Bonsai appreciation: literati tree bonsai style and charm is wonderful

The literati bonsai originated in China. It can be traced back to Tang Dynasty. To understand what literati painting is, we must start with literati painting.

Literati painting generally refers to the paintings of scholar-officials in Chinese feudal society. In terms of subject matter, a large number of frustrated scholars are dissatisfied with the real society. They turn their attention to nature and borrow things to express their wishes. The representative figures of literati painting are Wang Wei, Wentong, Su Shi, four monks in the early Qing Dynasty and Wumen painting School.

Song Ma Yuan's Songyue

The concept of literati tree in bonsai art comes from the school of literati painting, that is, literati tree must have the characteristics of "literati painting". From the sublimity and detachment of the literati and literati, we can see that the main characteristics of the literati tree should be arrogant, delicate and incomplete. A strong, straight and plump bonsai can only be called a single-pole tree or a tall tree. This "healthy" tree lacks a "morbid" connotation and artistic conception. The literati tree must have a kind of artistic conception, vent a kind of emotion and reveal a kind of indignation.

Feng Bona (true cypress, 115 cm high, about 30 years old).

Therefore, in ancient Chinese literati paintings, most of the trees are thin and thin, while Mieba Ro is short and strong, and the trees are full of trees. This is caused by the aesthetic orientation of Chinese literati.

"Ben Yue" (true cypress, 85 cm high, about 30 years old).

The most artistic value of the literati tree is the "morbid" tree, full of "tragic" artistic conception. This conclusion can be drawn from the literati painting: literati painting reached the peak of the Qing Dynasty, the emergence of some top artists, the most prominent is the "four monks", and the "four monks" are the most prominent among the Bashan people and Shi Tao. Is the relics of the Ming Dynasty, painting and painting in the national bitterness, wanton, indulgent, concise, concise, exaggerated form, cold artistic conception. The trees they drew are rotten.

"into the cloud" (true cypress, 132 cm high, 30 years old)

Some people think that the literati tree must be unipolar, nor can it be called a literati tree. In fact, the most important artistic feature of the literati tree should be to see whether it can talk to the tree and whether it is full of the aesthetic characteristics of literati painting. If the requirements of arrogant, thin and incomplete literati paintings are met, more than two trees should not be hurt.

The character of the literati tree

A meaningful shape in the form of form. It was an accidental day of fun. This is an insight with no or no trace of touch. It is the influence, expression and revelation of the ideological realm of the literati.

Taste

In other words, the taste of the text. It is the morale of the literati's temperament, interest and charm, and the spiritual connotation of the literati's thin, detached, empty and deep.

Jane

Simple and clear. Some branches are sparse, branches and leaves are sparse, and there are many leaves; there are many branches, but few. This is a simple and simple expression. It can be simplified without simplification, or even simplified to "zero", which is so concise that it is almost abstract.