Wen Zhengming’s orchid and bamboo scroll

[Wen Zhengming’s Blue and Bamboo Painting Volume]

The Blue and Bamboo Painting Volume, Ming, Wen Zhengming’s works, paper, ink, 26.8 cm in length and 730 cm in width
This painting is painted with carnation, brambles and streams on the slope, without the author’s signature. It is stamped with “Wu Yan Shi Yin”, “Zheng Zhong”, “Zheng Zhong Fu”, “Wei Geng Yin Wu Yi”. After receiving a paragraph from the paper, Zheng Ming wrote, “Zheng Ming wrote in the Jade Chime Hill House.”. Seal “Wen Zheng Ming Seal”, “Hengshan” and the introductory chapter “Stop Cloud”
The blue leaves and orchids in the picture are painted in light ink. The ink color is warm and moist, the writing is light and fluent, and the lines turn. Bamboo is made in thick ink, strong and unrestrained. The author is also quite ingenious in the description of the scenery. For example, the earth and stone at the corner of the slope are painted with dry brush, chapped, and then interspersed with thorns. The murmur of a stream at the end of the scroll shows the desolation and desolation of the environment, which further sets off the elegant and elegant character of orchid and bamboo, and does not conform to the vulgar, highlighting the personality spirit of orchid and bamboo given by traditional scholars. The author said in his title: This picture is intended to imitate the painting methods of various literati painting masters who were good at painting orchid and bamboo in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Looking at this picture, the author uses cursive script and “flying white” strokes to draw, which is the essence of Zhao Mengfu’s artistic theory and creative practice of “stone is like flying white wood, and bamboo is also like a circle”. In such a magnificent work, the author fully expresses the interest of pen and ink, and is a typical literati painting
The description of Gu Wenbin’s “Calligraphy and Painting in the Cloud Tower” in the Qing Dynasty.