Appreciation of Kai Liang's Works

Draw a picture of a splash-ink fairy

Famous paintings of category figures

Author Kai Liang

Song dynasty

This painting is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

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Judging from Kai Liang's painting "The Fairy Splash Ink", it is only a few strokes in a hurry, but it can outline the appearance of a lovely figure who is drunk and dreaming; The five senses are tangled in a pile, with wide robes and big sleeves, revealing a big belly, which is very funny. The head and left shoulder are rendered with a wet pen, and the weight and speed of the pen can be clearly seen. This painting vividly captures the dynamic expressions of the characters, but doesn't pay much attention to the details. This free and natural painting method will be called "freehand brushwork" or "splash ink" in China's paintings in the future. This type of painting pays attention to observation, and it needs a few simple strokes to grasp the charm of people. For example, the belt of the "immortal" has only four strokes, but it shows the shape of the stomach and the flying feeling of the belt when walking.

Almost all the immortals in the painting splash ink, describing the drunken posture of the immortals, but the simple brushwork fully shows the elegance of the immortals. Simple brush strokes fully show the elegance of the immortal. The eclectic painting method shows the artist's creativity and opens up a new realm for the development of traditional figure painting. The whole painting, within a dozen strokes, almost perfectly interprets a maverick and squinting into an immortal. His painting was completed in an instant, but it was the result of a lifetime of painting. Kai Liang's artistic creation is his true self, fueled by wine and unrestrained.

In order to show "splashing ink", Kai Liang also painted with "paper" specially, which is really different from the habit of using "silk" in the Song Dynasty! Kai Liang can be said to be a very rebellious painter with his own ideas. He may not be known at that time, but he greatly influenced the new development of Chinese painting in the future.

Li Baixing chanted pictures.

Poem by Li Baixing

Category: calligraphy and painting

Time: Southern Song Dynasty

Original ownership of cultural relics: originally collected in Yuanmingyuan.

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This painting only uses a few strokes to outline the free and easy image of a poet. Kai Liang was born wild, and often drank to drown his sorrows, so he was called "Liang Fengzi". His simple brushwork is a kind of freehand brushwork, and Li Baixing's Yin Tu embodies this bold style of painting. The pen is concise and bold, and it is expressed purely by line drawing. However, the poet's uninhibited personality and the posture of singing and walking are vividly portrayed and breathtaking. "Li Bai Xing Yin Tu" abandons all backgrounds, simply counts a few strokes, and outlines Li Bai's elegant and chic manner, which is far-reaching and intriguing, and later people call it "reducing strokes".

Cloth bag monk map

Painting Name: Cloth Bag Monk Painting

Category: calligraphy and painting

Time: Southern Song Dynasty

Present situation of cultural relics: Japanese Xiangxue art collection

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This painting depicts a bust of a cloth bag monk. The composition is concise and powerful, and the brushwork is concise and extensive. In particular, the robes of cloth-bag monks are the most prominent, with only a few strokes, vivid expressions, as powerful as painting a stone, and soft and casual robes, full brushwork and thick ink rendering. If you don't look at the upper body of the cloth bag monk, its composition seems to be a magnificent distant mountain, steady and broad. But when you draw the round skull of a monk in a cloth bag, you turn to delicate and smooth brushwork, with meticulous brushwork of eyebrows, eyes, lips and teeth, with a charming smile. Although it has a playful attitude, it shows its generosity, kindness and compassion.

Autumn willow double crow map

Silk book, color, 24.7 cm long and 25.7 cm wide. Collection of Beijing Palace Museum. The picture shows a weeping willow swaying in the wind, two crows flying around the tree, and a full moon is dull. The composition is clean and sparse, and the artistic conception is quiet. In a few strokes, the autumn sunset painting will be incisive and concise. His landscapes, figures and flower-and-bird paintings have made great achievements, which have a great influence on later generations. This painting is a rare artistic treasure. There are no rigid lines in the whole picture, all of which are composed of arc lines, which are full of liquidity. The composition of the picture is in the air, leaving no land or sky. Trees and flying crows fill the picture, which is novel and unique, giving people a sense of foresight. It can be seen that this is a rare artistic treasure. At the bottom right of the picture, the inscription is "Liang Kai" and there is a poem inscribed with the calendar of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty.

Ze's Pan Xing Yin Tu Tuan Fan

He is a very single-minded painter, good at painting landscapes, Buddhism and Taoism, ghosts and gods, imitating Jia Shigu and taking care of you. He likes drinking, and his behavior after drinking is informal, so he is called "Liang Feng (crazy)". Kai Liang's works handed down from generation to generation include Six Ancestors Cutting Bamboo, Li Bai Xing Shi, and Ink Splashing Fairy, among which Ink Splashing Fairy is the most famous.