Li Fangying Bamboo and Stone Map Axis

[Li Fangying’s Bamboo and Stone Painting Axis]

The Bamboo and Stone Painting Axis, Qing Dynasty, Li Fangying’s painting, paper, ink, 139.5 cm vertically and 54.5 cm horizontally
Self title: “I don’t know how to make a branch of bamboo in the home of meat. How can it be a branch of ink?” Heaven is sad about the world customs, and orders Qingfeng to entrust the painter. It was written in Wanghegang Deep Lane in Jinling in June of the 18th year of Qianlong’s reign. Li Fangying. “Seal the three sides of” outside the picture “,” bamboo fairy “, and” moths in the iron “. The 18th year of Qianlong is 1753
Although Li Fangying said in his poem that painting bamboo is to express the so-called fresh and refined taste of literati, in fact, on the contrary, the art of “Yangzhou Eight Monsters” has been quite different from the aesthetic taste of traditional literati painting. The four gentlemen of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum in their works are used to show their concern for the sufferings of the people and the real life. They are extremely accession to the WTO. Zheng Xie, a friend of Li Fangying and one of the “Eight Monsters”, is also good at painting bamboo, but they have different tastes in artistic style and have their own methods. The still bamboo in Zheng Xie’s painting is thin and thick, and it is tall and straight; Li Fangying likes to paint the black bamboo in the wind, saying to himself, “He laughs with courage, and still loves the wind with his brush”. The bamboo painted are mostly thick rods and long leaves, vigorous and unbridled, showing their spirit of fighting against the wind, and winning with momentum
The picture depicts the lower half of the black bamboo in the way of “interception” to show the tall and luxuriant momentum of the bamboo. Three-pole black bamboo breaks through the stone and is tough and straight. After being blown by the strong wind, the bamboo leaves are covered in various shapes. The painter “seizes the work of nature in a difficult place”, selects the typical image of bamboo leaves in the moment under the raging wind and rain, breaks the traditional method of painting bamboo, believes that “the method of painting bamboo must be painted, and the method of painting must be broken”, boldly seeks innovation, and uses a bald pen to sweep straight, and draws the bamboo leaves in an inclined direction, with the leaf tip in a flat square shape, slightly deformed, painted horizontally and vertically with a pen, and slightly unscrupulous, to show the strong momentum of the wind. The whole painting is sound, powerful and emotional, making people feel like they are in the scene. It is one of the representative works of Li Fangying’s bamboo painting.