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During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty, accompanied by court painter Wu Daozi, was lucky enough to go to Luoyang, the eastern capital. Zhang Xu, who has a long history, and General Pei Min, who is good at sword dancing, met in Luoyang. At that time, Pei Min's home had a new bereavement, and Wu Daozi, a great painter, was asked to use a large sum of money to make murals at the Tiangong Temple in Luoyang (near Shangshan Square in the south of Tianjin Bridge) to turn over the dead. Wu Daozi returned all the gold and silk.
He said to Pei Min, "I've heard a lot about the general, and I want to see him dance the sword. If you look at its power, you can wave it. " General Pei readily agreed. Immediately put on mourning clothes and dance swords in the courtyard. He walked as fast as a fly, turning left and right, and suddenly a sword soared into the sky, more than ten feet high.
Then, the sword fell like lightning. In everyone's exclamation, General Pei gently took the scabbard, and the sword was safely sheathed. It's amazing. With the help of God, Wu Daozi soon made a mural. This painting is full of fairy tales, clothes are fluttering and the wind is blowing all over the walls. It's Wu Dai, a grass has come out of the water!
Zhang Xu, who was present, was also greatly infected. He couldn't help but brush off the dragon and snake on the wall of another temple, leaving Mo Bao as the "best weed in the world". The onlookers feasted their eyes, sighed twice and sighed three times, saying, "You can see three wonders in one day." It is said that this mural is Wu Daozi's "Life painting is still proud, there is no such thing". Mo Bao, a grass saint in Zhang Xu, should also be regarded as the best.
Brief introduction of Wu Daozi
Wu Daozi (about 680-759), also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, and his painting history was honored as a saint. Han nationality, from Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). He was born in about 680 AD (the first year of Yonglong) and died in about 758 AD (the first year of Gan Yuan). If you are lonely and poor, you will have a painting name when you are young.
He used to be the county commandant of Qiu Yan (now Ziyang) and resigned soon. After living in Luoyang, engaged in mural creation. During the Kaiyuan period, he was called to the DPRK for his good painting, and successively served as a doctor, an internal teacher and Wang You. I studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He, and experienced the skill of using a pen by watching sword dancing. He is good at Buddhism, ghosts, figures, landscapes, animals, plants, pavilions and so on. , especially good at Buddhism and figures, and good at mural creation.
Wu Daozi's influence on later generations.
Wu Daozi's Eighty-Seven Immortals Volume Wu Daozi has made such outstanding achievements in painting art because he can innovate.
He is good at absorbing the essence from complex object forms, and generalizes concave-convex surfaces and yin-yang surfaces into "lines" that cannot be simplified. He combined the internal movement of objects to form the rules of line organization, such as the height, side, depth, inclination, rolling, folding, floating and lifting posture of clothing lines, and described the character of objects completely based on the organization of lines.
The requirements of this line are strict, each line meets the requirements of vivid modeling, each line is full of rhythmic beauty, and it is a creative line that combines the achievements of the previous generation.
Wu Daozi's painting style has been imitated and used for reference by many painters since the Tang Dynasty and the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Li, a painter in Song Dynasty, developed his simple and elegant "line drawing" from Wu Daozi's "don't pretend to recite, just follow the ink", and line drawing has become a new style of Chinese painting.
Today, when his remains are completely lost, Wu Daozi, the painter, is still famous in the painting world, because he created a painting school-folk traditional painting school, which has dominated the history of folk painting for more than 1000 years. The murals we saw after the Tang Dynasty all had the influence of Wu Daozi. The murals of Yongle Palace in the Yuan Dynasty and Fagang Temple in the Ming Dynasty are all in the style of Wu Daozi, and there are also many Wu Pai-style works in Dunhuang murals.