Ren Xiong Damai’s poetic picture page

[Ren Xiong and Da Mei’s Poetic Picture Page]

“Da Mei’s Poetic Picture” page, Qing Dynasty, Ren Xiong’s painting, silk version, color setting, 27.3 cm vertical and 32.8 cm horizontal
“Da Mei” refers to Yao Xie, a literary scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. Yao Xie (1805-1864), known as Meibo and Fuzhuang, is a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. Works of poetry and prose, especially good at filling words, good at writing ink plum and white figure, freehand flowers, are all strange. But at that time, people paid more attention to his poems, such as “Collection of Dameishan Pavilion”. Ren Xiong has a friendly relationship with Yao Damei. In the first year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1851), at the invitation of Yao Damei, Ren Xiong, who was 29 years old at that time, lived in the Yao family and drew 120 pages of poetic drawings for his poems, depicting various objects such as ladies, flowers and birds, towers, ghosts and gods. It was finished in February
This is the opening of Yao Damei’s Poetic Painting. It is Ren Xiong’s painting of a woman on a swing in the palace according to Yao Damei’s poetic idea of “The Secret Swing of Han Opera at Home”. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the swing became a game for women to play with, in order to practice lightness and vigor. When playing on the swing, people swing around in the air, and they are very interesting. The woman in the picture is dressed in Han costume, which is made in Song Dynasty. One of the women was dressed for men in a narrow sleeved robe with a collar, a belly and a red leather belt, implying that the women were also familiar with martial arts, and had the look of women
The painting technique of this picture is mainly based on the traditional shape outline and color application method. The lines are written with elegant pen, with bright colors and plane effect. The western method is adopted in some parts. The structure of the swing column is reasonable in proportion, and the position between the women is moderate, with perspective effect. The work reflects the painter’s exploration of the painting style of combining Chinese and Western painting.