Wenchu Flower Atlas

[Cultural flower atlas]

Flower atlas, Ming Dynasty, cultural painting, paper edition, color setting, 27.8 cm vertical and 42.8 cm horizontal for each opening
The volume is divided into eight parts, depicting flowers such as begonia, carnation, wild chrysanthemum, gladiolus, etc., either broken branches, or lined with lake stones and pink butterflies. Pay attention to the differences in composition between each other, and the layout is quite ingenious. The branches, leaves and petals of the flowers in the picture are mostly dyed with myrrh, without outlining the outer outline. The veins of the leaves and petals are drawn with thin lines inside, and the delicate halo of color is emphasized, with bright and elegant color. At the same time, the painter also pays attention to selecting different performance techniques according to the different painted objects, such as the leaves and petals in the gladiolus painting are outlined with thin lines. The lake stone in the picture is also represented by boneless method. First, it is haloed with light ink, then it is reminded of its structure with wet thick ink, and finally it is sketched at the outer contour with dry ink. Although Wenchu tends to be refined and refined in the style of painting, it pays attention to the technique of color design, and its elegant style originates from Wen Zhengming. After the album, there is Liu Zhisi’s postscript
The author’s seal is printed with the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the “seal of the character”, the seal of the character “, the seal of the character”, the seal of the character “. At the bottom right of the page of “The Sword Orchid Painting”, there is the painter’s own title: “Xinwei’s ten and two months, the Zhao’s Wenchu painting in Tianshui.” Xinwei was 37 years old in the fourth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1631)
　　


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