Cong Chrysanthemum Page

[Cong Ju Tu Page]

Cong Ju Tu Page, Southern Song Dynasty, Wan Fan Page, silk version, color setting, vertical 24 cm, horizontal 25.1 cm
This picture has no style. The seal for the seal collection is “□ Tengxian Hall Calligraphy and Painting”, “Cloud Valley”, “□ Huabao You”, and there is another residual seal
The picture shows a cluster of autumn chrysanthemums, red and white, with luxuriant branches and leaves, full of vitality, and no sense of killing autumn. The petals are traced with a center fine pen, and then haloed with vermilion or white powder; Point out the stamens with a fine pen; The dense leaves are either stained with ochre, a little juicy green, or a little gambog to show different colors of old and young. The flowers are blooming, blooming and dying, and the leaves are rolled up and the light and dark are facing back, which are well described. The style of painting is exquisite, the composition is full, complex but not disordered, dense but not suffocating, and the color is gorgeous but not vulgar. It is a masterpiece of painting from life in the Southern Song Dynasty.