Shi Tao Shouts and the Picture Scroll

[Shi Tao Shouting and Pictorial Volume]

Shouting and Pictorial Volume, Qing Dynasty, Shi Tao painting, paper, ink, 40.2 cm in length. 518 cm horizontally
As the seven-character quatrain in this self-title: “I can make the pen simple and write bamboo like talking to a guest. Ten Zhangs of fish itemsThe seven-inch tube turns the wind and rain into a niche. ” There are six seals: “How can there be no such king in a day”, “Lao Tao”, “I am old in my eyes”, “idiot”, “old man in Qingxiang”, and “anointing blind people”. The official script at the beginning of the volume has four words: “Shouting and Ke”
In the back of the volume, the “Dongpo Inscription and the Records of the Bamboo in the Yangu Valley” records an anecdote about the exchange between Wen Tong, a famous bamboo painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Su Shi’s poems and paintings. When Wentong was out of Shouyang State, he once sent a poem to Su Shi, saying, “I plan to sweep a piece of silk from a stream of geese and take ten thousand feet of cold shoots.” Su Shi laughed, “The bamboo is ten thousand feet long, and we should use two hundred and fifty pieces of silk. Knowing that the public is tired of pen and inkstone, and would like to get this silk.” Wentong said, “My words are wrong, and there are ten thousand feet of bamboo in the world!” Su Shi replied, “There are also thousands of bamboo in the world, and the moon falls in the sky and the court shadow is long.”, It was presented with the painting “The Painting of Yan Bamboo in the Valley” and said: “This bamboo has a few feet of ears, but has the potential of ten thousand feet.” It was a good story in the art world. In the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), when Wen Tong died, Su Shi lost his voice in grief and wrote this “The Story of the Titles and the Bamboo in the Valley” to miss the feelings of the two people who were “close and generous”. Shi Tao wrote the four words “Shout and Can” at the beginning of the book. On the one hand, he expressed his artistic confidence of daring to “fight the ancients with blood”, and on the other hand, he expressed his infinite emotion of finding a bosom friend and recalling the ancients leisurely
This scroll of bamboo trees is written in ink and water. The old bamboo poles and new bamboos are either sparse or dense, with arbitrary vertical and horizontal directions. The painter uses the breadth of the scroll to create a kind of ups and downs of mobility and a sense of relaxed rhythm inadvertently, giving full play to the artistic efficiency of water and ink to express emotion. The rolling Zhongshan stone is swept out with a large side front, and the falling ink is the bamboo leaves. There is no duplicate brush, and the dry and wet are thick and thin. The brush and ink are scattered, and there is no way out of it. The picture is full of blood and emotion, which makes the audience feel like hearing the sound of wind and rain. He has practiced the artist’s artistic idea of “writing all things in the world with pen and ink, and swimming with pottery”
In the autumn of 1996, the Palace Museum bought this treasure back from Beijing Jiade Auction Company for a large amount of money.