Chapter 324 Shuzhong Painting School
And the country now cannot produce anything that can be exchanged for foreign exchange. This is a completely different concept from the situation of the "world factory" in later generations. Therefore, in this special historical period, as long as It is something that can interest foreigners and get foreign exchange from their hands. We try our best to find out and give it away to satisfy them.
These include rare resources, valuable cultural relics, a vast market with great potential, and extremely cheap OEM costs.
These are the prices we have to pay for lagging development, and there is no way around it.
Even the paint seal used for export of national cultural relics, commonly known in the industry as "monkey butt", has been changed into four colors.
What’s even more funny is that ten or twenty years later, when the trend of national collection became popular, these “monkey butts” became something that people sought after. Many people didn’t even know that the state had organized research to solve the problem of over-production. Imitation porcelain, stamped with fire paint as export goods.
The people who resell this kind of porcelain, after tasting the sweetness, simply went out of their way to make a fake high imitation of the "monkey butt". This is even more excessive than selling high-imitation porcelain for export, and directly passes it off as a fake. It became "porcelain returned from overseas", coupled with stories that people believed to be true, and they defrauded money on a large scale.
Fortunately, this phenomenon is still very rare nowadays. At least the Shudu Gongmei brand is still one of the best in the southwest.
Shudu Gongmei is located inland, so the export task is not heavy. It only counts a few foreigners who come to visit every year to complete the quota.
Foreigners are more interested in other Shu handicrafts - Shu embroidery, bamboo silk weaving, Shu brocade, tea, silk... Even Jiachuan is producing paper umbrellas and carved wooden fans, which are also in the fine arts industry. The business scope of the shopping mall can be regarded as sharing a considerable part of the foreign exchange pressure.
There are many craft exhibits, but the most thoughtful thing is the paintings in this hall, which are all masterpieces by famous artists from ancient and modern times.
The most numerous works by famous artists in Shu are Zhang Daqian, Xu Beihong, Huang Binhong, and Fu Baoshi, while the paintings by Qi Baishi, Wu Zuoren, Zhang Shuqi, Zhao Shaoang, Li Keran, Lu Fengzi, Chen Zhifo, and Guan Shanyue are all in Shu. There are many left in it.
Nowadays, the prices are basically still "cabbage prices". Take Qi Baishi and Li Keran as examples, they only cost 100 yuan per square foot.
The next level is ancient paintings.
Sichuan landscapes have a very deep connection with many ancient painters. For example, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty once missed the beautiful scenery and interesting scenery of Jialing River in central Sichuan. Wu Daozi, who was revered as the "Sage of Painting" by later generations, took a post boat to go there. Go to Jialing River to sketch.
When he arrived at the Jialing River, Wu Daozi roamed on the river and looked far into the distance. He passed by the beautiful mountains and rivers scene by scene. His experience and feelings at that time were deeply engraved in his heart and he did not draw a sketch.
When Wu Daozi returned to Chang'an after touring the mountains and rivers of the Jialing River, when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty asked him about his painting, he replied: "I don't have a powder copy, so I will keep it in mind." Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered him to Paintings on the walls of Datong Hall.
Wu Daozi did not list the surface of the Jialing River's landscape, but grasped the fascinating realm of the Jialing River's mountains, rivers, hills and ravines, and wrote with concentration, writing in one day.
The beautiful scenery of the three hundred miles of Jialing River vividly appeared on the paper. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty admired it after seeing it.
This is the origin of the famous scroll "Three Hundred Miles of Landscapes of the Jialing River".
On the way to investigate, when Wu Daozi passed by Luoji Temple in central and southern Sichuan, he also painted a "Statue of Avalokitesvara" for Luoji Temple. The abbot declared and asked someone to outline the stone, which has been preserved to this day.
At the same time as Wu Daozi, there was another great master, Li Sixun.
Li Sixun inherited and developed the painting method of Zhan Ziqian's green landscape painting school, perfected the "green and golden" style of landscape painting, making it more mature, with obvious aristocratic colors, and was regarded as green landscape painting by later generations. A model of creation.
He pioneered the combination of green and green landscapes and gold and green landscapes, creating a "splendid" and gorgeous effect, which pushed the green and green landscapes to a peak and was known as "the number one in the prosperous Tang Dynasty". Similarly, he also made a long history in Shu, and also drew a scroll called "Three Hundred Miles of Landscapes of the Jialing River" on the orders of Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty.
There are notes recorded at that time: "At that time, there was General Li Sixun, who was good at landscapes. The emperor also announced the map of Datong Hall, and it took many months to complete it. The Ming Emperor said: 'Li Sixun's achievements in several months, Wu Daozi's achievements in one day, are both extremely wonderful. '."
The five members of Li Sixun's family are all good at painting, and the one with the highest achievement is Li Zhaodao. He is known as the same as his father in the history of painting. He is even known as "the power of his father, which is even more wonderful" and is also known by later generations. "Er Li".
After Li Sixun passed away, Li Zhaodao praised him as "the best landscape artist in the country".
As for his relationship with Shu, he left behind the famous picture scroll "The Ming Emperor's Visit to Shu".
In addition, Wei Yan, who once came from Shu, painted horses on the wall of the Chengdu hall with dots and clusters at Du Fu's request;
There was also a figure painter of the Five Dynasties who entered Shu during the Tianfu period of the Tang Dynasty. He was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting. He studied under Yan Liben and later started his own family of figure painters. He was named "Master Zenyue" by the former Lord of Shu, Wang Jian, and was given the title of Guanxiu in purple clothes.
In the Song Dynasty, it was even more exaggerated. Although there were warlords fighting in the former Shu and later Shu, the overall damage was less. Countless famous people came to Shu for refuge. The situation was quite similar to that during World War II in later generations.
As a result, a large number of painters gathered and inherited the most exquisite painting skills at that time. As a result, the development of Shuzhong art reached a historical peak.
After the Northern Song Dynasty pacified Shu, Song Taizu not only captured the lord of Shu from the north, but also recruited many painters to concentrate in Kaifeng, the capital. Among the waiting orders for the Hanlin Painting Academy, the national painting academy of the Northern Song Dynasty, half of the quotas were reserved for painters from the Later Shu Dynasty.
The style of palace flower and bird paintings from Hou Shu has been popular for more than a hundred years.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, Sichuan produced a master of Chinese ink freehand painting - Fachang.
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Fachang's paintings flowed into the island countries and had a huge impact on the island countries. His three works, "Evening Bell of Yan Temple", "Sunset in the Fishing Village" and "Guanyin Monkey and Crane", were recognized by the island countries. As a "national treasure".
Countless people have learned his painting techniques. An artist from the Song Dynasty was even called "the great benefactor of the island country's painting style".
In addition, there is Wang Duo who came to the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty;
collectively known as the "Er Shi" with Shi Tao, and together with Bada Shanren, Hongren, and Shi Tao, they are collectively known as the "Four Painting Monks in the Early Qing Dynasty" All of them have a deep relationship with Shu, and they have also left many works in Shu.
There are many more, such as Su Shi's cousin Wen Tong, who was a famous bamboo painter, and even Su Shi himself was able to paint.
There is a unique painting method in Chinese painting, which uses red cinnabar instead of ink. It started with painting bamboo and later developed into painting orchids. This was Su Shi's invention.
So Shuzhong has been a paradise and fertile ground for painting art from ancient times to the present. By the time of the Republic of China, the famous Zhangbei Pu in the south, Pu Xinshe in Hebei in the north, and Zhang Daqian in Shuzhong in the south.
Brothers Zhang Daqian and Zhang Shanzi are only the best of the Bashu School of Painting. There are also other generation painters such as Chen Yeping, Chen Zizhuang, Zhao Yunyu, Zhu Xuanxian, Zhu Peijun, and Xiao Jianchu.
Including Shi Lu, who later founded the Chang'an School of Painting after leaving Sichuan.
Because the region has profound cultural traditions and rich cultural environment, the typical style of the Bashu School of Painting is implicit and elegant in artistic conception and has profound traditional skills, especially in colors and lines, which are unmatched by other painting schools.
(End of this chapter)