Introduction of Zhang Zhaoxiang's Painting Style

He painted flower feathers, painted them beautifully, and prepared them skillfully, blending the boneless cloud with the western realistic method. He uses photography to capture the various poses of flowers, organize, change and write locally, so his works can be deep and realistic. Inspired by photography, he made a square picture frame with wooden strips, and sketched the scenery with the picture frame in order to find a sense of composition and change the composition and angle. He is also very particular about the choice of pigments. It is said that he was employed by Ruyige for a short time and received some remuneration, that is, precious pigments collected by the people. The color is also very thin. Clever but unrestrained guidance. The flowers are back to back, and the branches lean back and compete with each other. They are smooth, energetic and beautiful.

In the Jingu painting circle, a new generation of painting style was created, and many people studied for a while and settled down. Huang and Ma both belong to this category, followed by Lu Wenyu, Huang and Jiang.

For more than half a century, the clan style has not diminished. There are also painters in Beijing who don't know much about mathematics, such as Wang Songgu (Xiaozhu) and Li () of Hushe.

When Zhang Zhaoxiang, a flower and bird painter in Jinmen, was mentioned, all the elders in Lvli praised him. Zhang Zhaoxiang (1852- 1908), Zi An, was an influential painter in Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty. When I was a child, my family was poor and I didn't read much, but I was very talented and liked painting. Sketch casually, the image is complete, and people who see it praise it. Later, with the recommendation of relatives and friends, he studied painting in Mengxiu Village and was highly valued. Since then, it has been traced back to Huang Quan, Yun, Zou Xiaoshan and Zhang Tai in the Qing Dynasty, and has integrated the techniques of western painters and absorbed the strengths of ancient and modern schools. Turning to multi-division has formed its own style. In addition to flowers and birds, he also painted landscapes and figures, but not many have been handed down.

Zhang Zhaoxiang is an enlightened person in artistic thought, which is his specialty. He not only inherits the tradition, but also learns from nature. He lives in the hutong of Baogong Temple in the old city, and his carefree studio calls himself "Listening to Song Xuan". In order to constantly observe the growth law of flowers, a small garden was specially opened in the yard to carefully cultivate all kinds of flowers and trees. This garden became a specimen garden of his paintings.

His colorful flower-and-bird paintings are rich and peaceful, colorful and pleasing to the eye. In addition to meticulous painting, I occasionally splash ink on freehand brushwork, which reveals a little taste of literati painting.

"Flowers of Fruits and Vegetables" is his early masterpiece at the age of 28 in the fifth year of Guangxu (1879). He painted dozens of fruits, vegetables and flowers by boneless method, such as cherry, loquat, Chinese cabbage, radish, peony, chrysanthemum and so on. , fresh and vivid, water and elegant colors, very prepared, showing his skill is not thin. In addition, each album page is also equipped with excerpts from Guo Pu's five-character Poems of Wandering Immortals; Dignified and smooth, warm and thick brushwork, quite Han Li charm. It can be seen that his official script skills are very rich, but his legacy is very few, so it is more precious.