[Chen Shizeng’s Turtle Dove Painting Axis]
The Turtle Dove Painting Axis, modern and contemporary, painted by Chen Shizeng, paper based, colored, 122.8 centimeters vertically and 32.5 centimeters horizontally
Self title: “In the September of the Geng Shen Autumn Period, Chen Hengke recorded it in the Huaitang Hall.” With the seal of “Shi Zeng”
“Gengshen” refers to the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920)
In the picture, two turtledoves stand on a huge stone, with bamboo branches and morning glory beside them
There is not much ink on the stone in this painting, and the strokes are cursorily made, simply showing the concave and convex texture of the stone surface; The flowers and leaves move flexibly with the pen, and the color and ink are compatible; “The bird bird is not my master. The shape of the two birds in the picture is simple and clumsy, and their strokes are more restrained.”
The “dove” of the turtledove in the painting is homophonic to “nine”, which on the one hand implies the time when the painting was painted in September, and on the other hand, Chinese people have always regarded “nine” as an auspicious number with a meaning of auspiciousness.