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Ren Bonian (1840- 1896), a famous painter in the late Qing Dynasty, was born in Zhejiang and later came to Shanghai. For thirty years, he made a living by selling paintings. He is good at figure painting and flower-and-bird painting, and he is the leader and outstanding representative of Shanghai School in the late Qing Dynasty. Together with Ren Xiong, Ren Xun and Yu Ren, they are called "Shanghai Four Masters", and together with Pu Hua, Xu Gu and Wu Changshuo, they are called "Shanghai Home".

Ren Bonian was clever since childhood. As a teenager, he "raised the flag" in the army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It was not until the fall of Tianjing that Ren Bonian returned to his hometown. Then he went to Shanghai to study painting with Ren Xiong. I will sell paintings for a long time in Shanghai. Ren Bonian is frank and untidy. He was almost 30 years old when he studied painting. He painted many pictures and became famous. However, he suffered great physical and mental pain, which led to his premature death at the age of 56.

Author: Anyi (Bai Nian)

Life: 1840- 1896

Name of the work: Five-Lun Diagram

Material of the work: paper coloring

Size of the work:/kloc-0 168.5×83.5cm

Year of Creation: Guangxu Chen Geng (1880)

Auction record: Guardian 20 1 1 Autumn Auction sold for 32.2 million yuan.

Record:

1. Ren Bonian Studies, 2,75 pages, published by Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House in April, 1982.

2. Ren Bonian-Chronicle, Papers, Treasures and Works, 47 pages, Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Publishing House,

Published in June 1989.

3. 75 pages of China's secret paintings, published by Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House 199 1.

Several key points of understanding Ren Bonian:

A key point: Ren Bonian is the pioneer of the new tradition of "realistic" popular painting style.

To evaluate whether a painter can be called an altar leader, the most important thing is whether he leads the painting fashion of an era and represents the painting height of an era. Ren Bonian (1840- 1896), whose real name is Run, was born in Wuhang, Zhejiang. Ren is a portrait painter. Influenced by his family, he was able to draw at an early age. In his youth, Ren Bonian "raised the flag" in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and didn't return to his hometown until Tianjing fell. Later, I went to Shanghai to study painting with my uncle Ren Xiong and my uncle Ren Xun, and lived in Shanghai for a long time by selling paintings. At that time, after Shanghai was turned into a trading port, foreign businessmen, landlords, rich gentry and bureaucrats gathered and prospered, and suddenly became the richest commercial metropolis in the south of the Yangtze River. A new civic culture has emerged, and a "realistic" popular painting style that adapts to this civic culture, the appreciation taste of the civic class and the market trend has also emerged. Ren Bonian's paintings are very popular, and his works are rich in themes, from mythical figures to secular figures in rural areas, which are well known and loved by citizens. He has super realistic ability and pays great attention to sketch at ordinary times. It is said that in order to observe the cat fighting in the room, he climbed over the window onto the tile, followed it and sketched with a hook. His first-class realistic ability laid a solid foundation for him to become the leader of "realistic" popular painting. "Realism" and "popularization" are also important keywords to interpret the whole "Shanghai School".

The second point: How did Ren Bonian form his unique artistic achievements?

Ren Bonian's painting art originated from art, and he once taught Ren Bonian the method of painting, "being able to paint, moving to Xiaoshan and becoming a rice merchant" (Xu Beihong's Review of Ren Bonian). With this skill, after the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Ren Bonian made a living by selling paintings in Ningbo. After arriving in Shanghai, I met Ren Xiong by chance, studied painting in Suzhou with the Stone Man brothers, followed Chen Laolian with Ren Xun, and later learned the double hook coloring method and coloring method since the Jin and Tang Dynasties, inheriting the tradition and integrating the strengths of various factions, and made great progress in painting. Later, he absorbed the sketches and colors of western paintings and gradually formed his own unique painting style. According to some data, Ren Bonian studied western painting methods such as pencil sketch in Tushanwan Gallery, the cradle of western painting in China, and some sketches were drawn with 3B pencils. In addition, he has made great achievements in flower-and-bird painting and landscape painting. In other words, Ren Bonian's technique can be said to be a combination of tradition and western painting, which is very rare in the late Qing Dynasty. This is also an important reason why he is called the iconic figure of "Shanghai School". No wonder Xu Beihong spoke highly of Ren Bonian, saying, "Only in the year of Bo, he is a hero and unique." "Those who can really do freehand brushwork in ancient and modern times will push the year of Bo to the extreme." Xu Beihong thinks that Ren Bonian is "one of the China painters after Chou Shizhou".

The third point: the relationship between Ren Bonian and Wu Changshuo.

Ren Bonian is four years older than Wu Changshuo and roughly belongs to his peers. But Ren Bonian entered Shanghai 43 years earlier than Wu Changshuo, and became famous in his early 30s. Wu Changshuo was 68 years old when he settled in Shanghai. Therefore, in the pedigree of Shanghai style, Ren Bonian's qualifications and qualifications are older than Wu Changshuo's, and he should belong to the first generation of Shanghai style leaders, while Wu Changshuo belongs to the second generation of Shanghai style leaders. Although Wu Changshuo became famous late and moved to Shanghai late, he was a late bloomer, full of confidence and strength, and made extraordinary efforts. He not only reached the peak of the painting and calligraphy art of "Shanghai School", but also led the whole "Shanghai School" painter to take off as a whole. Wu Changshuo, a student and close friend of Ren Bonian, has an unusual relationship. Wu Changshuo revered Ren Bonian as a "painting", and he once carved a "painting slave" as a gift. The border section said, "Mr. Bernian painted strangely, and he didn't have time to ask for it." He changed his name to "painting slave" and was good at comparing himself. " Ren Bonian marveled at Wu Changshuo's application of Shi Guwen's seal script technique in his paintings, and predicted that he would become the mainstay of his paintings. Behind them, Wu Changyou came from behind. Why is Wu Changshuo's fame and status higher than that of Ren Bonian? There are many reasons, and I think one of them is very important: Ren Bonian generally appears as a professional painter, while Wu Changshuo appears as a literati painter. This difference in identity has a great influence.

The fourth point: Ren Bonian has a very harmonious relationship with "Shanghai School" painters, and he is enthusiastic about painting and calligraphy activities and public welfare undertakings, which is also an important reason why he enjoys high popularity and status.

When Ren Bonian first arrived in Shanghai, he set up a stall to sell paintings at the Simalu Night Market. He got great help from Hu Gongshou, a painter who has a considerable position among Shanghai painters. He introduced him to Hu Tiemei, the manager of Guxiang Room, settled his life, and strongly recommended him to the then money association and other economic figures, such as banker Tao Junxuan, businessman Zhang Jingfu and Jiuhuatang boss Huang Jinshang, and helped him establish his position in Shanghai painting circles. At that time, the two of them were neck and neck. Ren Bonian and Xugu are also very close. Ren Bonian appreciates Xu Gu's character and painting, and once painted portraits for Xu Gu. Xu Gu also appreciates Ren Bonian's outstanding artistic talent. Ren Bonian died before 1896, a few months after "talking and laughing for a day, writing a portrait of Xugu and writing a poem on it". When I went to live, I seemed to have foresight. I was only seventy years old. "(Murray at sea) Xugu heard this and burst into tears. Such as an elegy cloud: "The pen is impermanent, and if you don't make a new machine, your art is excellent! Who can inherit the person who took over from heaven? "In the same year, Xu Gu followed his friends. Ren Bonian is an artist with deep concern and responsibility for the people. There are many things in his works that reflect real life and criticize the disadvantages of the times. Whenever there is an activity of painting and calligraphy for disaster relief, he must be a leader who looks high and never refuses to participate because of his high status and high painting price.

The fifth point: Ren Bonian was a master among the "Shanghai School" painters at that time.

Less than 40 years old, he became one of the first-class painters at sea, enjoying equal popularity with Zhang Zixiang, Hu Gongshou and Yang Borun. What I want to draw from Ren Bonian is "limited". At that time, he was about a foot of 3 yuan Ocean, and the embellishment of second-rate and third-rate painters was only a few cents to 1 yuan. His "Zhu Hua Sanduo Tu" adopts panoramic composition, and the picture almost enriches the whole picture. Only in the upper left corner of the sky, a large area of reality is used to set off a small area of virtuality. The combination of reality and reality is strong in contrast, and the concept is novel. It is a masterpiece of its realistic painting style, and it is circulated in an orderly manner. The price of shooting hundreds of millions should be reasonable. It is also reasonable to take this opportunity to study him in depth. ("Several Key Points of Understanding Ren Bonian": Si Shunwei)

Ren Bonian Zhu Hua Sanduo soil Xi cold section

Ren Bonian's "Zhu Hua Sanduo Tu" fetched a high price of 654.38+67 million yuan in the spring auction of Xiling Publishing House, marking that Ren Bonian's works have finally entered the "100 million yuan era". Compared with Qi Baishi, the price of Ren Bonian's works is not high, and it has not reached its due position. Compared with Wu Changshuo, Ren Bonian's public awareness and academic achievements are not as high as they should be.

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