Landscape Painting by Qing Dynasty Master Painter Wang Hui (1632-1717)
清代大畫家王翬 (1632-1717) 山水畫
Wang Hui (1632-1717),
zi Shigu, hao Quqiao, Gengyan Sanren, Qinghui Zhuren, Wumu Shanren, Jianmen Qiaoke, was a native of Changsu, Jiangsu. His talent in painting was much recognized by Wang Jian who later took him as a student. Then he followed Wang Shimin as well and got the valuable chance of studying and copying the ancient masterpieces of Chinese paintings in the two Wangs' collections. He was summoned to the capital in 1691 to paint the work Imperial Procession to the South for Emperor Kangxi, who wrote a piece of calligraphy with the four characters shanshui qinghui written on it, for appraising the artistic merit of Wang's landscapes. since then he became the most prominent painter. Contemporaries acclaimed him the "Sage of Painting" and the founder of Yushan School.
Wang was particularly proficient in copying ancient masterpieces, ranging from the works of the Tang masters to those of the Ming. Besides he succeeded in grasping the stylistic essence of both the Southern and Northern Schools of landscapes painting, that can be evidenced by his statement, "with the brushwork of Yuan masters, I painted the landscape after the Song model and enriched it with the apiritual resonance of the Tang masters, and through this I could achieve the Great Synthesis". Excelled in depicting landscapes, bamboo and rocks, Wang's style in his middle age was characterized by orderly compositions and meticulous brushwork, while that in his years was tinged with a sense of desolation. he was also noted for painting the landscape in the blue-and-green style and receiving this genre of painting into fashion. He was also known as one of the "Six Masters of the Early Qing Dynasty".
王翬(1632一1717）
字石谷,號臞樵、耕烟散人、清暉主人、烏目山人、劍門樵客,江蘇常熟人。王翬幼即好畫,得王鑑激賞,從之學畫:繼而拜入王時敏門下,因得以盡�怳G王家藏名蹟。一六九一年王翬奉召入京,為康熙皇帝監繪＜南巡圖＞,聖祖賜書'山水清暉"四字,畫名由此天下聞,時人尊之為畫聖,亦為清虞山派之祖。王翬極擅摹古,於唐宋元明畫家無所不窺,能集山水畫南北二宗精萃。他嘗謂:"以元人筆墨,運宋人丘壑,而澤以唐人氣韻,乃為大成"。他擅繪山水、竹石,中年畫風構圖嚴謹,筆觸細膩,晚年轉趨蒼茫,其青綠山水亦有獨特之處。玉翬亦為清初正統畫派六大家之一。