The original "Luo Shen Fu Tu" is a colorful silk book. It is a long scroll composed of multiple storylines, similar to comics, and has been lost. At present, there are four books handed down from ancient times, which are collected in the Palace Museum (two books), the Liaoning Provincial Museum and the friel Art Museum. The two figures in the Palace Museum are basically similar, but the scenery is complex and simple.
The original "Luo Shen Fu Tu" is a colorful silk book. It is a long scroll composed of multiple storylines, similar to comics, and has been lost. At present, there are four books handed down from ancient times, which are collected in the Palace Museum (two books), the Liaoning Provincial Museum and the friel Art Museum. The two figures in the Palace Museum are basically similar, but the scenery is complex and simple. Among the existing ancient paintings in China, The Ode to Luoshen is considered to be the first painting adapted from a literary work.
Basic situation of Gu Kaizhi
Gu Kaizhi (348 ~ 409) was born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Wuxi, Jiangsu), Han nationality. An outstanding painter, painting theorist and poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because of his great achievements in literature and painting, people call him painting, literature and infatuation.
Gu Kaizhi is well-read and good at poetry and calligraphy, especially painting. Specializing in portraits, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes, etc. The world calls them the three musts: painting, writing and ignorance. Xie An is so deep that he thinks it has not existed since its birth. Gu Kaizhi, Cao Buxing, Lu Tanwei and Zhang Sengyou are also called "Four Masters in Six Dynasties". Gu Kaizhi's painting intention is vivid, and his thoughts of "moving the mind" and "expressing the spirit with form" laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China.
Gu Kaizhi has also made outstanding achievements in painting theory. There are three painting theories today: Wei Jinsheng's Painting Praise, On Painting and Painting Yuntai Mountain. He put forward some viewpoints, such as the theory of vivid expression, the theory of nourishing the spirit with form, and the theory of thinking wonderfully. He advocated that painting should express the mental state and personality characteristics of characters, attach importance to the experience and observation of objects, grasp the internal essence of objects through thinking wonderfully, and write the spirit with form on the basis of shape. Gu Kaizhi's painting and his theory laid the foundation for the development of traditional painting in China.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Gu Kaizhi.