Axis of Wang Ge’s Snow-Seeking Plum

[Wang Ge’s Painting Axis of Searching for Plum in the Snow]

The Painting Axis of Searching for Plum in the Snow, Ming Dynasty, Wang Ge’s painting, silk version, color setting, 106.7 cm vertically and 61.8 cm horizontally
Payment: “Written by Chen Wanger”. Seal the “Record of the Imperial Palace Painting” Zhu Wenyin. On the other side of the picture, there are “Hongzhi”, “Treasure of Guangyun”, “Chen Luping’s Seal”, “Donglin Qingyin”, etc
Snow walking and plum hunting is an elegant thing for literati and doctors of all dynasties, and also a common theme for painters. This picture shows a master and three servants looking for plum in the deep mountains on a snowy day. Wang Ge was called “the horse is far away today” by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the painting style of this picture proved this statement. In the painting, the rock edges and corners are hard, the trunk of the tree is curly and vigorous, and the mountain and slope rocks are mostly cracked with a big axe. The composition is also close to Ma Yuan’s “horse corner” feature.