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Deliberately Pay Attention to Taste —— Zhao's "Double Hook Bamboo Stone Map"

Bamboo is one of the favorite painting themes of ancient painters in China. Because bamboo is tall and straight, restrained, open-minded, cold-resistant and immortal, ancient painters in China often regard it as a portrayal of spirit and a symbol of personality. Whether it is Mei, Lan, Zhu and Ju, or Song, Zhu and Mei, Xiao Xiaoxiu is impressively listed. As for the combination of bamboo cultivation and thin stone, it is a masterpiece of literati and painters from Song and Yuan Dynasties to the present. In the history of ancient painting in China, there are many painters who are good at writing bamboo and stone.

Generally speaking, bamboo painting can be divided into two categories: one is filled with colors with double hooks, and the other is freehand brushwork with ink (there are also colors instead of ink). The former is based on painting and devoted to form; The latter is based on writing and emphasizes Shen Feng. Zhao Mengfu said that "the stone flies as white as a pen, and there must be eight methods to write bamboo; If anyone can understand this, you should know that calligraphy and painting are the same as "Yun Yun", that is, taking dead wood and bamboo stone as examples to illustrate the calligraphy principle of Chinese painting, especially literati painting. However, in Zhao's Double Hook Bamboo Stone Map (see right), bamboo is painted with double hooks. There are three pillars on the soil slope at the bottom of the picture, which are graceful and straight out of the picture. The bamboo leaves are lush, strewn about, and graceful, especially the light green rendering, which makes the whole bamboo full of vitality and freshness.

Generally speaking, Zhao can accurately grasp the shapes of bamboo poles, nodes and leaves, with strict statutes, meticulous brushwork, interspersed positions, natural and reasonable, moderate and dense, and quite skillful and ingenious. At the front end of bamboo, the painter painted a lake stone, which is exquisite and exquisite, which is also the usual method of Chinese literati painting. Its function is to set off bamboo and stabilize the picture. It should be noted that this lake stone written by Zhao has a unique shape, its center of gravity leans forward, and its composition is quite risky. However, the painter is really commendable. There is a layer of thatch around the lake stone, which is more conducive to the harmony and nature of the picture.

Generally speaking, Zhao's "Double Hook Bamboo Stone Map" has nothing novel in content, and there are not many places that are particularly commendable in painting language and techniques. However, it is not easy for a painter to show his interest in painting in plain subjects and show his skills in his usual language and techniques, but it is impossible for ordinary hands.

The picture is a colorful paper book with a length of 128.2 cm and a width of 6 1.5 cm. It is an intentional work of Zhao in his later years and is now in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. In the era when Zhao lived, the feudal society was drawing to a close, the literati painting had declined, and the marine painting school that literati painting revived for the last time had appeared. Although Zhao has no direct connection with Shanghai School of Painting, his painting style still reveals some news about the change of painting form. Therefore, in a sense, Ye Zhao can be regarded as a transitional figure before Shanghai School.