On The Artistic Style Of Shen Zhou's Freehand Flower-And-bird Painting

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty,a group of painters led by Shen Zhou emerged one after another in Suzhou area.The "Wu men School of Painting" gradually formed and developed.They inherited the tradition of literati painting in Yuan sijia,breaking the situation of neglecting freehand painting by literati in the early Ming Dynasty,making the Zhejiang School The phenomenon that the Heyuan style school became popular in the field and the painting world began to change.Shen Zhou,as the head of the "Wu men School of Painting",not only made great achievements in landscape paintings,but also innovated in flower and bird paintings.His style is unique,especially freehand flower and bird paintings.Shen Zhou's flower and bird painters study Wang Yuan,Qian Xuan,and Muxi,etc.,the masters of Xu Xi's ink and wash paintings have expressed the artistic tradition of flower and bird paintings,advocating the interest of brush and ink,and gradually forming the subjective liberation of the painting form on the basis of the long history of teachers and teachers.The freehand style of the painting,and blending his own characteristics,creatively used the landscape painting with brushstrokes to create freehand flower and bird paintings.At the same time,Shen Zhou emphasized the combination of calligraphy and painting,writing a breath in his chest,injecting a dashing and secluded literati feeling into the picture,and enhancing the ideology of freehand flower and bird painting.The literati freehand flower and bird painting began to shine in the painting world.Although Shen Zhou's freehand flower and bird paintings simultaneously used multiple painting methods in the early,middle and late periods,there were still some changes in the style of painting,showing a certain period.The general trend is that the early years are demure and elegant,the middle age is arrogant and arrogant,and the later years are thick Good way.With the change of age and state of mind,Shen Zhou's freehand brushwork of flower and bird paintings has become more arrogant and old-fashioned.The mainstream situation of meticulous flower and bird paintings has been reversed and directly affected the rise of ink and wash freehand flower and.bird paintings in the later period.This article takes Shen Zhou's freehand flower and bird painting as the main research object and discusses it in four chapters.The first chapter mainly sorts out the background of Shen Zhou's life,the Wu faction and Shen Zhou's artistic achievements in flower and bird paintings,and reviews Shen Zhou's brilliant and brilliant artistic life.The second chapter summarizes the reasons for the artistic style of Shen Zhou's freehand flower and bird paintings:one is the development of Shen Zhou literati temperament by his family,and his freehand flower and bird paintings reveal the artistic characteristics of the literati as paintings;the second explores the Yuan Dynasty The influence of Wang Yuan and Qian Xuan's flower and bird paintings on the formation of Shen Zhou's early flower and bird paintings' fresh and elegant style;Four of them unearthed the pen and ink characteristics of Shen Zhou's landscape paintings that are compatible with each other in their use of pens and inks.The third chapter discusses Shen Zhou's freehand flower and bird paintings from five aspects:theme selection,modeling features,composition arrangement,pen and ink,and artistic depiction,and explores the unique artistic style characteristics of Shen Zhou freehand flower and bird paintings.The last chapter focuses on the influence of Shen Zhou's freehand flower and bird paintings on the painters Wen Zhengming,Tang Yin,and Chen Chun who also belong to the Wumen region in the mid-Ming period,as well as the development of later freehand brushwork and boneless flower and bird painting.