Zheng Banqiao (1693— 1765) was an official, painter and writer in the Qing dynasty. Name Xie, word Kerou, Han nationality, Xinghua, Jiangsu. He lived in Yangzhou all his life and made a living by selling paintings. One of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou.
His poems, books and paintings are outstanding and unique, and he is known as the "three musts" in the world. He is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pines, chrysanthemums and other plants, among which bamboo painting has been more than 50 years, with the most outstanding achievements. Author of Complete Works of Banqiao. Kangxi scholar, Yongzheng juren, the first year of Qianlong Jinshi. After learning, he worked as an official in Fanxian County, Henan Province and wei county City, Shandong Province.
Zheng Banqiao is famous for his strangeness, and his strangeness is rather like a living Buddha. There are always sincere, humorous and sour things in Strange. Whenever he sees corrupt officials and traitors parading in the street, he draws a piece of Meilan bamboo stone and hangs it on the prisoner as a screen to attract the audience and awaken the people.
Extended information of Zheng Banqiao's artistic characteristics.
Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy, which is a mixture of official script and running script, calls itself "six and a half books" and is called "Banqiao Book". Most of his paintings are bluegrass and bamboo stones, and Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy art with bluegrass and bamboo as its soul is unique in the history of China's calligraphy.
Zheng Banqiao's poems on paintings have got rid of the traditional mode of painting with poems or painting with poems. Every painting he draws should be inscribed with a poem, and the title must be excellent, so as to achieve the purpose of "picturesque image" and "poetic attack on painting" Poetry and painting infinitely embody and expand the breadth of the picture. Zheng Banqiao's poems on paintings pay attention to real life and have profound ideological content. His criticism is like a gun and a sword.
His poems are diverse, unconventional and eclectic, which naturally makes them interesting, makes them well-written and well-written, and adds a lot of color to his paintings. The so-called decent style is to conceive according to the actual picture and pay attention to the formal beauty of composition. Therefore, he will write poems on the side, up and down, vertically and horizontally, or between orchids and vines, and observe its shape intermittently, uneven and dense.
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