Chapter 476: A Generation of Grandmasters

"The pen is only one or two, and the image has been answered!"

Peng Lao, who was beside Zhong Lao, sighed softly, and his hands were trembling slightly, whether it was the magical effect of this painting or the artistic conception shown in Shuifeng, it made him sigh very much.

"The grandmaster is the grandmaster, according to legend, Wu Daozi painted five golden dragons in the Datong Hall of the Lucky Palace, after the dragon is completed, the scales are as if they are real, faintly flying, every time it rains, that is, smoke, it seems that the rumors are not all exaggerated, see this painting, we know the greatness of ancient art!"

Dean Huang also sighed, he was talking about Wu Daozi's cruise of the Jialing River at the behest of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, as long as anyone who really loves calligraphy and painting knows.

According to legend, Li Longji heard the rumor that the Jialing River was beautiful, so he asked Wu Daozi to go to Shuzhong to draw what he saw and bring it back to Chang'an. From this point alone, it can be seen that Wu Daozi already had a high status at the beginning, and Li Longji was indeed very good to Wu Daozi in historical records.

After Wu Daozi went to Jialingjiang and came back, but he didn't bring anything back, Li Longji was a little angry and asked him why he didn't paint what he saw.

Wu Daozi's answer was also very simple, he said that he had already memorized these things, and as long as the emperor wanted to see them, he could draw them at any time.

Li Longji liked Wu Daozi very much, but at that time he was also angry with Wu Daozi's words, it happened that the Datong Hall had just been built, and the murals on the walls had not yet been painted, so Li Longji directly ordered Wu Daozi to immediately draw the Jialing landscape on the wall of the main hall, and if he couldn't paint it, he would be punished for the crime of bullying the king.

Some ministers were still worried about Wu Daozi because of this, thinking that Wu Daozi would definitely be finished this time, but Li Longji's order was said in front of the ministers, so it was naturally impossible to go back.

Wu Daozi just smiled after getting the order, and didn't care about it in particular, and then Wu Daozi concentrated on the pen, "It took a day to paint the beautiful scenery of the three hundred miles of the Jialing River on the palace wall, and the landscape is like a real thing, Li Longji was stunned after seeing these paintings."

Wu Daozi's painting was so good that even the emperor was stunned, and Wu Daozi was naturally not punished by the emperor.

On the mural, Wu Daozi vividly depicted the water of the Jialing River, three hundred miles of Jialing River step by step, the scenery is different, the scenery is wonderful, all of them are painted one by one. I saw that the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the green bamboo is dripping, "the surging river is ringing in the flow, and the bamboo raft and wooden row are flowing downstream; The white sails are dotted, the fishing songs answer each other, the Sichuan River trumpet, full of ears, the pavilions, the ladies' characters, vividly, a smile, there are articles.

Later, the painter general Li Sixun also painted on the wall of the palace, but he spent a few months, for which Li Longji also sighed and said: Li Sixun worked for a few months, and Wu Daoxuan only had a trace of one day.

After painting the Jialing landscape, Wu Daozi painted a great deal, and painted five golden dragons on the pillars of the main hall, these golden dragons will turn the clouds and spit out fog every time it rains, becoming a beautiful scene of the Datong Palace, and also deeply loved by Tang Xuanzong Li Longji.

Dean Huang said that this allusion is also recorded in the history of the Tang Dynasty, but many people in later generations thought that this was a deliberate exaggeration, and it was impossible for the painted paintings to really turn over the clouds and spit fog.

Even Dean Huang himself had the same idea before seeing this painting.

Liu Lao and the others nodded silently, and they were a little surprised at first when Dean Huang said such a thing, Dean Huang's words were equivalent to recognizing that this was Wu Daozi's true work.

But then after thinking about it, several old experts were all relieved, that is, they themselves agreed that this was the real work, "They have never seen a painting with such a high artistic conception, that is, the real painting of Yan Liben in Li Yang's hand, which is far inferior to the painting in front of them."

"To be able to see the true works of a generation of grandmasters, this life is enough!"

Zhong Lao sighed heavily, he was the oldest, he was almost eighty years old, "Recently, his health has not been very good, and he can see the true works of the painting saint in his old age, Zhong Lao's heart really has a sense of satisfaction Liu Dan smiled and looked at several experts, and his heart became even more proud.

The old man once said that Li Yang has the potential to become a generation of grandmasters, and Liu Gang didn't know much about the concept of grandmasters at the beginning, but now he finally understands why there are so few grandmasters and it is so difficult, and it is indeed not easy to become a grandmaster.

However, Liu Gang believes that no matter how difficult it is, "Li Yang will one day become a grandmaster, and in the future collecting world, Li Yang will have the same status as the originator."

"This man should be Emperor Tang Ming!"

Dean Huang stirred the water surface with his hand, and the picture that had just been stilled immediately moved again, which amazed several old experts.

"Yashan is the name of a mountain near ancient Chang'an, it is a royal garden, and there is only Li Longji who can have such a majestic person in the royal garden!"

Liu Lao smiled and nodded, the identity of the person in the painting was not written in the painting, but several old experts were well-informed people, so it was naturally not difficult to guess who the person in the painting was.

"I guess that Wu Daozi played a little trick again, Li Longji asked him to paint, he painted a four-like, but it can be shown with water, Li Longji will naturally be even more happy when he sees it!"

Peng Lao smiled and answered, Dean Huang and they all nodded in agreement, Wu Daozi does have such a character, it can be said that Tang Xuanzong Li Longji is angry with Wu Daozi, which is recorded in the history books.

"But how exactly is this paper made, and how can it have such a magical effect?"

Peng Lao shook his head again, and turned sideways to try to see the ancient painting at the bottom of the pot, he was also very curious about the magical effect of this painting, "It's a pity that even if he is sideways, he can't see the painting paper below."

"I have read an ancient book, in a minority tribe in Sichuan, there used to be a plant called fog grass, this grass will turn into a white mist when it meets water, I think this piece of paper is likely to use this grass to make materials, and the ink is also mixed with fog grass, showing such a magical effect!"

Dean Huang said slowly, Dean Huang's knowledge is very rich, if Li Yang hears Dean Huang's words, he will definitely admire it very much, the material of drawing paper is one thing that Li Yang wants to understand very much.

"I've also heard of the Mist Grass, but this kind of thing is no longer there, originally I thought that the Mist Grass was also a fictional thing made up by the ancients!"

Zhong Lao then said that he had traveled around "and had been to Sichuan and heard local rumors" and had deliberately searched for this miraculous plant, but in the end it was fruitless.

"I'm afraid I still have to do a technical appraisal if it's a fog grass or not, but this magical art is lost, it's a pity!" , Dean Huang sighed lightly, the ancients' broom self-cherishing has indeed caused a great obstacle to cultural inheritance, if there is no idea that this kind of craft is only left in itself in ancient times, there will be a lot of strange art in China now.

Liu Lao, Zhong Lao, Peng Lao, they are not talking" silently looked at the ancient paintings that appeared in the basin, and savored the artistic conception of the painting saint's pen.

This painting is actually not complicated, it completely has the style of Wu Daozi, concise and clear, and the characters are alive and active.

Especially the man who is suspected of being Li Longji is the best drawn, and his eyes can even turn with the fluctuations of the water surface, giving people that sense of majesty.

"I finally understand now why after Wu Daozi painted "Hell in Disguise", people who saw it didn't dare to eat meat, his paintings are too real!"

After a while, Liu Lao sighed again and said that "Hell in Disguise" is also one of Wu Daozi's masterpieces, and there is a detailed record in "Dongguan Yu Treatise".

According to legend, this painting was painted by Wu Daozi in Jingyun Temple, according to the monks of Jingyun Temple, all the people who have seen this painting have changed to do good because they are afraid of the sins they usually commit, and they are not even touched by meat, so that the slaughterhouse attached to the temple can not sell a little something, and finally forced to disappear.

Moreover, this painting is not like the traditional gods and monsters of the time, which has eerie pictures such as swords and oil pots, but pure gods and ghosts. can use the image of a character to scare others like that, which is enough to see how powerful Wu Daozi's skills are and how realistic his paintings are.

"With this painting, there will be no one who can question the name of the Painting Saint Grandmaster!" Dean Huang said again, Wu Daozi has not handed down the works, most of the murals he painted before have been damaged in history, and the paper silk paintings left behind have also disappeared in the inheritance. At present, there is still a lot of controversy about the only one in the Forbidden City, and many people say that the painting is an imitation of the Song Dynasty.

Dean Huang had refuted this point of view before, but after seeing this painting in the water, he also understood that the one in the Forbidden City collection was indeed an imitation, and compared with the artistic conception of the real Wu Daozi's calligraphy and painting, "That one is too far behind."

The four old experts stood there like this, constantly changing their positions and carefully admiring the ancient paintings in the basin, and from time to time someone stretched out their hands to wave the water surface to look at the dynamic picture.

Every time I saw the characters walking around, several old experts sighed that Wu Daozi could think of using water to turn a solid painting into a dynamic painting, and he could be called a peerless genius.

The smile on the corner of Liu Gang's mouth was very strong, and he kept standing there straight, thinking in his heart what the old man looked like when he saw this painting, and whether it would be as exaggerated as them.

In the VIP room, Li Yang was silently staring at the box in front of him, and at this time, Dean Huang and the others had already been out for an hour.

This trap box was a bit more troublesome than he thought, and Dan Cai had to start again because of an inadvertent mistake, but this time Li Yang learned the lesson of impatience, and every time he pushed the wooden grid, he would make more refined calculations.

In the case of the trap box in front of me, the four pictures are four kinds of huā, which are lotus huā, orchid huā, chrysanthemum huā and peony.

Huā's diagram was originally very simple, but it became more complicated after dispersion, and some of the pictures on the wooden lattice were so similar that it was impossible to distinguish which part of the painting was not carefully distinguished, which also increased the difficulty of cracking.

Fortunately, the organ box is well kept, and the lacquer paintings on the wooden lattice are still very clear, if there is a little damaged painting, Li Yang does not dare to have any guarantee of successful cracking