Chapter 1378 Cheap
Grandma Yuan brought Zhou Zhi to Rongbaozhai to buy a large number of paintings and calligraphy from modern calligraphers and painters. This matter has already changed. Zhou Zhi spent a large amount of money again this time. , once again purchased a large amount from Rongbaozhai, amounting to more than two million.
Of course it is a big customer.
The incident actually arose from the restoration of "Two Monkeys in the Leaves".
Of course Rongbaozhai will not sell the restored "Two Monkeys with Columbine Leaves" in the short term. It will be displayed as a treasure of the museum for a long time, and the final outcome will have a big impact. It may be that they were recruited by the state and put into museums, and then it would be difficult for them to enter the market.
Zhou Zhi was itching to see this painting, so he asked the two elders, since many ancient painting critics unanimously regarded the deer ape painting as Yi Yuanji's "special work", and "the secular world cannot peek into his vassal", then why should Yi Yuanji do it? After Yuan Ji, is it true that no one can draw at his level anymore?
The two elders looked at each other and gave an affirmative answer, yes, Zhang Daqian.
Zhang Daqian once painted a picture, which is also the theme of two apes. The title is "Picture of Two Apes of Yi Yuanji", which was blatantly pirated.
However, there is also the confidence to be blatant in name. That painting really imitated 99% of the essence of Yi Yuanji.
However, Zhou Zhi inquired again and found out that the painting is now in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and is not yet on display. It can only be seen in their publications.
Seeing Zhou Zhi's disappointed expression, Grandma Yuan smiled and said: "If you like apes and monkeys, there are actually several painters whose works are pretty good."
"Who?" Zhou Zhi immediately became interested.
“For example, Zhang Shanzi, Zhang Daqian’s brother.” Grandma Yuan said with a smile: “Zhang Daqian first learned the technique of painting apes from Zhang Shanzi.”
The next day, grandma took Zhou Zhi with her. When I came to Rongbaozhai, I called on the names of several painters.
Gao Qifeng, Zhang Shanzi, Zhang Qiyi, Zhou Beixi, Liu Jiyao, Zhao Shaoang, Feng Dazhong.
In fact, up to now, Zhou Zhi has included works by modern and contemporary painters in batches several times. Including Li Keran, Wu Guanzhong, Jiang Zhaohe, Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Wu Changshuo, Yu Youren, Lin Sanzhi, Sha Menghai, Xie Wuliang, Qi Lao, Wang Lao, Fan Zeng, Ouyang Zhongshi, Liu Bingsen, Wu Changshuo, Shen Peng, Li Duo Everyone.
These are the big names in the first echelon. Zhou Zhi owns their works, most of which are masterpieces. He bought them from places such as Shudu Gongmei, and occasionally picked up some.
For example, Zhang Daqian, Zhou Zhi now owns landscape paintings of representative styles of each period, except for the last splash-color landscape painting, which he has not yet acquired, all the others have been collected.
Later I visited the capital, and under the leadership of Grandma Yuan, I collected a large number of painters' works from the Painting Academy, Panjiayuan, and Rongbaozhai.
At that time, Grandma Yuan had the idea of grabbing wealthy households to help poor artists. In addition to the works of Bashu famous artists that Zhou Zhi deliberately collected, they were all painters with great potential and their works were very cheap.
The rest is the harvest from several house searches, including the latest house search of my own house, where I also obtained a large number of works by modern calligraphers and painters.
However, most of these works are landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, and mammals are mostly cows, horses, donkeys, and tigers.
Real animals with fluffy fur and furry fur are rarely depicted in Yi Yuanji's way.
It was only after listening to Grandma Yuan’s explanation that Zhou Zhi realized the special nature of this painting method. In the original Chinese painting techniques, the depiction of animals started from freehand brushwork, usually sketching first and then dyeing. Later, after development, a new technique for flowers and birds - "boneless painting method" - was used for butterflies and birds.
However, this painting method is extremely difficult to apply to mammals. Yi Yuanji's painting of apes is a special example.
On the contrary, on an island country across the sea, some similar techniques were developed under the influence of Western watercolor painting.
When Gao Qifeng was a boy, he studied painting with Ju and his father and brother. Later, he traveled east to Japan and had an in-depth study of the techniques of famous artists of the Kyoto School. Later, it became the most established system that emerged after the Shanghai School of Painting. The most influential painting school. Together with his father Gao Jianfu and Chen Shuren, they are known as the three founders of "Two Gao and One Chen".
He carried forward the fine traditions of traditional Chinese painting. In terms of painting techniques, he used the "boneless method" to depict animals instead of the outline method, and used the "bumping water" and "bumping powder" methods to depict flowers, combined with Western watercolor painting. The technique is applied to birds, animals and landscapes to achieve lifelike and vibrant effects.
This is the famous "Lingnan School of Painting".
Several other painters also have such backgrounds.
For example, Zhang Qiyi, whose great-grandfather Zhang Deyi served as the Qing government’s envoy to Europe, was the only Chinese who witnessed the entire process of the Paris Commune Revolution. He studied Western art at Hebei Art Normal School, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Department of Furen University. Painting techniques.
Liu Jiyou, known as the “all-rounder in Chinese painting,” was educated by his father in the Western Painting Department of TJ Municipal Art Museum. He systematically studied drawing, sketching, watercolor, and oil painting under the guidance of oil painter Liu Fenghu.
Zhao Shao'ang was first Gao Qifeng's apprentice, and later engaged in printing design and plate making for a period of time, and then specialized in traditional Chinese painting.
Only Zhou Beixi, known as the "Monkey King of Bashu" and self-taught, was less influenced by Western styles and found a "traditional path" in painting monkeys. He can also be regarded as another example of the saying "Bashu produces geeks" Verified.
Generally speaking, Yi Yuanji's deer ape painting method has been basically unique for thousands of years. It was not until the west wind spread to the east that a large number of Western techniques were absorbed by Chinese painting talents, who integrated them and achieved breakthroughs in their own creations. with antagonists.
The introduction of the theories and techniques of Western painting was actually a watershed and leap forward for Chinese painting. However, later Chinese painting went on a "downhill road" because painters paid more and more attention to the study of paintings and ignored the use of books. On the one hand, it gradually drifted away from the creative spirit of Chinese painting, eventually turning Chinese painting into "Chinese-style Western painting", re-disconnecting painting from calligraphy, and losing the soul and essence of "calligraphy as painting" developed in the Song Dynasty. .
There is nothing that can be done about this. Zhou Zhi thought that he would have to wait for the next leap forward in Chinese painting, which would be the time when a person who is "unparalleled in calligraphy and painting" reappears.
However, until he traveled through time himself, such characters seemed to be rare and increasingly rare.
It’s no wonder that the paintings of the first generation of Shanghai-style Chinese painters, who had both a foundation in traditional Chinese painting and an influence in Western painting, and the generation they said they radiated from them, will be highly sought after in the next few decades. , the appointment becomes more and more expensive.
The outstanding ones such as Zhang Daqian, Xu Beihong, etc. are actually now outstanding. Fortunately, the ones named by Grandma Yuan, Gao Qifeng, Zhang Shanzi, and Zhang Qiyi, belong to the second echelon of modern painters and the first echelon of modern painters. Liu Jiyao passed away just ten years ago, while Zhou Beixi and Zhao Shaoang are still alive. Feng Dazhong is only in his forties and still belongs to the ranks of "young and middle-aged painters".
Therefore, these paintings are not expensive at all now.
Cui Ruzhuo’s painting Zhouzhi gave him 200,000 yuan. That was because he had sixteen of his largest paintings, plus a masterpiece equivalent to the largest painting of Chapter 16, which is equivalent to spending 20 yuan. Wan won 32 "Da Zhang Er" works and turned them into a series, which cost an average of 6,000 yuan a piece.
According to the calculations of later generations, the two feet is 48 square feet, and the total is only 1251 square feet. It is almost as cheap as grandma’s house.
(End of this chapter)