Recognizing a Famous Painting A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains
It is the only work of Wang Ximeng, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was only 18 years old when he painted it!
Artistic Characteristics :
1. A model of blue-green landscape
The mineral pigments stone green and stone green are the main colors, which are bright and everlasting, showing the rich effect of “green as the clothes, gold and blue as the decorations”.
Through layers of haloing, it creates a sense of hierarchy and changes in light and shadow in the landscape, such as the richness of lime green in the near distance and the fading of it in the far distance, which is in line with the “method of distance and nearness”.
2. The composition is grand and fine.
adopts the “scattered perspective method” to incorporate rolling hills, rivers and lakes, villages and bridges, boats and pedestrians into one long scroll, constituting an ideal landscape that can be visited and lived in. The volume is divided into six sections, each section is naturally connected to the mountains or waters, the rhythm of sparse and dense, such as the opening volume of the lofty mountains and the end of the Pingyuan River contrast.
3. The ultimate in detail
Characters: small as beans, but dynamic and vivid (such as fishermen casting nets, woodcutters carrying firewood).
Architecture: pavilions, water pavilions and bridges are depicted in brushstrokes, reflecting the architectural features of the Song Dynasty.
Nature: the rocks are mainly chapped with “axe-chopping”, and the trees are diverse (pine, willow, bamboo, etc.) The ripples on the surface of the water are sketched with fine brush strokes.
How is it? What do you think about this painting?
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