Dong Qichang’s picture scroll of Guanshan after snow

[Dong Qichang’s Painting after Snow in Guanshan Mountain]

The Painting after Snow in Guanshan Mountain, Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang’s painting, paper edition, ink pen, 13 cm vertically and 143 cm horizontally
The self-knowledge of this picture: “The picture of Guan Tong after the snow in Guanshan Mountain was recorded in the Yu family, but I didn’t try to show it. Today’s desk occasionally has this small side view, and the scenes in the picture are changed into small volumes, which will never be vulgar, so it is made. The fifth day of the second lunar month of the second lunar month of the second lunar month. Xuanzai.” The seal “Dong □” is printed, and the seal is illegible
The seal of the seal is “Yizhou Treasure”, “Qianlong Treasure”, “Jiaqing Treasure”, “Chonghua Palace Treasure”, “Yizhou Appreciation”, etc
“Yihai” is the eighth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1635), when Dong Qichang was 81 years old
According to the author’s own knowledge, this is an ancient painting after the painting of “After Snow in Guanshan” by Guan Tong, a famous landscape painter of the Five Dynasties. In fact, this temporary painting is not a snow scene, but a painting made by Guan Tong. This picture is composed of a combination of plain and far-flung in a small volume of endless mountains and forests. The scenery is congested, but the ink is fresh and moist, the pen is vigorous and clumsy, and the image is clear, achieving the artistic effect of dense but not congested. The works are dark and profound, rich and sparse, and have both gorgeous and plain purports. This is the reason why Dong Qichang wanted to touch Tong Tong’s painting, so he drew the painting idea, which is also the concrete expression of the plain and naive he pursued in his life. Therefore, he boasted that this good painting is “never vulgar”
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