Qiu Ying's Paintings

Qiu Ying is good at figure painting, especially ladies, attaching importance to the portrayal of historical subjects and depictions, absorbing the Southern Song Dynasty, Ma and the Yuan techniques, the brush force is robust, good at copying, pastel yellow paper, the pen messy real. As for the hair Cui Haogin, synthesize Dan strand veil, exquisite absolute escape, worthy of the ancients, especially good at using different thick and thin strokes to show different objects, or rounded and smooth, or staccato and strong, both long color, but also good at white drawing. Character modeling accuracy, strong generalization, beautiful image, smooth lines, different from the current stream of the plate carving habit, straight to the Song room, on the later Youqiu, Yu Zhiding, and the Qing Dynasty Palace painting ladies have a great impact on the beauty of the era of the ladies as a model of the beauty of the ladies, the later commented on his work of ladies, carving and painting, delicate, elegant, refined and colorful, for the Ming Dynasty, the distinguished one. His outstanding works include "The Story of Characters", "Spring Dawn in the Han Palace", and "Offerings".

Qiu Ying's landscape painting learns from Zhao Boju and Liu Songnian, develops the tradition of "courtyard painting" of Li Tang, Liu Songnian, Ma Yuan and Xia Gui of the Southern Song Dynasty, and synthesizes and blends the strengths of the previous generations, i.e., it maintains the classical tradition of neatness and refinement, but also integrates the interest of elegance and freshness to form a new paradigm of work without board, research without sweetness, and a kind of ink painting. Ink painting, from Li Tang style changes, sometimes for the boundary painting pavilions, especially fine. The painting was often made in the upper forest, with figures, birds and animals, mountains and forests, platforms and views, flag chariots, and military appearance, all of which were written in memory of the famous brush of the ancient sages and were made by deliberation, which could be a perfect situation of painting and a triumph of the art world. Zhang Chou in the "Qinghe painting and calligraphy boat" in its evaluation, said: Qiu Ying painting "rock and mountain master Wang Wei, forest and wood master Li Cheng, figure master Wu Yuan Yu, color master Zhao Boju, capitalizing on the strengths of the various schools of thought and the integration of all kinds of wonderful".

Qiu Ying had made "Guo Ziyi birthday map", the painting for the silk, brushwork heavy color, painted Guo Ziyi birthday map, the scene is grand, many characters, in the Ming paintings are extremely rare, the painting of the mountains, forests and platforms, courtyards, houses, characters saddle horses, rocks and flowers, complex and exquisite, especially the characters smooth lines, vivid and realistic, the work did not see the previous paragraph, but whether from the silk material, pigment, style, character scene layout are in line with the Ming dynasty. Although the work does not have a previous signature, it is consistent with the style of Qiu Ying in terms of silk material, pigment, style and the layout of the scene of the figures.

Qiu Ying has fewer works in circulation, of which the Shanghai Museum has only twenty-three, the most representative of the boutique "Sword Pavilion Diagram", for Qiu Ying in his later years living in the collector Xiang Yuanbian copying the masterpieces of the past dynasties, painted, the strokes of the messy real. In the picture, the mountains are dangerous, the cliffs stand like a split, the momentum is unrestrained, people and horses walking along the mountainside, or hidden or present, vividly depicts the difficulty of the Shu Road travel. The Palace Museum in Beijing is a rich collection. The most representative of the "figures landscape" book for the brushwork heavy color figures ladies painting. *** ten pages, each page depicts ancient historical figures and myths and legends. Among them, "Bamboo Yard Pin Gu", figures in clothing, slightly war (trembling) brush, imitating the Zhou Wenjue method. Zi Lu asks for the Jin", "Pipa Xing", "Princess Ming out of the plug" several, clothing lines and both orchid leaf description, layout, structure, trees and rocks and other painting methods, all imitation of the Ma and Zhi. The Concubine dawn makeup "," xiao xiao lead phoenix "two pictures, ladies Tang makeup, image of beautiful, clothes line drawing, fine and smooth, painting method from the Five Dynasties, the Song people traditionally developed. But the bird and flower paintings are few and far between, the Forbidden City received a piece of double hook orchid loose pages, almost become a book. Other domestic museums also have some works in the collection, such as the tianjin museum collection of "peach blossom wonderland map", beautiful and quiet mountains and rivers scenery, embellished with characters, adding the scenery with the intention of the wonderful.