Xu Beihong’s Bamboo Chicken Feeding Map Axis

[Xu Beihong’s Bamboo Chicken Foraging Map Axis]

The Bamboo Chicken Foraging Map Axis, in modern times, is painted by Xu Beihong, in paper, with colors, 54 centimeters vertically and 34.2 centimeters horizontally
Title: “Mr. Jian Qing’s Benevolence to Education. The Winter of the Twenty-four Years of Beihong” is stamped with the seal of “Xu Beihong” in white
The twenty fourth year refers to the twenty fourth year of the Republic of China (1935), when Xu Beihong was 40 years old
This painting bears the inscription of Shang Chengzuo on the poem pond: “Chickens have five virtues, and kindness is one of them. They have three young children, and they have a great love for each other. I am the Buddha, and Bodhi is the Buddha. Mahayana Zen is the master of painting, and the creation is completed. Shang Chengzuo inscribed the inscription in the December of the Guiwei period.” It bears the seal of Bai Wenfang of the Shang dynasty, and Zhu Wenfang of the □ Zhai dynasty. “Guiwei” refers to 1943, which is 8 years later than Xu Beihong’s creation of this picture
This picture is a rural sketch, where the chicks are searching for food under the guidance of the hens, with a simple maternal love and affection overflowing at the end of the pen. Xu Beihong has created many paintings with the theme of chickens, but paintings with the theme of hens and chickens are rare
Painters use different brushstrokes to depict hens and chicks: hens are depicted using line drawing, with ink lines of varying thickness outlining the plumpness and fluffiness of feathers; The chicks are dyed with ink halo method, and the moist ink naturally spreads on rice paper. The different shades of ink rhyme reveal the unformed feathers and immature posture of the chicks, demonstrating the artist’s skilled skills in Chinese painting. The vaguely colored background painted in light blue adds a relaxed atmosphere and romantic poetry with its hazy tone.