Picture axis of Hongli Guanhe playing zither

[Axis of Hongli Viewing Lotus and Playing zither]

Axis of Hongli Viewing Lotus and Playing zither, Qing Dynasty, silk version, colored, 299.5 cm vertically and 156.5 cm horizontally
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With the trend of “Western learning spreading to the east” in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, some European painters began to worship in the court of the Qing Dynasty. On the one hand, they accept the traditional Chinese painting method and use Chinese ink and paint and paper and silk to paint. On the other hand, they still adhere to the perspective principle of western painting techniques and deliberately express the volume, texture, light and shade, projection and even reflection of objects in their works. Although this painting is not signed with the name of the author, it is actually painted by the Italian painter Lang Shining, and the Chinese painter complements the landscape background. In the painting, Emperor Qianlong, dressed in Han costume, plays the piano near the lake, and the mountains and waters in the distance are a metaphor of his mind
The author not only successfully displays the stereoscopic and transparent sense of the waterside pavilion through superb skills and accurate perspective painting, but also clearly explains the complex structure of the building as a whole and the details of each component. The exquisite brushwork and colorful colors depict the texture and texture of the log columns and the bluestone tiles on the roof in a subtle and vivid way. From this picture, we can see that Lang Shining used the focus perspective technique to move the house he saw to the painting according to certain rules, and successfully displayed the multi-dimensional space on the two-dimensional plane painting, which is completely different from the traditional Chinese boundary painting.