Xie Shichen

Xie Shichen

Xie Shichen, a painter of Ming Dynasty, was born in Wu (now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province) with the name of "Sizhong" and "Chuxian". Xie Shichen worked in the mountains and waters, learning from Wuzhen, and changed a little with Shen Zhou's style. Most of them are long scrolls with magnificent peaks. You are good at painting water, rivers, lakes and seas. The brush and ink are free and powerful, between Dai Jin and Shen Zhou. Only the depiction is not subtle enough, and there are few beautiful rhymes.

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Xie Shichen (1487 -?) Ming Dynasty painters. It's called Sizhong, and it's called Chuxian. Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) people, 81 years old, fashion alive. Gong calligraphy is good at official script. He is good at landscape, learning from Wuzhen and Shenzhou, and changing a little. He has a unique style of "Zhejiang School" and "Wu School".

Most of the works are composed of long scrolls, which are famous for being good at painting water. Rivers, lakes and seas are all excellent. In addition, there are overlapping mountains, towering and precipitous, and the strokes are either vigorous, vigorous and gloomy, or full of changes. It has been handed down from generation to generation, such as the painting of mountain and river, the painting of seeking seclusion with a staff, the painting of snow in Wudang, and the painting of banishing immortals playing with the moon.

Representative paintings

The album of "the painting of mountain scenery", "the painting of seeking seclusion with a staff", "the painting of snow in Wudang", "the painting of cold in autumn", "the painting of banishing immortals playing with the moon", "the painting of woodcutter landscape in Huanghe mountain" and "the painting of poetry in duling"

Works introduction

On the right side of the picture, a high mountain stands in the air, the peaks and rocks are rolling, and the miscellaneous trees between the mountains and rocks are withering. The corresponding lower left part is a close-up slope stone, with towering ancient pines curling above it and clear springs flowing down the mountain. Between the mountain and the close view, a big river meanders from afar. The painter also arranges four houses for the characters in the picture. They are the solitary boat traveler in the river, the temple in the dense forest in the mountain, the scholar in the small building on the near slope, and the master and servant riding a donkey on the wooden bridge in the mountain stream. Among them, the scholar in the small building is the most detailed. The building is on the second floor, with only one corner exposed on the ground floor Sitting on a carved fence, wrapped in a scarf and a cloak, you can enjoy the scenery safely. The most magical part of this painting is the snow on its face. Looking from afar, the painter only feels the chill. He skillfully uses the contrast between the ink and the white silk to flexibly outline the crack and dye, leaving traces of heavy snow everywhere on the hillside, treetops, roofs and slab bridges.

On the left side of the picture, the painter wrote two poems with a title: "who lives alone in the East Tower is the snow rising stream of Qianshan Mountain." This poem was not written by an artist, but by Du Mu of Tang Dynasty, which said: "Song Temple once lived in the same place, and the night was deep, and the moon was high and low in the hall. Who is leaning on the east tower column? It is the snow rising stream of Qianshan Mountain. " In his hurry, the painter wrote two wrong words, or he intentionally rewritten them, which is not known.

This poem was written by Du Mu when he was a judge of Xuanzhou League training in the early Tang Dynasty. Xuancheng East Wanxi, North Jingting mountain, the scenery is very beautiful. The Kaiyuan Temple in the city was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and is one of the local scenic spots. During his stay in Xuancheng, Du Mu often visited Kaiyuan Temple to enjoy and write poems. The painter picked up the poem at random, and compared it with the painting, it was very appropriate. It was also a combination of poetry and painting.