God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 804
Wang Qi went to the Porcelain Capital in 1901, and was able to follow Deng Bishan to learn ceramic painting art and figure portrait art by chance. With his studious character and deep comprehension, his attainments in porcelain painting skills soon surpassed that of Mr. Deng Bishan.

Mr. Deng Bishan is also one of the Bada Shanren, one of the scholars in the late Qing Dynasty, nicknamed "Iron Shoulder", and made a living by painting portraits for people in the early days. Later, he tried to make portraits on porcelain plates and became the pioneer of portraits on porcelain plates. , and is heavily influenced by Western painting styles, and the painting style is relatively tolerant. He is a very remarkable painter and porcelain plate artist.

However, Wang Qi surpassed Mr. Deng Bishan in just ten years and became one of the most famous porcelain panel painters in Ganzhou. Later, he came into contact with Huang Shen, who was the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, and fell in love with Huang Shen's painting style. He was eager to learn. Wang Qi began to imitate and learn from Huang Shen, and soon got Huang Shen's demeanor.Later, he absorbed Western painting methods and integrated the theory of yin and yang light and shade in Western painting methods into his skills, forming his own style.

And because Wang Qi has made dough figurines. Although dough figurines are a small skill, they are also a kind of sculpture. It is not uncommon to say that they are dough figurines. Therefore, Wang Qi's works often have a strong three-dimensional sense, which looks like When looking at sculptures, it can often leave a deep impression on people.

Of course, Wang Qi's level cannot be said to be the existence of a master-level painter. On the contrary, Wang Qi is still a little bit inferior compared to those master-level painters, especially his personal style has a taste of Huang Shen. At first glance, it looks like a little Huang Shen, which is not the level of a master painter.

Compared with Wang Qi, another master surnamed Wang among the Eight Friends of Zhushan has a much more unique style. Although he also studied under many painters, he can be regarded as a school of his own. This person is Wang Dafan.Wang Dafan learned to paint ancient ceramics in his sister's red shop since he was a child, and Wang Xiaotang, a famous porcelain painter at that time, also made a living painting porcelain in that red shop, so it can be said that Wang Dafan studied porcelain painting with Wang Xiaotang since he was a child, so It has laid a very solid foundation and provided a strong foundation for future development.

Later, Wang Dafan's works were selected to participate in the Panama Exposition in 1915 and won a gold medal, so he became a famous master of porcelain painting for a while.

In addition to Wang Qi and Wang Dafan, the works of Wang Yeting, Deng Bishan, and Liu Yucen also have a strong personal style. If you can grasp these style characteristics, it is basically not difficult to identify the works of Bada Shanren.

Xu Jingxing had guessed this when he looked at these double-sided porcelain panels and screen cores at Zhou Junming's house. Now he studied carefully and was more sure of his thoughts.

The screen cores of these four double-sided painted porcelain plates are all pastel porcelain plate paintings, and the paintings are eight themes of "plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, beast, bird, mermaid". Needless to say, the four gentlemen of plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum are used for this theme. In the beast, bird, and mermaid, the beast is two kittens, the bird is a magpie, the people are a group of ladies, and the fish is a tank of carp.

Xu Jingxing carefully observed that the one who drew plums should be Liu Yucen, the one who drew orchids was Cheng Fu, the one who drew bamboos was Bi Botao, the one who drew chrysanthemums was who, and the one who drew cats was

For Wang Yeting, the one who painted magpies was Wang Qi, the one who painted ladies must be Wang Dafan, and the one who painted carp is not surprisingly Deng Bishan.

These personal characteristics are too distinct, especially Wang Dafan's characters, Deng Bishan's fish and insects, and Wang Qi's magpies. The characteristics of the three of them are the most recognizable.

As I said before, Wang Qi's style is very similar to Huang Shen's, with a strong Huang Shen's style in every stroke. People who are familiar with Huang Shen will know that this painting is Wang Qi's painting, because Except for Wang Qi, few people can learn Huang Shen's style.

And Wang Dafan's portraits have always been the best, especially good at "literati painting", that is, the creative style that combines the beauty of interest, form and artistic conception. The characters in his works are very vivid, whether they are gods or mortals or They are historical figures, and their movements, demeanor and other images after painting all reveal a feeling of liveliness or flesh, which will make people subconsciously think that the villains in these paintings are living figures.

This kind of feature is difficult to imitate, because it requires real connotation and background, not only superb painters, but also a deep understanding of history, humanities and other cultural aspects, so that every move of the characters created can conform to history, or It conforms to people's cognition, so that the audience will have an inexplicable sense of intimacy when appreciating these paintings.

And this feature is also Xu Jingxing's favorite, and he also took this path, but he seldom paints figures, so it is difficult to fully display this style.

But also because of this, he can be sure that the lady in this porcelain plate painting is Wang Dafan's handwriting.

As for Deng Bishan's carp, let alone, Deng Bishan specializes in insect fish. Although the painting style is a bit monotonous, the level is beyond doubt, and the characteristics are also very distinctive.Moreover, Deng Bishan's calligraphy level is very high, and he is the No.1 proper calligraphy among the eight friends of Zhushan. He is good at writing cursive script, and likes to use the center to move the pen. .

So when he saw the two vivid big carps, and then saw the line of small poems written in lines next to him, Xu Jingxing immediately decided that this was Deng Bishan's work.

Four double-sided painted porcelain paintings, eight pictures in total, the creators of three of them were identified by him, and the others did not need to be guessed, not to mention the similar styles.

In other words, he was basically sure that this set of screens was made by the eight friends of Zhushan, but he didn't know why they didn't leave their own inscriptions.

As far as the artistic content of this set of screens is concerned, if you have the money, it's easy to sell for seven figures. He is a rich man, and when he comes across such a set of screens, he is willing to buy it for less than 500 million.

That is to say, he got a top-quality screen worth millions from Zhou Junming. Although no one would pay him such a high price now, antiques are not afraid to sell as long as they come across people who know the goods. not going out, right?

Ordinary people can't identify the origin of this set of screens without inscriptions, but what about experts?What about big collectors?Those people can always be identified.

When the time comes, bring the appraisal results to the auction, and I am sure that this set of screens will make a lot of buyers go crazy. After all, the works of Bada Shanren are not very large in the world, and each set is very rare, let alone the appearance and workmanship. so good.

(End of this chapter)