Chapter 1763 Li Zhaoqing is also powerful
A large pot and electric kettle were placed in the corner of the small courtyard hall, and the water temperature was kept at 85 degrees at all times.
At the same time, there are also paste blocks made by the fourth cousin and Zhou Zhi. The paste blocks are like konjac, floating in the cold water in large pieces and placed in the refrigerator to keep cold.
When you need to use it, take out a ball and add warm water to mix it and stir it, you can easily get the required paste of different concentrations.
In addition, a cloth wall must be stretched out. This is used to dry the heart of the painting in the shade. It must meet the length requirements of the scroll, so it must be made fresh.
After all these preliminary works are completed, the project enters the formal stage.
There will be various problems that stop the project at any time. As the backing paper box is removed, the heart of the painting and the damask border lose their support, and the fragments begin to shift. These are all You need to quickly add new life papers, brush them with paste water to stick them, and then move them to a new workbench for processing.
The first phase of the work took more than thirty hours. After the work was completed, the unmounting phase was considered completed, and then the restoration phase entered.
Cover the silk brocade left on the original workbench with new life silk, spray water to keep it moist, and the fourth aunt can finally rest for a while, while Zhou Zhi and the fourth cousin need to continue working quickly to complete the painting. Cut the text content at the center of the painting, postscript, header, tail, etc., cover it with paper, and protect it from water immersion.
After doing all this, a thin layer of clear water accumulated on the surface of the workbench. The painting under the clear water was divided into eight pieces. Judging from the cracks in the splicing, each character was actually originally A single painting.
In addition, there is a narrow inscription, which is where Li Zhaoqing left his words. There is also a separate silk strip there.
There are three paper postscripts at the back, one of which is written by Cai Xiang, one by Chen Shidao, and one by Xu Qin.
Cai Xiang was a famous calligrapher and painter in the Song Dynasty. He was the same generation as Su Dongpo. Chen Shidao was one of the six sons of the Su family. However, he had bad luck in the imperial examination and spent most of his life as a disciple of conservative bosses.
The two articles echoed each other. Cai Xiang's article explained the process of obtaining this painting at the Daxiangguo Temple, and his tone was full of pride.
Chen Shidao's postscript is twenty years later than Cai Xiang's, which shows that this painting was highly valued in the Cai Mansion. After being collected for twenty years, Chen Shidao was able to appreciate it again.
Xu Qin's nickname was Ye Gong, and his year of activity greatly overlapped with Gao Shiqi's. He was a person from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty. He is a well-known researcher on the history of painting and the author of an ancient book called "Ming Dynasty Painting Record" which is very unfamiliar to outsiders.
"Famous Paintings" is divided into eight volumes. According to the style of painting history since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it is divided into categories and then eras. It biographies more than 870 painters of the Ming Dynasty one by one, and also provides a general introduction to each painting. The origin and development of each sect.
However, his views have always been relatively moderate. In the postscript of this painting, he also expressed the shortcomings of Ming people who liked to imitate antiques and fake them.
This is actually a subtle indication that he is not optimistic about this work and thinks it is a copy by a master from the Ming Dynasty.
However, this is also because Xu Qin has never seen the masonry portraits of the four major tombs of the Southern Qi Dynasty. The current evidence can prove that his inference was actually wrong.
After protecting the scrolls and Hengwen texts that needed to be repaired in the next step, Zhou Zhi and his fourth cousin couldn't bear it any longer. They quickly took a break to recharge their batteries for the next stage of the most labor-intensive restoration work.
But the most stressful work period was over, and I could sleep very relaxedly. When Zhou Zhi woke up, he found that he had slept for twelve hours. After eating something randomly, Zhou Zhi came to the restoration room and found that her fourth aunt was alone.
However, the postscripts written by Cai Xiang, Chen Shidao, and Xu Qin on the restoration stage have been turned over and cleaned to remove dust and stains. Now they can be clearly read. Clear yourself up.
"Su Huang Mi Cai, many people say that this ranking is the other way around. At least in the Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Xiang was known as the best in the world in writing and there were many notes to record it." The fourth aunt's finger repair Said: "This postscript alone is worth a lot of money."
"Chen Shidao is no stranger to everyone. He is the one who left the least records among the six sons of the Su family. It seems that he still has something." Although Cai Xiang's handwriting is not original and thoughtful, his works are indispensable in various calligraphy prints. , he has seen too much about writing, but now he is more concerned about Chen Shidao's articles and calligraphy that he has never seen before.
"The calligraphy of the Song Dynasty people, like the reforms carried out by Wang Anshi, also had the intention of 'reforming'." The fourth aunt smiled and said: "Many new calligraphy styles were also created. But there is more than enough freedom. "
In fact, the definition of "ugly calligraphy" in the calligraphy circle does not mean that the characters are really ugly, but that the writers have broken away from tradition and overturned the Chinese character knotting and composition that people have been accustomed to for thousands of years. The stroke writing method means that there is more than enough innovation but not enough tradition.
There is no strict distinction between "innovation" and "doodles". If the writer himself cannot form a structural and logical system in the text, it cannot be called innovation, but can only be called innovation. Scribbling and scribbling.
So this is why many people cannot accept the calligraphy of Jin Nong and Zheng Banqiao, but the calligraphy circle still praises them as calligraphy innovations, because their logical system of word construction is clear and obvious. exists.
"Chen Shidao's character is similar to his character. He is more conservative than reformed." Zhou Zhi nodded: "In his dynasty, everyone would say that he lacked aura and breakthroughs, and was not a good calligrapher. But in the Ming Dynasty, During the Qing Dynasty, Zhuoran could have started a family.”
“Yes, I was born in the wrong era,” the fourth aunt said, “But it can also be said that I have my own perseverance. Seek kindness and be kind."
"Fourth cousin is taking a break again."
"Well, this life is not short, so I need to be strict with my work and rest. Come here, I have to take a rest."
Zhou Zhi looked at her fourth aunt's workbench. The brocades had also been divided into strips, and many of them had been turned over and trimmed. Those were actually ready to be put on. Wall up.
"Then I'll hurry up and do the decontamination first," Zhou Zhi said.
The most important task of decontaminating calligraphy and painting is to pour hot water on the center of the painting, and then roll it with a towel roll, so that the dirt will be squeezed out by the towel roll together with the hot water. Repeat this to achieve the goal Cleaning effect.
Of course, for some redox chemical stains caused by acids and bases, this simple method is not applicable. Potions are needed. Sometimes red potions are used first, then blue potions, and reduction is used first. Or use oxidation to remove stains, and then adjust the pH of the painting back.
Fortunately, alum was not used in silk paintings in the Song Dynasty, so the silk paintings can be preserved far better than the silk paintings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Although the stains and aging of the paintings are quite dark in some places, But Zhou Zhi is still very confident in the repair.
Sure enough, after carefully rolling the towel roll back and forth a few times, the blackness on Wang Rong's portrait was reduced a lot, and the areas where the ink was left on the scroll were fully revealed. The gossamer line drawing and rendering techniques that the Six Dynasties painters were good at The concave and convex method can finally be clearly seen on the scroll.
"Although it is a copy, the spirit has still been passed down." The fourth aunt had stopped working since Zhou Zhi and came to watch, and now she finally commented: "Of course Lu Tanwei is a high-ranking person, but Li Zhaoqing is the leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty. The palace painters of the two dynasties of the Northern Song Dynasty were equally amazing!”