Chapter 553 Controversy
“Are you familiar with Jing Hao?” Director Yuan was surprised: “Don’t he just have a copy of “Kuang Lu Picture” handed down from generation to generation? It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.”
"Ah? Oh yes," how could Zhou Zhi dare to say that he was holding Jing Hao's "Shu Mountain Pictures" restored by his fourth cousin in his hand? , I pulled it out and took a closer look when I had nothing to do. I was very familiar with Jing Hao: "I have a high-definition pictorial of the treasures of the National Palace Museum in Taipei at home. The manager of the Art and Design Mall gave it to me." The key to this painting is that there have been various controversies about this painting before,” Director Jiang said.
“Can this painting still be controversial?” Zhou Zhi pointed to the long inscriptions and postscripts on the front and back of the scroll, as well as Shen Zhou’s poem: “Such a long inheritance record, coupled with such exquisite calligraphy …”
Then he kept shaking his head: "No, it will definitely not be an imitation."
"You said you are not familiar with Shen Zhou, how come you still study his calligraphy?" Director Yuan asked.
"I'm not familiar with him, but I'm relatively familiar with Huang Tingjian." Zhou Zhi said: "The calligraphy in the painting is obviously out of the Huangshan Valley. It cannot be imitated by ordinary people who can write with such accomplishments." "
Zhou Zhi had in his hand a large seal of landscapes and fields inscribed by Huang Tingjian with Dongpo's poems on it. The poems written by Su Dongpo on it were Huang Tingjian's calligraphy. Zhou Zhi couldn't put it down and played with it all the time.
Furthermore, Huang Tingjian served as an official in Manzhou, visited Mount Anle in Jiachuan, and left behind poems. Therefore, Zhou Zhi also collected Huang Tingjian’s calligraphy from Aiwu and Wudi, and was very familiar with Huang Tingjian’s calligraphy. It couldn't be any more familiar.
Director Jiang is also a calligrapher and nodded with a smile: "What you said is really good. Shen Zhou was greatly influenced by Taige's calligraphy style when he was young. After middle age, he followed the four calligraphers of the Yuan Dynasty in painting, and the three calligraphers of Su, Huang and Mi of the Northern Song Dynasty. , until after the age of fifty-four , just now specializing in the Huang family, and completed a breakthrough change in calligraphy style a few years later. "History of the Ming Dynasty" records that "the calligraphy imitates Huang Tingjian", and his contemporary calligrapher Wang Hao also said: "The calligraphy is Fu Weng, Qiu Jin" Strangely stubborn. '"
"There are some differences. In Shen Zhou's hands, Huang Tingjian's 'Dangjing Brushwork' is less wanton and more reserved." Zhou Zhi commented: "However, the vitality of the child is not less at all, but it is suppressed. It's like being pressed down by a stone The grass has more elasticity and vitality that is about to explode."
"Those who can imitate such calligraphy don't need to imitate it."
" What do you mean?" Director Yuan didn't understand.
"Hahaha..." Director Jiang said with a smile: "The elbow means that anyone who can write calligraphy to such a level must be a famous person. There is no need to fake and imitate others, just sign your own name, it's all Everyone’s favorite.”
"So that's it..." Director Yuan understood.
Director Jiang said with a smile: "Shen Zhou's evaluation of Huang Tingjian is: 'Huang Wenjie is true to his deeds, and he has an unyielding and indelible spirit. Today's common people like to comment on Su and Huang Ergong, using a rope-ink scale. Who knows the book? I said that the official letter of Wenjie is so dense and dense in the pen and ink that no one else can reach it. '"
"What a coincidence. Gu's evaluation of Su Dongpo at that time was also "the spirit of asking the article is full of vitality in the pen and ink, and no one else can match it."
"Today's evaluation of Shen Zhou is also "elastic" and "about to erupt." If Shen Zhou were here, he would be a confidant."
"So my analysis is correct?"
"Otherwise, there is still something wrong with what you said." Director Jiang said with a smile: "It is not necessarily correct to judge that a painting is authentic based on the original calligraphy for Shen Zhou."
"Why is this?"
"Because Shen Zhou is an easy-going person, he has remained innocent and very interesting throughout his life."
"When someone asks for a painting, he usually agrees, whether it is a merchant or a high official, without asking whether the other person has any Still no money Money. So much so that his friends wrote poems to laugh at him: Returning to the east to collect the debt from traveling to the south, he would have to turn into a golden immortal. "A prefect asked for a painting, and Shen Zhou painted a picture of "Five Horses in Spring" for him. The prefect didn't know. 'Wuma' is the nickname for the prefect, which makes me a little unhappy. "I only have five horses and no one accompanying me." When Shen Zhou found out, he drew six more followers and gave them to him. He also joked: "I have no choice but to draw three pairs of ceremonial guards.""
"Later, when the prefect came to Beijing, Li Dongyang, the big bosses along the way, all asked him about the treatment of Shen Shitian, and his words were quite polite. Only then did the prefect know how high-end Shen Zhou's circle of friends was."
"Official business. Foreign Currency Governor When he returned home, he came to apologize in person, but Shen Zhou didn't say anything and happily invited him to dinner. "
"But what does this have to do with the fact that Shen Zhou's calligraphy cannot be used to authenticate the paintings?" Zhou Zhi. The more I listened, the more puzzled I became.
"Of course there is a connection. Shen Zhou was already very famous at that time. Once a painting came out, it would attract countless people to imitate it, and many of the fakes were very accurate."
< br>“And the most amazing thing is that many people take the fakes as genuine and cautiously pray to Shen Zhou’s door, asking him to leave an inscription on the painting.”
"Ah?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but be happy: "Is this just like asking NBA stars to sign their pirated sneakers?"
"But Shen Zhou himself didn't take it seriously." Director Jiang said: "When I met In this case, Shen Zhou usually would not refuse, and would happily write his own inscriptions, calligraphy, etc. on the fakes. The poem is also stamped with his own personal seal."
Zhou Zhi put his hand on his forehead: "Isn't this too easy-going? Doesn't this make it more difficult for future generations to distinguish the authenticity?"
< br>Shaked his head: "But this painting is definitely authentic."
"Continue."
Zhou Zhi thought for a while: "The mounting of collections has its own fixed format. From the beginning to the end, it is the outer label, the lead, the front water barrier, the heart painting, the back water barrier, and the tail."
This painting has many inscriptions, inscriptions and seals on parts other than the heart, which will provide us with specific information about collectors and appreciators. There will definitely be a lot of collectors in there that we know about. "
"That's not necessarily the case. "Director Jiang seemed determined to raise the issue today: "Counterfeiters often cut inscriptions, inscriptions, and seals from some worthless or broken ancient scrolls, and then pass them off as fake collection and appreciation seals, which is not enough. "
"Things like that can only fool laymen. Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Since this painting is "Imitation Ni Yunlin Landscape Scroll", then later appreciators will naturally focus on the series of Jing Hao Guantong, Dong Yuan Juran, Ni Zan and Shen Zhou when appreciating the inscriptions and postscripts. On top of inheritance. ”
“If it were a fake that was cut and pieced together, it would be impossible for the theme to be so complete. "After Zhou Zhi finished speaking, he pointed at Shen Zhou Xiujin's calligraphy on the painting: "Here, the author has actually defined the topic of discussion. ”
But it was a poem and note written by Shen Zhou on the painting.
"The one who knows the roundabouts is Jingguan's hand, and Liao Fu writes about Suqiu from the roundabouts. I don't know that the west mountain is not refreshing, so I bow my head in the east field. The painting by Shen Zhou of Changzhou has the same title."
"This The poem is a bit difficult to interpret," Director Yuan said with a frown.
(End of this chapter)