Zhou Fang's "Picture of a Lady Wearing Flowers" is painted with heavy colors on silk, with a length of 0.46m and a width of1.8m. The pen is simple and generous. The painting depicts several well-dressed aristocratic women enjoying flowers and gardens at the turn of spring and summer, showing people the leisurely life of these ladies enjoying cranes and butterflies in a quiet and empty garden.
Although they tease dogs, pick flowers, play with cranes and flutter butterflies, and the maids follow them with fans, they seem carefree, but through their appearance, we can find that their spiritual life is not without loneliness and emptiness.
In this volume, there are five ladies and a waitress holding a fan. There are two dogs and a crane in the figure, and a lake stone and a magnolia tree are painted on the left. Ladies' hairstyles are all with towering clouds and fluffy bobheads. There are different jewelry flowers on the forehead bun. There are peony, peony, lotus, hydrangea and other flowers in the bun, and one flower has different branches. There are golden flowers on the eyebrows. Dressed in a topless collar, with a pomegranate red or light floral dress.
This painting has no background of garden courtyard, only five young ladies and a waiter are painted. They have tall hair, heavy eyebrows and weak eyes, bare breasts, plump bodies and distinctive styles, which highlight the characteristics of the times of the image of the ladies in the middle Tang Dynasty. At first glance, several ladies are similar, but in fact they have their own characteristics, not only their clothes and posture, but also their eyebrows and expressions.
From the right, the first person is wearing a scarlet dress, covered with a purple tulle blouse and a scarlet shirt. Put a peony flower in your head, lean to the right, and tease the puppy with dust in your left hand.
The lady standing opposite is wearing a light-colored tulle shirt, and the scarlet dress is dotted with purple-green flowers with purple scorpions with elegant Yunfeng patterns. Her right hand gently lifted the collar of the veil, which seemed very provocative.
The third is a maid with a round fan. In contrast, her dress and hairstyle are not outstanding, but her expression is serene and deep, which is in sharp contrast with other vagrants. Next, a noble woman, wearing a lotus bun and a white plaid coat, was watching intently with a red flower in her right hand. The fifth lady seems to be coming from a distance. She was wearing a begonia flower, a scarlet cloak, a purple tulle shirt, and her hands tightly pulled the veil. The headdress and clothes are extremely gorgeous, surpassing everyone, and the expression seems to have a sense of arrogance.
The last lady, with peony flowers on her bun, wore a light purple tulle shirt, the wide band of her skirt was decorated with mandarin ducks, and the white kite was painted with colorful cloud cranes. She has just caught a butterfly in her right hand. In the plump bodybuilding, it also shows a graceful figure.
The painter also uses puppies, cranes, cuttlefish and butterflies to express the different hobbies and personalities of the characters. The ladies before and after the scroll all look back at their pets, and the activities of the characters in the whole scroll are gathered into a complete picture.
The lines of the characters in the whole picture are concise, round and powerful, and the colors are rich. Can accurately express various gestures with concise and powerful lines. The description of clothing lines and patterns is neat but very smooth.
As for the bun and sideburns of the characters, they are too thin, and the pen tips are easy to fly. Although the coloring is complex, the layers are distinct and the overlapping relationship between filaments is very clear. Gauze is light, soft and transparent, and the skin is smooth and moist, which is very realistic.