Kunshen, one of the four monks in the early Qing Dynasty, was good at calligraphy or landscape painting.

Kun Can was a monk, a painter and one of the four great monks in the early Qing Dynasty. His real name is Liu Wuling. He lived in Nanjing when he was a child, and his mother died young. I left home to survive. At the age of 43, I traveled around, but I also met many literati and learned a lot about my calligraphy style from my friends. Kun can himself is not legendary, frail and taciturn, and lives in a quiet place of Buddhism, so his mood is quite suitable for studying literature and art.

Kuncan calligraphy

Kun can likes to draw landscape paintings, with complex composition and many distinct layers, but without losing his meaning. And Kun can's calligraphy is also very good. In my opinion, people who are generally good at painting landscape paintings will be good calligraphers. Because they are meticulous in their work, how can they tolerate others writing words on them that they don't want? However, Kun Can's calligraphy works are few, and most of them are on landscape paintings, from which we can only get a glimpse.

Everything Kun can writes is vivid, and Kun can's calligraphy is not unexpected. The strokes are casual and natural, but independent. It hasn't been written to the point where people can't understand it. They are visually comfortable. As you can see, Kun can's calligraphy is rich and weak, and skillful. He didn't lose his strength where he wrote, but he had an advantage. This also makes Kun Can's words not soft and has a kind of car-scrapping. Furthermore, perhaps Kun can has been better than a Buddhist for many years, and his calligraphy is plain and calm because of his peace of mind.

It's like seeing a person, Kun can's words also show his own character, silent and indifferent without losing charm and vitality. Although Kun can's calligraphy is not as good as painting, it won't make the painting pale when put on.

Kuncan landscape painting

Kun Can, born in 16 12, is a famous painter in Qing Dynasty, who is good at painting landscapes. Kun can liked painting since he was a child and became a monk at the age of twenty. The four painting monks in the early Qing Dynasty refer to Kun Shen, Shi Tao, Hong Ren and Badashan people. Kun Can's landscape painting is a must, and his dry pen and light ink rendering make his landscape painting full of characteristics.

Kuncan landscape painting

Kun Can is good at painting and proficient in figure flowers, especially Kun Can's landscape paintings. Kun can's fascination with landscape painting has a lot to do with his personal love of traveling and treading water. When he was only twenty years old, he gave up his career and became a monk, calling himself a disabled Taoist. He plunged into the arms of mountains and rivers and traveled around the world. Kun can, who has removed all the dust, feels the magnificence of the country's mountains and rivers in peace, and a calm heart takes him to understand different beautiful scenery.

Kun Can's landscape paintings are nothing novel, but ordinary and common scenery. The strength of Kun Can's painting skill lies in his ability to turn ordinary into legend. Kun Can's first teacher was Wang Meng, one of Fuchun's famous painters. Kun Can's painting style is more influenced by Wang Meng, or he prefers Wang Meng's painting style. His landscape paintings are vigorous, thick and not clumsy.

Kun Can's landscape painting has always been a template for painters to learn to worship. Zhou Lianggong, a scholar and great connoisseur at that time, also highly admired and respected Kun Can. He even wrote a biography for Kun Can, which was included in his picture reading. For 300 years, the painting style of Kun Can's landscape painting has been deeply affecting the painting world and has become the benchmark for future generations to learn and imitate.

The verdant sky map of Kunming.

The full name of this painting should be the sky map of the Qing Dynasty. Let's talk about the author first. His name is Kun Can. The man is weak and ill, so he needs to have a rest. Therefore, his temper is also taciturn and not good at talking. Therefore, he can devote himself wholeheartedly to his favorite career of writing poems and painting, and this painting "Kun Can Qing Tian" is a masterpiece.

The verdant sky map of Kunming.

The painting as a whole looks stable and atmospheric, and there seems to be a power hidden between the quiet scenery. Generally speaking, painting expresses the author's mood, so we can also see Kun Can's mood when painting. This painting depicts the scenery in the mountains. According to the impression, it should be autumn. The overall color is ink, there is no other color, but the trees on the mountain are all painted, so it should be autumn.

This painting skillfully uses the shades of pen and ink, with wet pen and light ink outlining the foreground and dry pen and heavy ink outlining the background, so that the whole picture presents a sense of hierarchy between mountains. Coupled with the vigorous and powerful brushwork of the author, the whole picture is very textured. Let's take a look at the clear spring in the distant mountains. The ancients paid attention to this feng shui. If the mountain has only trees and no water, it will be too heavy and lifeless. If you add this wisp of clear spring, the overall scenery will have a touch of aura. This mountain spring is clear and cold, but inexplicably makes people feel the refreshing meaning of the mountain, so this mountain spring is the aura of the whole painting. Coupled with the clouds behind, the painting is lighter, and this heavy feeling is halved.

Finally, let's look at the houses in this mountain. Although China's landscape paintings are exquisite, the composition is absolutely unambiguous. Therefore, the houses hidden in the mountains balance the whole painting and add a touch of charm. It seems that this scenery is where Kun can is.