Huayan Self-portrait Axis

[Huayan Self-portrait Axis]

Self-portrait Axis, Qing Dynasty, Huayan painting, paper, color, 130.5 cm vertically and 50.7 cm horizontally
This self-question: “Silla Mountain is a small scenery. It’s a pity to think about it for forty years. You are very old and far behind the past. Talk about lonely pine trees and closed houses in the mountains. When you go into the deep valleys, you are fond of playing with springs and stones. Or you meet strange hills and valleys, and you can fly in pairs of broken teeth clogs. When you are flying in a row of smoke clouds, like wings and two armpits. It’s a pity to think about it. You are very old, far behind the past. You can talk about lonely pine trees and closed houses in the wormwood. You can see the small windows through the holes, but only a few of them are floating and white. The burning fans are burning, and the sky is burning hard. You are tired of lying on the bamboo basket bed, and sweat is wet on the pillow mat. Jed steps on the ice , emitting the tilting unit side. He sat holding a pen and inkstone and wrote my body seven feet. Ying-shaped cranes and cypresses are more steep than frost. Looking up at the absolute dust, the morning and evening are not forced. The grass is resplendent in the spring, and the moss is carved on the stone wall. The ancient vines are green, and the cold water is soaked in stiff blue. It is a small world, and there is no disaster in the blessed land. Yongzheng Ding Weichang Xia Xin Luoshan people sit and talk in the library and play with ink. ” Seal “Qiu Yue” and “Hua Yan”. The initial seal is “Xiaoyuan”, and the lower right seal is “Ligou”. “Yongzheng Dingwei” was in 1727, and Hua Yan was 46 years old
Hua Yan is a folk painter who lived in Hangzhou and met scholars from eastern Zhejiang, such as Li E and Wu Shilun. Most of these friends are scholars who do not admire honor and wealth and are content with poverty. Under their influence, Hua Yan devotes himself to poetry, calligraphy and painting, and has won the reputation of “three wonders of poetry, calligraphy and painting”. In order to make a living, he had experienced an official career, but witnessed all kinds of grievances in the officialdom, and finally gave up his official career. He traveled between Hangzhou and Yangzhou to sell paintings for a living, and met painters such as “Yangzhou Eight Monsters”. He died at the age of 75. Hua Yan was poor all his life. In his paintings, he used “brush to brush away the dust of the world” to express his beautiful feelings of nature wholeheartedly. He has traveled a lot and has a broad vision, which many painters can’t match. This picture is an impromptu work. It depicts Hua Yan’s delight in traveling to Linquan in the summer, wearing a summer shirt and half open. He leaned against the stone, crossed his knees, and sat beside the spring. His left hand twitched his beard, and his right hand stroked the stone. The mountains and rocks behind me are towering, and the dark blue ancient vines are winding around the mountains. The waterfalls in the distance fall down from the rocks and converge into a river. Reading his poems makes people feel the author’s love for nature and detachment from dirt. The figure portraits in the picture are realistic and have a sense of freehand brushwork. The shape is slightly exaggerated, which is similar to other figure paintings of the author, such as the Snow in Tianshan Mountain (collected by the Beijing Palace Museum). This picture is simple in line, casual and unrestrained, and the style is sparse and simple. It pursues a kind of literati interest, and has a unique style that is both refined and popular.