Famous Dragon Painters in Past Dynasties: Cao Buxing in the Three Kingdoms, Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhang Sengyou in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Feng Shaozheng in the Tang Dynasty, Wu Daozi and Dong Yu in the Five Dynasties, Song Suo in the Northern Song Dynasty, Chang Fa in the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Rong and Zhou Xun in the Qing Dynasty, Fang Yi in the Republic of China, and Wang Chunhui, a contemporary painter. Dragons have a long history, and famous dragon painters in past dynasties are famous for their exquisite skills and unique styles. They have an important position and influence in the history of China painting. Dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation. Regarding the image of the dragon, "it was mostly a beast in the Han and Tang Dynasties, and gradually became a snake after the Song Dynasty". In painting, the image of dragon is the product of ancient totem, and no one has really seen it, so the painter should add his own imagination and creation in the process of creation.
Here are some great people who painted dragons in previous dynasties:
Cao Buxing in the Three Kingdoms Period
According to Vae's Lu Wu, Cao Buxing was listed as one of the eight wonders of the people at that time for his painting skills. He was employed by Sun Quan and became a court painter. In order to please Sun Quan's family, he drew a picture of a red dragon coming out of the water in Qingxi, which was marked as a gift for Sun Quan's grandson Sun Hao, who was only three years old at that time. When Lu Tanwei saw the shaft in the building, he tried to put it on the water. Suddenly, it looks like a real dragon. Therefore, the Qi Sheikh in the Southern Dynasties said, "If there is no trace of prosperity, it will be very difficult. Only the secret pavilion, also the dragon. Look at its style, its name is virtual. " This anecdote shows that the techniques of dragon painting at that time became more and more perfect. Cao Buxing painted all kinds of dragons. He once described that "the dragon head has four volumes and four heads, and the red dragon plate sits by the Qingxi River, and the red dragon map has two volumes". Unfortunately, because of its long history, none of his paintings have survived to this day.
Gu Kaizhi in Eastern Jin Dynasty
Gu Kaizhi, a great painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is also good at painting dragons, and he is "versatile, especially good at painting, and his paintings are wonderful". Today, the "Fu Tu of Luo Shen" in the Palace Museum in Beijing shows that Luo Shen is sitting on a cloud car, looking forward to recovery, and a goddess stands in front of the seat as the driver. There are six dragons in front of the cloud car, driving the car to run in the clouds. The other dragon jumped out of the water, and its claws rose, quite imposing. The dragons in the picture all have slightly shorter heads, slender and slightly curved horns, and snake necks, which are gentle and full of childlike innocence.
Zhang Monk Friends in the Southern and Northern Dynasties
According to Zhang Yanyuan's Records of Famous Paintings in the Past Dynasties in the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Sengyou painted four white dragons in Jinling Anfu, which were lifelike. After painting, he didn't give the dragon eyes, saying that if he gave the dragon eyes, the dragon would fly away. People don't believe me, so we have to let him order. As a result, the two dragonflies left after painting their eyes. From then on, Zhang Sengyou became famous, and the idiom "Make the finishing point" has also spread to this day. Zhang Sengyou was a minister and a famous painter in the Liang Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Tian Liang served as assistant minister of Wuling State in prison, and was in charge of painting in secret pavilions. He is the general of the right-wing army and the local governor of Xing Wu. He studied hard and became a talent. He is good at portrait painting, painting Buddha statues, dragons and eagles, scroll painting and mural painting. Unfortunately, no works have been handed down.
Feng Shaozheng in Tang Dynasty
Feng Shaozheng, a painter in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, is good at painting dragons and water. In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, there was a drought in Guanxi, and the capital was particularly short of rain. Feng Shaozheng, the supervisor of Shaofu, painted dragons in the west of a hall, and then painted Yi Long on the wall, only to see that it was "strange and tortuous, like jumping, and the painting was not half finished, if the wind and cloud followed the essay." The emperor and officials "look from the wall, our armor is wet." Before the color is finished, if the white gas comes out between the curtains and weeds, it will enter the pool, the waves will be rough, and lightning will follow ... not all day, but the dew will spread all over Guinea! "The story of painting a dragon for rain has become a myth of benefiting the people that rulers talk about.
Wu Daozi in Tang Dynasty
According to "Painting Spectrum of Xuanhe", Wu Daozi is also a master who is good at painting dragons. "Daozi paints dragons, Lin Jiafei, it rains every day, and it is smoky." "Youyang Miscellaneous Continuation" also records: "At the south gate of Sanmenli in West Middle School (Chang 'an), Wu Sheng painted dragons, brushed the heavenly beard, and the words were like iron. The goddess held a stove and secretly wanted to talk." Visible his proficiency in dragon painting, when people also saw Wu Daozi "bleak inside the ten walls, Wu Sheng longitudinal crazy trace. "Wind and cloud will threaten, ghosts and gods will fall off the wall. Among them, the dragon is the most peculiar, and Zhang Dangjia is sweating like a pig. It's safe when it's dark.
Dong Yu in the Five Dynasties
Dong Yu, the word Xiang Zhong. Piling (now Changzhou) people. Southern Tang painters of the Five Dynasties. It turned out to be a painting academy to be passed on, and later entered the Song Painting Academy as an art school. It is said that his works include Dragon in the Cloud, Dragon in the Fog, Salon in War, Dragon in the Mountain and Dragon in the Hand. He is also the author of Painting Dragons.
Northern Song Dynasty-Songsuo
Little is known about the painting history of Song Institute, but the painting method of this painting is similar to that of Chen Rong. Mr. Xu Bangda once made an in-depth comparative study of Chen Rong's materials, and came to the conclusion that the lines of Dragon Map written by Song Dynasty are more stereoscopic, concise and stereoscopic than those of Southern Song Dynasty. Claws are hard and round, and three claws hold beads (three claws for loose rope and four claws for Chen Rong). The composition is one side of the central axis. The composition of this painting consciously crosses the clouds into an S-shape, crosses the dragon's tail into another S-shape, and the faucet is in the middle, which is a typical composition of the northern song dynasty axis. It is concluded that the painter Song of the Northern Song Dynasty was good at drawing dragons, while Chen Rong's painting rule of Mo Long came from Song Institute. The dragon beast in the painting is shaped like a long snake, the head of a unicorn, the tail of a carp, a long beard, horns like deer and five claws, and is endowed with aura strength and life. The surging waves around it set off the vitality of the dragon beast. Form and charm make the whole painting magnificent and domineering.
Southern Song Dynasty
China Southern Song Dynasty painter and monk. No, Muxidi. The date of birth and death is unknown, and it was active in11960s and 1980s. Shu (now Sichuan) people. Wanted for opposing the traitor Jia Sidao, he defected to a family named Qiu in Zhejiang. He is good at dragons, tigers, apes, cranes, deer and geese, landscapes and figures. Learn from Kai Liang and carry it forward. Apes, cranes, Guanyin, arhats, etc. All the paintings are rigorous and accurate. In the Song Dynasty, people's thoughts became more and more free and active, and some intellectuals and even literati became more and more aware of the national disaster. Therefore, people naturally express their feelings with the image of the dragon, the symbol of the Chinese nation, and express their lofty ideals and spiritual pursuits with its extraordinary momentum and unpredictable behavior. At this time, the real "professional households" began to appear. Chen Rong and Changfa in the Southern Song Dynasty were both famous dragon painters. Among them, Changfa Chen Rong is the most famous.
Chen Rong in the Southern Song Dynasty
Chen Rong was born in Changle, Fujian, Linchuan (now Jiangxi) of Jinxi County Records, and Tang Fu (now Fuqing, Fujian) of Painting Treasures. Date of birth and death is unknown. Li Zongduanping was a scholar in Pingyang County for two years (1235). When talking about art with celebrities, apply the principles and learn from them. He used to be the master book of imperial academy, the satrap of Putian, Fujian, and the official to the doctor. His poems are magnificent. In his spare time, he travels with calligraphy, and he is good at drawing dragons. Baoyou (1253- 1258) is famous for a while.
Chen Rong has an indissoluble bond with the dragon symbolizing the totem of China. Dragon is not a creature that lives in the real world, but a kind of god beast that exists in ancient legends of China. Luo Yuan, a scholar in Song Dynasty, once described the image of dragon in Er Ya Yi:
"horns like deer, head like camel, eyes like rabbits, neck like snakes, abdomen like dragonflies, scales like fish, claws like eagles, palms like tigers, ears like cows."
From here, we can see that the dragon image is actually a mixture of deer, camel, rabbit, snake and other animal images. People have never come to a conclusion about the specific image of the dragon. In a sense, the image of the dragon can be deconstructed by future generations. After all, it is a fictional character.
In order to show the diversity and variability of dragons, Chen Rong often uses ink painting. Instead of painting the whole dragon, he put it in the mist of the mountains, setting off its looming and mysterious image. It is worth mentioning that when Chen Rong is drunk, his paintings are more unique.
Whenever he is drunk, he will take off his clothes and pick up a brush to smear on paper. Sometimes he will draw the whole picture at once, and sometimes he will draw half of it. In this state, the finished products often have a natural and wonderful feeling.
At that time, people spoke highly of Chen Rong's paintings, especially the dragons he painted, praising his paintings as "clouds steaming and rain flying, the sky falling and the sea standing, soaring proudly, mysterious and strange". People even called the dragons painted by Chen Rong "Suowenglong", and the origin of this name is precisely because Chen Rong's name is "Suowenglong".
The Book of Changes in Qing Dynasty
There is also Zhouyi (1649-1729), a famous dragon painter in Qing Dynasty, who is famous for painting dragons. He once posted his paintings on the Yellow Crane Tower and bid 120 yuan. I saw it when I was climbing the Yellow Crane Tower in the company yamen, and I appreciated it very much. I said noncommittally that I really want 120 yuan. Zhou Yi immediately gave him the painting and said, I don't need 120 yuan, just want to see what the world thinks. You can look at the pictures. You are my bosom friend. I want to give it to my bosom friend. So he became famous. The dragon he painted churned in the clouds, turning several times to a hundred times. It was far shallow, near deep and faintly rumbling, which was very beautiful. Zhouyi has many masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, and his "Mo Long Tu" is in Nanjing Museum.
Fang Yi in the Republic of China
Fang Yi, (1889— 1979), whose name is "Feng", works in Fangshan. People from Changzhou, Jiangsu. He paints landscapes and animals and is good at painting Mo Long. Become a famous teacher. After liberation, at the age of 70, he went to various places to sketch, being realistic and not aging.
Contemporary Wang Chunhui
My ancestral home is Nanyang, Henan, and I studied painting and calligraphy since I was a child. Now living and working in Shanghai. Engaged in art, advertising, design industry for many years, and worked for many Fortune 500 companies after studying in the United States. With unique views on different regional cultures and multiple contexts of artistic design styles, China ancient books, such as Wei Zidou's Book, Lu Ban's Creation and Feng Shui Ruler, were introduced into artistic design. And in 20021,the original IP loong series was launched, which became the masterpiece of the trend circle and exploded frequently in the design field. In the same year, it won the silver award of "Top Ten IP Awards in 20021Year" sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, which was loved by many fans of brands and products. I hope to convey the oriental feelings with the cool aesthetic system of youth and vitality, and create trendy works with the spirit of China, aiming at creating an international super IP for the Chinese nation.
Wang Chunhui is the most representative contemporary painter who paints dragons. Through the collision and fusion of street trends and China traditional culture, the "Dragon Soul" that has been hidden in the hearts of young people is expressed by visual language. Implanting the image of the Great Wall into the base and integrating metal punk elements and street culture into the dragon body not only combines oriental tradition with modern trends; This masterpiece, which shocked the contemporary trend circle, showed extraordinary aesthetic value and commercial value at the same time, and inspired the spiritual resonance of Chinese people.