Xu Beihong was born in poverty, and he had a personal experience of the life of the peasants, and his French teacher Da Yang was also a painter who was good at depicting peasants. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Cattle is Xu Beihong's special favorite theme, which also stems from its local plot, Beihong's childhood is relatively hard, there are a few acres of melon fields at home, but there is no cattle, he usually helps the neighbors with cattle to herd cattle, and can borrow cattle when farming, ploughing cattle pastoral songs have become a good memory of his childhood, in the displacement during the Anti-Japanese War, he also repeatedly borrowed cattle to express his vision of a peaceful life.

Zhang Junyi knew that the painting in front of him was a work created by Xu Beihong in 1951 on the theme of farming.

Through Zhang Aiguo's introduction, Zhang Junyi knew that this "Kyushu Nothing to Do" must be Xu Beihong's true work.

Zhang Junyi held back the excitement in his heart, and carefully observed the most important masterpiece of Xu Beihong in his later years, which is also the most important work of Xu Beihong in the folk collection.

In the painting, the cow and the three people gradually drift away and become smaller, which adopts the principle of focal perspective in Western painting, but ignores the depiction of the distant scene, and only uses a few loose light ink strokes to express the blurred image of the earth, so that the visual focus is still focused on the farming scene.

On the right side of the picture is a willow tree with a thick trunk, and its branches grow upwards in a "V" shape, but only a part of the willow tree is captured, and the picture is divided into three parts, resulting in the richness of the spatial distribution.

At the same time, the willow tree and the team of people and cattle are basically vertical, which makes the overall composition simple, but it is rich in changes in stability, and tends to be stable in change, which expands the spatial expressiveness of Chinese painting.

Farmers and cows are depicted in a sketch of the three farmers, all of whom are old but still working hard. The former ploughs the ground with its feet outstretched, its body leaning forward, its palms clenched, and it is exerting all its strength to drive the oxen to plow, and the muscles of the face and hands are tightening due to the cohesion of strength, and the dynamics of this moment are vivid and vivid.

The latter two are a peasant woman and a farmer, both hoeing, swinging the hoe, bending over, the range of movement is not large, and the expression is calm, which forms a contrast with the former.

"Kyushu Nothing to Do" not only makes Zhang Junyi feel the hard and fierce side of peasant life to a certain extent, as well as the plain and uniform side, but also makes Zhang Junyi appreciate the greatness of ordinary life, so as to be full of respect for the hard-working farmers, and at the same time warns the world that no matter how old they are, they must work hard and struggle in order to get their own harvest.

The details of the design in the painting are very ingenious, the ploughing cow in the painting is skinny, and Xu Beihong's other cattle are very different, the painting method first outlines the shape with an ink pen, and then uses ochre to apply the color, the brush is precise, the shade and dry and wet of each stroke show the texture of the cow hair, and the cow body is drawn to the back of the concave and convex, and the cow leg looks like the legs of the galloping horse that Xu Beihong is good at, forming a unique shape of "cow body and horse legs".

The trunk of the willow tree is written in heavy ink, which not only expresses the rough texture and vicissitudes of the trunk, but also contrasts with the soft wicker and the willow leaves rendered by Garcinia cambogia in light ink. The whole painting combines the modeling methods in Western painting with the brush and ink of Chinese painting, which has both accurate and vivid modeling and flexible brush and ink, which is a masterpiece of realism that combines the essence of Chinese and Western painting methods.

Zhang Junyi likes the 150×250cm masterpiece in front of him, and knows that this famous painting made by Xu Beihong in his later years is quite commemorative, and it is definitely the most valuable famous painting made by Xu Beihong in his life.

Zhang Junyi knew that the famous painting of Xu Beihong in front of him with "Kyushu has nothing to do and is happy to cultivate" was given to Guo Moruo, and there was an ingenious intention in this famous painting: Guo and Xu were also "Confucian ministers", but they both had the heart of a literati chivalrous man who ran for the country and the people, so as to forge ahead and jointly do their own meager efforts for the construction of New China!

"Mr. Zhang, you can make a price!" Zhang Junyi said indifferently.

"Don't hide it from Mr. Zhang, this painting of "Kyushu Nothing to Do" made by Mr. Beihong in his later years, we Rong Bao Zhai made a lot of effort to acquire it, if Mr. Zhang really wants it, the minimum is one million yuan!" Zhang Aiguo thought about it, and then gritted his teeth and said.

To tell the truth, Zhang Aiguo did not give Zhang Junyi a high price, because Zhang Aiguo knew that as long as he won over a high-roller like Zhang Junyi, it would be indispensable to increase the turnover of their Rong Bao Zhai in the future, and Zhang Aiguo would never be able to do it to quench their thirst.

"Wrap it up, I want it!" Zhang Junyi said directly, without even thinking about it, quite refreshing and direct.

Zhang Junyi has more than 30 years of memories of his previous life, but he knows that in his previous life, on the evening of December 5, 2011, at the BJ Poly auction, this "Kyushu Nothing to Do" unambiguously started at 150 million, and the price soared to 200 million after 1 minute, and then the price entered the stalemate stage, and new buyers joined when the hammer fell for 230 million, and finally fell under the hammer at a price of 232 million, breaking the price record of Xu Beihong's works.

The two treasures displayed by Zhang Aiguo later, although they are also rare treasures, are inferior to Chenghua Chicken Cup and "Kyushu Nothing to Do", but Zhang Junyi is still very happy to pack them.

After all, the blue and white porcelain vases of the Yongle period, the rhino horn cups of the Ming Dynasty, and the cursive script of Wang Duo are all rare masterpieces, and these things will definitely cause a bloody storm if they are placed in the auctions of the 21st century in the later generations.

Even in the end, Zhang Junyi selected 10 porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong periods in the promotional album of antiques on the third floor he just watched, including the Qianlong pastel porcelain, and all the antiques added up to a total of 7.8 million yuan.

According to the exchange rate of 1 Hong Kong dollar and 0.29 yuan, Zhang Junyi waved his hand and directly opened a check of 26.9 million Hong Kong dollars, and handed it to Zhang Aiguo, who was full of excitement.

No wonder Zhang Aiguo was so behaving in front of Zhang Junyi, in less than half a day, Zhang Junyi increased the turnover of 7.8 million yuan to Rong Bao Zhai, which was the turnover of Rong Bao Zhai for a whole year last year.

Zhang Aiguo took the check in Zhang Junyi's hand with trembling hands, and said excitedly: "Mr. Zhang will definitely be our most honored customer of Rong Bao Zhai in the future!"

"Mr. Zhang is polite, this is also something I like in your Rong Bao Zhai, or I can't spend it even if I want to!" Zhang Junyi said with a smile.

After Zhang Junyi finished speaking, everyone in the room laughed.

Zhuang Jing was a little scoffed at Zhang Aiguo's excitement next to him, after all, if they had seen the scene of Zhang Junyi spending money in Xiangjiang, they would have known that the money Zhang Junyi had spent on buying these antiques just now was a drizzle.

After Zhang Aiguo instructed professionals to package the antiques purchased by Zhang Junyi, everyone sat in the reception room drinking tea and chatting.

"Mr. Zhang, you also know that I came from Xiangjiang, and it is not very convenient to come to the mainland, can you Rong Bao Zhai help me acquire some of the five famous kilns, I am not worried about the porcelain of the five famous kilns for a day or two. Zhang Junyi thought for a while and said to Zhang Aiguo.

"Five famous kilns, this is not a simple matter. When Zhang Aiguo heard Zhang Junyi's request, his eyebrows couldn't help frowning, and he said slowly.

"If it were simple, I wouldn't ask Mr. Zhang to help, of course, as long as it's genuine, the price is not a problem, I don't care how much money you pay in, but I will buy it from your Rong Bao Zhai at 20% higher than the market price, of course, if there are other rare treasures, I will not refuse, of course, I don't want ordinary goods!" Zhang Junyi said.