Wang Shimin’s landscape map axis

[Wang Shimin’s landscape map axis]

The landscape map axis, the 12th year of Shunzhi’s reign in the Qing Dynasty (1655), Wang Shimin’s painting, paper, ink, 117.5 cm vertically and 48 cm horizontally

In the early Qing Dynasty, led by Wang Shimin, and represented by Wang Hui, Wang Jian, and Wang Yuanqi, the “four kings” painting school supported by the royal family was formed. Their landscape painting style affected the whole generation in the early Qing Dynasty. The “Four Kings” advocated “imitating the ancients” in art, mainly taking the five generations of Dong, Ju and the “Yuan Four”, especially Huang Gongwang as its spiritual leader. Wang Shimin and his grandson Wang Yuanqi are more satisfied with Huang Zijiu’s “foot sweat”. In fact, the “imitation” of the “four kings” is a strategy and method of borrowing from the past to open up the present, just as the bourgeois literary movement with “humanism” as the core, which arose in the name of “reviving ancient Rome and ancient Greek art” in the Western Renaissance
In the picture, there are hills and valleys, and the houses are scattered. The layout of the picture is rich and dense, and the painting of mountains and stones is based on Huang Gongwang. After the patchwork, they are folded with horizontal dots, or hooks or dots, each with its own style. The strokes are round and the thick ink points moss. The style is simple and elegant, with a sense of atmosphere and honesty. It is a rare masterpiece
This page is signed with the following words: “Brother Weng’s 60th birthday is taken in the second quarter of the month, and it is written as Shou. Brother Wang Shimin.” The seal is “Xitian” Zhu Wen Gou Seal and “Wang Shimin Seal” Bai Wen Seal. “Yi Wei” was the 12th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1655), when Wang Shimin was 64 years old. “Brother” should be the author’s modest words
There are “Sun’s Hongyizhai Seal” and other figures in the collection