Li Fangying Ink Plum Map Axis

[Li Fangying’s Ink Plum Painting Axis]

The Ink Plum Painting Axis, Qing Dynasty, Li Fangying’s painting, paper book, ink pen, vertical 125.6 cm, horizontal 42.9 cm
Title: “On the tenth day of the reign of Qianlong, the kitchen smoke broke the rice, and Gu Mei’s eyebrows were relieved with a few strokes. Ice flowers and snow Rui were home cooked, and the spring breeze was always full of hunger. In October of the ninth year of Qianlong’s reign, they were written in the borrowed garden of Jinling. Li Fangying.” Seal the “dream in the dream”, “rice for living”, “fake”, “plum blossom means”, “small window wind and rain”, etc. The seal is “Chu Zhen”. The 19th year of Qianlong was 1754. After his removal from office, Li Fangying made a living selling paintings and lived in poverty. The poems in his paintings reflected his optimistic spirit of painting in spite of hunger
The ancients painted plum trees with thousands of flowers and thousands of stamens, or with sparse dead branches. Most of the branches of plum trees were twisted and swayed in various shapes. Li Fangying loved to draw plum blossoms, and once wrote a poem about plum blossoms, saying, “It is not necessarily appropriate to write plum blossoms. It is no wonder that the ink falls late before the flowers. There are only two or three branches of plum blossoms with ten thousand slanting eyes.” Among the ten thousand plum blossoms with ten thousand slanting eyes, the painter captured the most pleasing two or three branches. After artistic conception, he created a more perfect artistic image than the natural plum blossoms, which is more impressive than a few. Zheng Banqiao praised this
The plum blossom with folded branches in the picture has strong personality characteristics. The plum blossom is “heroic”, and the plum blossom is mellow and unrestrained, with subtle fragrance and shadow. It has a kind of aloof and cool demeanor. Li Fangying’s friend Yuan Mei commented on his Mei and said, “Proud and depressed as the root of the plum tree, and the gifted as the flower of the plum tree”, which pointed out the reason why he formed this style. Li Fang is obsessed with plum, so he has the seal of “lifelong confidant”. He uses plum painting to describe himself as simple, stubborn, and full of integrity. “The wind of heaven and earth is drawn by a lone stem, and the heart will not die under the ice.” Yuan Mei’s words can be described as confidant.