his landscapes are simple and light, in pursuit of resemblance. His paintings were mostly chapped with dry brushes, and his brush and ink were extremely simple, the so-called "intentionally or unintentionally, if light or sparse", forming a school of rusticity and slowness. Ni Zan advocated that paintings should focus on expressing subjective feelings, and he believed that paintings should express the author's "chest of escape", without seeking resemblance, Ni Zan wrote in the "Reply to the Book of Zhang Zaozhong", "the so-called paintings of the servant, but the escape of the brush, without seeking resemblance, and chat to entertain themselves". These words succinctly express Ni Zan's idea of painting, that is, the work should express the painter's "chest of escape", emphasizing the subjective expression of the mood, and opposing the deliberate pursuit of work and resemblance. At the same time, Ni Zan was a calligrapher, specializing in regular script, with an ancient, light and elegant style, in the style of the Wei and Jin dynasties. His works are often calligraphy and painting as a whole, sparse and simple, a faction of naive and natural to escape from the world.