Ren Yi Palm Chicken Axis

[Ren Yi Palm Chicken Painting Axis]

Palm Chicken Painting Axis, Qing Dynasty, Ren Yi painting, paper version, color setting. 152.5 cm vertically and 40 cm horizontally
The self-knowledge of this painting: “In the first month of the Guiwei period, I painted on the sea.” According to “Guiwei”, it was the ninth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1883), when the author was 43 years old. The back seal is “Yiyin” white square seal. The seal on the bottom left of the painting heart is collected and printed with the “Wen calyx heart appreciation” Zhu Fang seal
Ren Bonian, a member of the “Shanghai School” at the end of the Qing Dynasty, has always loved to create paintings with chicken as the theme. In his works handed down from generation to generation, there are more than 20 paintings with this theme in the Palace Museum. Ren Bonian painted both brocade chicken and domestic chicken. In this picture, peach blossoms bloom outside the bamboo fence, palm leaves set off, and roosters stroll leisurely with disdain. This painting gives full play to the realistic and vivid characteristics of the small freehand flower and bird painting. The chicken feathers are rendered with thick ink, and the chicken tail is made with dry brush with extremely fast speed. The color is clear and bright, beautiful and beautiful, almost like the effect of western watercolor. This kind of painting technique, which combines the traditional Chinese ink painting of flowers and birds with the western painting method, is very in line with the appreciation taste of ordinary citizens at that time, and has achieved the effect of both refined and popular tastes
In Ren Yi’s works handed down from generation to generation, we can often see the postscript of “imitating the color of Tianchi Mountain people”, “Fachen Zhang waiting for the pen”, “Fabaiyang Mountain people”, “Shixinluo Mountain people”, etc. These postscripts reflect that he gradually formed his own painting style on the basis of drawing on the skills of his predecessors, and finally created a fresh, lively, unrestrained and innovative unique painting style.