Huang Ding

Huang Ding ( 黄 鼎 , Huáng Dǐng ); personal name: Zungu ( 尊 古 , Zūngǔ ); Friendship names: Xianpu ( 闲 圃 , Xiánpǔ ), Duwangke ( 独 往 客 , Dúwǎngkè ); last name: Jinggou Laoren ( 净 垢 老人 , Jìnggòu Lǎorén ). (1660-1730). Huang Ding comes from Changshou ( 常熟 , Chángshóu ) in Jiangsu Province . Huang Ding was Vice Minister of Finance and a member of the Hanlin Academy .

He was a good landscape painter, copying old paintings in a living way. He especially excelled with copies of Wáng Méng . Later he took Wang Yuanqi ( 王 原 祁 , Wáng Yuánqí ) as a model and changed his style. His brushwork became powerful and his paintings free and natural.

HuangDing summer mountains

Huang Ding and the beginning of the Qing period

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty , Chinese painting was dominated by the "Four Wang" who limited themselves to copying traditional paintings. Other schools that were named "Four Little Wang" or "The Later Wang" could not improve the state of "Ten thousand people, the same face" or "All wear the same clothes and have no expression". The tradition of the master-student relationship and the passing on from father to son under the administration of the Qing, however, also stand for the compilation of the “Comments on Calligraphy and Painting from the Peiwen Studio” ( 佩 文 斋 书画 ) commissioned by the Kangxi Emperor谱 , Pèiwén zhāi shū huà pú ), completed in 1708 in 100 chapters with significant participation by Wang Yuanqi (the most important of the "Four Wang") and "Paintings to Celebrate the Imperial Birthday" ( 万寿 盛典 图 , Wànshòu shèngdiǎn tú ) a collection of Woodcut paintings, published in 1717 a. a. by Wang Yuanqi. Huang Ding received his importance as a painter for Chinese art critics through his change of style in the spirit of Wang Yuanqi.

Artistic development

Like Wang Yuanqi, Huang Ding studied the painters of the Yuan period, with a particular interest in Huang Gongwang ( 黄 公 望 , Huáng Gōngwàng ). He later followed Wang Shigu ( 王 石谷 , Wáng Shígǔ ) (1632─1717) and extended his research to the Song and Yuan painters as a whole. He studied the theory of the north-south tradition ( 南北 宗 , Nán-Běi-Zōng ). He then turned to the visible nature and strengthened the rich achievements of tradition in his works. It was said of him: “In his life he loved to wander. Wherever the venerable one went, however strange the circumstances, he definitely captured it in a painting. " On his wanderings through China, Huang Ding not only observed the living nature, he also sought contact with friends and a conversation about art. This enabled him to create vibrant new paintings.

Web links

Commons : Huang Ding  - Collection of Images

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1. ↑ Summer Mountains . commons.wikimedia.org. Retrieved April 26, 2014.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Huang is the family name here, Ding is the first name.