Huang Quan

Huang Quan

Huang Quan (Qu á n) (? He was born in Chengdu (now Chengdu, Sichuan). He was a painter of Western Shu in Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The main creative activities are in the post Shu period. He is good at painting flowers, bamboos, feathers, Buddhism, figures and landscapes. He is a painter with all-round skills and spreads his paintings to later generations.

Life of the characters

At the age of 17, Huang Quan was good at painting and worshipped Wang Yan. After Meng Zhixiang ascended the throne, he was granted the imperial edict of the Imperial Academy of painting. When Meng Chang, the leader of the later Shu Dynasty, granted Jin Zi the title of deputy envoy of Rujing, and worked in the Western Shu Painting Academy for 40 years. In 965 ad, Huang Quan came to Bianjing, the capital of Northern Song Dynasty (now Kaifeng, Henan Province). He died at the age of 80. He studied painting with Diao Guangyin, a famous painter who came to Sichuan at the end of Tang Dynasty, and absorbed the advantages of Li Sheng, a landscape painter and Sun Wei, a figure landscape painter. As a result, "all the six methods are far better than the third division.". He is good at painting bamboo feathers, Buddhism, Taoism, figures and landscapes. He is a painter with comprehensive skills. Huang Xun inherited the flower and bird paintings of the Tang Dynasty. Most of his paintings are rare birds and famous flowers in the court. With extremely thin lines and soft colors, the lines and colors are mixed, and almost no ink is drawn. His mood is vivid and lifelike. According to the records of Yizhou's famous paintings, he painted six cranes with different postures on a wall of Shu palace, which was lifelike and even attracted real cranes to move in front of the wall. He also painted bamboo pheasants on the wall of Bafeng palace, which made the white hawk, who was hunting by the Emperor, mistakenly recognize the truth and peck at the wall. Because of the theme of his paintings and the characteristics of the palace decoration, the painting has a delicate and gorgeous atmosphere of wealth. Its extant true work is rare birds.

Most of the works depict exotic flowers and rare birds in the palace. They are full, rich and exquisite, with fine outline. There is almost no handwriting. They are made of coins, which is called "sketching". Later generations called him and Jiangnan XuXi "two schools of flower and bird painting in the Huang Xu Dynasty and the early Song Dynasty". The strokes of this painting are very meticulous. First, light ink is used and then color shading is used. The painting is divided into many levels, which is completely in line with Huang's art form recorded in the history of painting. Huang Xun's painting is not rash. Teng Changhu, the master of Huazhu, Li Yi, the master of landscape, and Xue Ji, the master of crane. However, what he has learned is bold and forward-looking. He takes off the rules and rules, and has passed the masters. Therefore, the painting has the beauty of all kinds of styles, such as mountain flowers, wild grass, secluded birds, exotic animals, river banks, river islands, fishing boats, etc.

Main works

This picture depicts more than 20 kinds of insects and animals, such as sparrow, dove, wax beak, turtle, grasshopper, cicada, bee, morning glory, etc., but in different states. Although it is not a complete composition, it is a sketch work. But it has a strict and unremitting composition relationship. The painting of rare birds emphasizes real description, attaches importance to form similarity, and texture is the outstanding feature of this work. You see how hard the tortoise shell is, it seems that it can knock out sound; the transparency of cicadas' wings and the sparrow's attitude of flying are vivid. Early flower and bird painting paid attention to sketching and required strict realistic ability.

Other works of Huang Hong

The painting of birds in snow bamboo

A picture of wild ducks in Xilu -- Huang Quan (Five Dynasties)

The album of spring birds in Fangxu