Purple Jade Map Axis of Wangduoxi Mountain

[Wangduo Mountain Purple Cui Map Axis]

Xishan Purple Cui Map Axis, Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Duo’s painting, paper-based ink pen, vertical 95 cm, horizontal 36.4 cm
This painting is painted by the painter for his third brother Wang Duo. It is written in a high and lofty way. The majestic mountains in the distance are magnificent, the waterfalls and mists in the middle view are all ethereal, the green trees and flowing springs in the vicinity are full of vitality, and there are two scholars sitting on the stone watching the spring and drinking tea. In fact, it expresses Wang Duo’s desire to live in peace with his brother and brother and to wander outside the world. Wang Duo’s landscape painting has a wide range of teachers, not a single one. Looking at his works, we can see that the painters, apart from the northern painting school of the five dynasties of patriarchal clan, Jing Hao, and Guan Tong, which are based on the magnificent momentum and realm, can also integrate into the southern painting school Dong Yuan, and greatly contrast the charm of mountains and rivers by using ink halo. Therefore, the brush and ink skills have changed a lot, which is refreshing. In his creation, Wang Duo was able to deliberately avoid the elegant and unrestrained style of the painting world, put his pen in a leisurely manner, put his priorities in and out freely, and set his own style in the art world at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty by virtue of his crude artistic features. This picture is the artist’s masterpiece in his later years
The title of this painting is “purple and green in the Western Hills, which makes people look beautiful. It is written with the third brother, Tuo Ri, who went into the mountains to plant medicine, tea, and wine stoves. It is exactly the same. He Chou (1649, the sixth year of Shunzhi’s reign), wrote quickly in March, Brother Duo’s pen”, and stamped with “Wang” and “Duo” in white, with a bead seal. Another seal is Qiao Chongxiu’s “Gu Weng” white seal
The Shangshitang wrote Wang Duo’s own landscape painting theory, and there is a postscript by Qiao Chongxiu on the left side