Li Shusong Rattan Chart Axis

[Pine and Rattan Painting Axis of Li Xuan]

Pine and Rattan Painting Axis, Qing Dynasty, Li Xuan painting, paper edition, color setting, vertical 123 cm, horizontal 50.5 cm
Pine and cypress are very common subjects in ancient paintings, while those specially painted with pine trees and rattan flowers are very rare. The author has a strong preference for subjects such as pine rattan. There are many shafts of “Pine rattan painting” handed down from generation to generation. The composition is similar, but the picture inscription and details are slightly different. In the painting, old vines and pine trees are interlaced with branches and leaves. An old pine tree stretches diagonally into the picture. The bark is mottled, tall and majestic; Next to the pine tree, the vines climb up, curling and winding, tough and flexible. The painter wrote pine trees with thick brush and heavy ink, and rattan and rattan flowers with fast brush and light color. The ink color was mixed, and the dignified and thick pines and light and flexible rattan were set off against each other, and he was proud of himself. The composition of the picture is strange, dangerous but not beyond the law, the color is elegant, the color does not cover the ink, the pen is vigorous, the splashing ink is dripping, and the idea is fresh and open, with a very personal color of the pen and ink to describe the natural pines and rattan flowers in accordance with each other, full of vitality
Self title: “Sing a hundred thousand branches of the spring breeze, and find where to write a poem. After the empty court, the curtain is high, and a rattan flower is in the sunset. Fu Tang Li Xuan wrote in the ancient cypress mountain house”. Seal “official seal” (Zhu Wenfang seal), “Zongyang” (Bai Wenfang seal)