The development course of freehand brushwork landscape

Great freehand brushwork was initiated by four schools in the Yuan Dynasty to Xi Shi, Jian Jiang, Shi Tao and the eight great monks, and the change of immortals has always overshadowed the predecessors. Jian Jiang in the Eight Bamboo Slips used a pen to express his characteristics, while Xi Shi and Shi Tao used artistic conception to express his characteristics. As for Shi Tao, he is particularly remarkable. When talking about the Huangshan Mountain he painted himself, he said: "There is no need to designate a place to give Huangshan Mountain its temperament. He also said, "What you see in your eyes when you go out is a sketch." And he said, "Those who use light ink to draw bald pens are all half-dry. Write an empty hook straight on the paper, like insects eating leaves, and then add it again with Jiao Mo. When you see the yin and yang points, write a tree. It's best to pass a cone through with a pen. " This simple sentence simply tells the secret that the painter has not passed on.

Freehand brushwork is a painting method relative to meticulous painting. It needs extensive and concise pen and ink to describe the shape and spirit of the object to express the author's artistic conception. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzong ordered painters Li Sixun and Wu Daozi to paint the scenery of Jialing River together in Datong Hall. Li Sixun is good at meticulous painting. It took him several months to finish this mural. Wu Daozi painted three mountains and rivers in Jialing, Vandory in one day. It is conceivable that he can't paint with meticulous and colorful techniques. It must be broad and concise. This shows that there was a difference between meticulous painting and freehand brushwork.

In Song Dynasty, Su Shi put forward "literati painting", arguing that painting "does not seek similarity", but expresses the author's subjective thoughts and feelings through writing feelings. The only painting he left behind was a dead tree and a stubborn stone, with one or two bamboos exposed behind the stone and several fine grasses under the tree. This painting expresses his thoughts and feelings that he is not satisfied with politically, but the great calligrapher speaks highly of him, saying that the branches are "bent without a clue" and the stones are "grotesque, like a hollow chest". After the Yuan Dynasty, freehand brushwork prevailed with simple brushwork, vivid modeling and hearty and interesting style. In this way, freehand brushwork and meticulous brushwork, which abide by tradition and law, have formed two schools with different styles, and they are competing to shine in the painting world and handed down from generation to generation.