Lu Huixiong’s chicken picture axis

[Lu Hui’s Chicken Painting Axis]

The Chicken Painting Axis, Qing Dynasty, Lu Hui’s painting, silk version, color setting. 28.2 cm vertically and 45.1 cm horizontally
This self-knowledge: “I wrote this when I was living in Jingnan Residence, and then came to the middle of Hunan Province, where I was surrounded by ancient places of interest. However, most of the mountains and rivers, but the flowers and birds could not be so rich. Ding You is remembered in October.” According to “Ding You”, the author was 46 years old in the 23rd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1897). Seal the seal of Zhu Fang, who is “addicted to this”
There are several white lilies and purple chrysanthemums painted in the picture. On the lake stone covered by the flowers, a rooster is looking for food on its side. The flower stones and roosters are mainly painted with “boneless method”, which renders them beautiful and elegant. The flexible and alert posture of the rooster in the picture shows its robust and alert, real and vivid. Lu Hui was a master of landscape painting during the Republic of China. His works are mostly based on the imitation of ancient times. Although he sometimes creates flowers and birds, there are few such vivid pictures. According to this self-knowledge, this picture is taken as a picture of Lu Hui and Wu Dacheng. After they met, Lu Hui had a look at the paintings and calligraphies collected by Wu, from the Tang and Song dynasties to the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Lu Hui should have his own set of theories about the brushwork of predecessors, especially about flowers and birds. From the perspective of this work, Lu Hui combines the realism of the real body of the object and the exquisite and vivid freehand brushwork to express the unity of the shape and spirit of the object. The picture is full and vivid, and has its own uniqueness.