Chapter 132

At this point, Liu's face showed a sad look. Seeing this, Chu Chen quickly comforted him: "Liu, the deceased is gone, we should live happily. Your happiness and longevity is the best comfort for the deceased."

After listening to these words, Mr. Liu put away his sadness and said: "Xiao Chu, you can see the joke. When you are old, you are nostalgic. But you are right. We live as long as we are happy. Come on, let's see what's in this brocade box. "

When he came to Liu's studio, Chu Chen uncovered all the plastic paper wrapped around the brocade box. When he opened the box, he found that there was a silk painting and calligraphy inside.

In the field of calligraphy and painting, painting on silk, silk or silk fabric is called silk. However, although the silk version looks more expensive, its background color is not as white as the paper version. Moreover, due to more preparation before painting, the silk version is not as popular as the paper version.

Moreover, the silk version has two shortcomings, which are not only easy to be eaten by insects, but also easy to be broken, so it is easy to keep without paper. Therefore, although there are many volumes of ancient paintings and calligraphy, there are few works that can be preserved without damage, especially some works that have been preserved for thousands of years.

They saw that it was actually a silk work, and Chu Chen found that from the side, there was a light layer of light on the silk surface.

This kind of light on silk surface is commonly known as "mirror light". The reason for this effect is because of the characteristics of silk, so it needs to be re mounted several times for its preservation. Each time, glue and alum are added, and the back of the painting and calligraphy is polished with stone and wax. The number of times accumulated more, there is such a bright effect.

But this kind of situation generally only appears in the silk painting works before Song and Yuan Dynasties, and it is not seen in the silk paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties and later.

When they saw this work, it was at least in the song and Yuan Dynasties. They were surprised, but their expressions became very cautious.

After cleaning up the table, Chu Chen put on his gloves and carefully took the things out of the brocade box and slowly spread them on the table. A silk colored landscape painting immediately caught everyone's eyes.

Because traditional Chinese painting only uses colors, which is called water color.

Traditional Chinese painting has always attached great importance to color, so the ancient painting is called "Danqing". Dan is cinnabar, blue is indigo, which are commonly used in painting. The book of Jin says that Gu Kaizhi is "especially good at painting and painting." The title of the poem presented by Du Fu to Cao Ba, a famous painter of horses, is "Danqing Yin", which shows that the name of "Danqing" has been used by people.

Color design is a basic skill that ancient painters must master, so Sheikh listed "color matching with categories" as one of the "six methods".

This silk colored landscape painting depicts the hermit's life in the mountains. In the valley between the two mountains, there are streams winding down to form a ripple pool.

There are bamboo fenced cottages on the Bank of the pool, maids working in the backyard, shepherd boys riding oxen in front of the fence, and farmers on the path. A pavilion stretches into the water. Gao Shi sits on the fence and looks up. He looks very leisurely. His wife holds her son and plays with the maids. It's a calm and happy life.

There is a spring hanging on the hillside behind the house. It goes down to the foot of the mountain and gathers in the stream pool. The water flow and surge are delineated with fine lines and meticulous.

In this picture, the painting methods of stream pool, stream, hillside, near mountain and far mountain are different, and the painting methods of bamboo fence hut, near tree and far tree are also different, but their combination has rhythm and change, and the whole picture can be said to be very harmonious.

These scenes and the vivid characters in the painter's works are organically combined, which is a visual feast.

The high artistic level of this work is amazing. However, among the three people present, even Chu Chen has been involved in the antique world for five years. When the painting first came into their eyes, they felt a little familiar. When they saw the appreciation of the painting, everyone was shocked.

"This This How can that be, dad? I can't be wrong. "

Although Liu Qinshu has not been in front of Chu Chen up to now, she has no deep ability to appreciate antiques. But don't forget, she has been learning antique knowledge from old Liu since she was a child. No matter how bad her talent is, how poor will her level be after decades?

Looking at a number of inscriptions and postscripts, as well as more than ten bell seals and collection seals, each seal represents a famous figure in history, which proves that this painting is a work of orderly inheritance. Coupled with Liu Qinshu's professional level in painting and calligraphy for decades, it can almost be concluded that this work is an authentic one.

Of course, Liu Qinshu would not have been so surprised if it had been replaced by other people's original works, but the recognition of this painting was "Dong Yuan's painting by the Deputy envoy of Beiyuan", which had to make her pale.

Dong Yuan, named Shuda, was a painter of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties of China. His main activities were in the middle period of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Jing, the leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was the Deputy envoy of Beiyuan at that time, so he was also called "Dong Beiyuan". After the death of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he entered the Song Dynasty and was regarded as the pioneer of the Southern School of landscape painting.Dong Yuan is good at landscape and animal. Most of his landscape paintings are based on the real mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, which is not very steep. According to the records, he mostly paints the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, which is "plain and innocent, and there is no such thing in the Tang Dynasty". Mi Fu once praised his mountains and waters, saying: "the peaks and mountains are around, the clouds are obscure, and if you don't pretend to be clever, you will be naive.".

According to the records of the Five Dynasties' Huajian, there are two kinds of landscapes in Dongyuan: the same ink painting, sparse forest and distant trees, deep and deep, mountains and stones are covered with hemp and textured; the same coloring, textured text is rare, the color is thick and ancient, the characters are mostly red and green, and the faces are also plain. Both are excellent works.

Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty mentioned in his Mengxi Bi Tan: Dong Yuan is good at painting, long Gong and Qiulan in the distant future. He mostly writes about the real mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, which is not the brush of the strange mountains. He also says that his brush is very careless, and there are few kinds of near-sighted objects, but the scenery is charming in the distance In the history of painting, Dong Yuan, fan Kuan and Li Cheng were called the three masters in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

Dong Yuan is not only good at landscape painting, but also can draw cattle, tigers, dragons and figures. As a landscape painter, Dong Yuan is not specialized in one. The people of Song Dynasty praised its large-scale landscape design for its rich scenery, just like Li sixun's style.

But its most original and the highest achievement is the ink landscape. He used the methods of PI Ma Cun and Dian Tai to express the natural features of the Jiangnan area, and vividly described the scenery of the Jiangnan area with obscure peaks and hills, covered by islets and misty forests. His brushwork is very cursory, and his nearsightedness is almost different from that of objects. When he looks far away, the scenery is charming and creative in skill.

His famous works, the painting of waiting for crossing at the entrance of Xiajing mountain and the painting of Xiaoxiang, vividly show the hills in the south of the Yangtze River in summer and the special scenery of lush vegetation and clouds in the river and lake. His brush and ink techniques are fully adapted to the specific scenery he shows.

At the beginning, Dong Yuan's landscape paintings were favored by Li Jing, the leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

It is said that when Li Jing was young, he built a villa in Lushan Mountain to integrate the beautiful scenery of mountain spring, forest and garden. In order to see the scenery of Lushan Mountain from time to time, he specially sent Dong Yuan to draw a picture of Lushan Mountain.

Dong Yuan skillfully drew the five old peaks, the cloud and smoke pines, the spring rocks and the courtyard villas into one picture. After watching, Li Jing was full of praise and love. He ordered people to hang in his bedroom and enjoy the paintings day and night, just like living in Lushan Mountain for a long time. This shows that Dong Yuan's ingenious conception and superb landscape art.

Dong Yuan's existing works are few, only a few, such as "xiajingshankou to ferry", "Xiaoxiang", "Xiashan", "longsu country people" and "Xi'an map".

Nevertheless, Liu Qinshu was not surprised to see a work of Dong Yuan, but the one in front of them was clearly the painting of the river bank.

Liu put down his magnifying glass and said excitedly:

"what's the impossibility? Do you want to say that Xi an Tu is now in the metropolis of the United States? Hehe, I thought there was something wrong with that painting at the beginning. It was totally different from Xia Shan Tu and other works. As you can see, the technique of this painting is to use the Pima Cun created by Dong Yuan. "

"Moreover, the style of painting also includes the use of characters and animals, which is consistent with the painting of Xia Shan Tu. The most important point is that the first bell seal here is Jia Sidao, Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. You two should know what this means, right? So I think this is the real "riverside map."

Why did Mr. Liu mention this bell seal alone? That's because the first bell seal of Jia Sidao is also in the picture of river bank of metropolis. One is a work using Dong Yuan's Pima texturing method, while the other is a work using the typical techniques at that time. Which one do people think is authentic?

"Dad, do you think Dadu's Riverside painting is a modern forgery?"

Liu shook his head and said, "I don't believe that the painting is a modern forgery. I think its technique and style are still the style of the ancients. Judging from the present work, it is very likely that Jia Sidao got the authentic work of Dong Yuan and asked someone to copy it."

"Mr. Liu, is it possible that this picture is imitated?" Liu Qinshu asked curiously.

Mr. Liu laughed and replied, "what you said is not impossible. I admit that the work does have high artistic value. However, to prove that the work is really Dong Yuan's true work, we must come up with more hard evidence, or it will be wishful thinking."

"Our painting, no matter in technique or style, is based on evidence. Unless someone can prove that the works of those museums are fake, otherwise, my idea will not change."