West Lake Smoke and Water
Old dreams over new dreams
Traveling south of the Yangtze River, my mind is beautiful and smooth. A spring of clouds, half a month of inkstone travel, and a few overlapping dreams. The moss marks of the old dream are already green, but the ink of the new dream is not yet dry.
If you don't go to the garden, how can you know what the spring scenery is like? The garden is picturesque, and the most beautiful thing is to walk among the paintings, paint and drink tea. An elegant and unrestrained place, where the moon comes and the wind comes since ancient times. Whether watching quietly or admiring alone, the green pines and ancient cypresses, the green bamboos and the bamboos, the flower-stepped small buildings, the leaky windows and the brocade corridors are all exquisite and ingenious. There is a situation for taking one step forward, and there is interest for taking a step back.
I send my pen and inkstone to Linquan, and my poems and paintings take advantage of my prime time. I only love the scenic spots in the south of the Yangtze River, which are mostly literary and elegant, with a mountain and forest atmosphere, but none of the golden powder atmosphere of the imperial city of Beijing. From Hangzhou to Suzhou, the spring breeze has become like an old friend, dreaming thousands of miles away. Through the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, you may be a passer-by at Fengqian Bridge, make friends with old friends at the scenic spots in the lakes and mountains, or walk in the small garden to create a unique secluded interest, or intersperse the couplets on plaques written by ancient sages, and the images are sublimated in waking dreams.
Spring Rain Jiangnan
Classical gardens and mountain forests within the city walls have always been the cultural theme of literati retreat since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. They are indeed spiritual oasis that embody their feelings and elegant aesthetics. They are carefully transformed into a lively and contented life habitat. The literati retreated to the mountains and the forest spirit Adapt yourself, find yourself, and observe the natural world. In the house where I live, I have a pillow with a forest and a spring. I play the piano and calligraphy, enjoying myself quietly. How much elegance and poetry are hidden in art, nothing can be more elegant and romantic than this. Famous gardens and scenic spots haunt my dreams from time to time. The scenery remains the same, and new dreams look back on old ones.
Wu Zhao sketched at Xiling Seal Society
I have a loose nature, I don't study for exams, I draw and live comfortably in a simple way. When you are out, you will be good at traveling, making friends with Sanyi, and exploring the hills and valleys to express your painting and poetic feelings.
In the mist, old dreams overlap new dreams in Linquan, which is loved by love; in ordinary times, clouds and smoke pass by in a hurry. Qingchuang shows his rank, only keeping a diary of sketching situations, expressing his despicable feelings directly, and sending my pen and inkstone to drift.
Xiling Seal Society, March 23, misty and rainy
The peach blossoms in the spring breeze break the bridge, and I am a guest on the lake again, covered with lake smoke. Nang Yan and Nan Chen came here last year, but they were closed for renovation before the grand event and could not see it, so they returned home sadly. I am afraid that I will become an old tourist and become an old tourist. This spring I became a guest of Hushan again. Ma Lin lived in Hangzhou. We traveled with him to Xiling in the misty rain and had a cup of tea in the teahouse on the lake. In a spontaneous travel, Hangzhou Ink Master Hou Ge made an appointment with old friends and new friends, and drank wine in the spring of West Lake, reminiscing about the past, seeking peace and quiet, and having a good time and understanding. On the second day, we visited Xiling again. At the most scenic spot of Gushan, we saw a gathering of famous people from the Xiling Seal Society. The historical sites seemed familiar, and we suddenly felt like clouds were growing on the mountain. When I woke up, I spread my pen and paper, and drank a spoonful of water from Wenquan. My dream was divided into a cloud of Xiling. I painted this to remember my dream.
Wu Zhao's Yunsheng on Xiling Mountain 34x(68+20)cm 2017 Hangzhou Sketching
Tiantai Guoqing Temple, March 25th, misty rain continued
Wu Zhao Guoqing Temple Sketching Office
A tile of moss, an inkstone cloud, a thousand-year-old plum blossom has become green. At the head of Fengqian Bridge, the water flows to the west, and it also serves as a passer-by in the Hanshi Pavilion. Xiake Ancient Road, with pines and flowing water, cauliflower at the head of the stream, the first harvest of the first rain. The pagoda and temple are solid, and the pictures are a little bit Zen.
Holding up an umbrella and worrying about it, I hurried away and came again…
Wu Zhao's Spring Clouds on the Rooftop 34x(68+12)cm 2017 Sketching at Guoqing Temple
Suzhou, March 26, beautiful spring breeze
I live on Linton Road in Gusu, and the spring breeze blows at Pingjiang Bridge several times. The most beautiful thing outside of wandering is meeting old friends in a foreign land. Stepping into the urban forest is like stepping back into a distant and exquisite dream.
How much smoke and water of Wumen, how many generations of Gusu chants, and how many dreams are in the woods and springs. Therefore, when you travel, you must have feelings, and then you will have interest. You will love the mountains and rivers, and your friends will be the trees and rocks.
Talking about dreams in dreams
Art Garden, March 27, blue sky and white clouds
The art garden is in a scholarly family, and the owner of the bathing gull courtyard quietly watches and enjoys it alone. The art garden is more beautiful than painting, you have been here before.
In the winding bridge pavilion and pond, fish and flowers are swimming, and the ink of Zhen Meng is still in retreat, and the ink of Zhen Heng is still left, and the fragrance of ink is still left.
The couplets are meaningful and poetic, sublimating the painting. One sigh and three chants, lingering endlessly. With the mood of the Song Dynasty poems, I used the shadows of flowers and trees, the shadows of clouds and water, the sound of wind and water, the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers. Wandering in the leisure garden seems like a dream. A spoonful of water dreams of thousands of ocean waves, a stone and a peak dream of thousands of mountains. Think of this piece of algae forest and spring.
Wu Zhao's Bathing Gull, 34x(69+15)cm 2017 Suzhou Art Garden Sketching
Huqiu, March 28, the wind is gentle and the clouds are clear
In the consciousness of traditional literati, mountains and waters without historical sites cannot be called landscapes in the true sense and are not suitable for inclusion in poetry and painting.
Tiger Hill
Huqiu Mountain is not high, but the hills and valleys on the left of the river are an example. Tiger Hill has a high cultural and historical level. It would be a pity not to visit Tiger Hill when visiting Suzhou. When I saw Tiger Hill, I felt like I had seen it before. We were familiar with the hills and valleys of Wumen in the past, and they are all covered in smoke and clouds, a dream from ancient times to the present.
Deep in the water and clouds, I paint quietly for a day, and my mental energy is gone, and I just feel drifting. The flowers are falling in the inkstone pool, and the cold fragrance is everywhere.
Wu Zhaohuqiu Qinglan 34x(68+15)cm 2017
Lion Grove, March 29, gentle breeze
Life is not as good as a spring dream.
I have no regrets if I can paint within a painting.
You've been here. It's as if I'm breathing in Ni Yunlin's noble pen and ink, watching quietly and admiring alone, just like playing with the pages of an album. Yi peak refers to the cypress, and the flowers and trees in the Zen room are deeply explored. Carved beams are easy to construct, but ancient trees are difficult to build. There are so many euphemisms that they cannot be explored in one go. The tour is not enough but the aftertaste is endless. I will support the ancient trees and cross the lake rocks next time.
Wu Zhaoji Fengzhibai 34x(69+31)cm 2017 Suzhou Lion Forest Sketching
Canglang Pavilion, March 30, misty rain and gentle breeze
Canglang Pavilion Misty Rain
Suddenly, I fell into a dreamland of Song poetry. Idle painting, speechless.
I have used the water of Canglang to inkstone. Unexpectedly, the umbrella has been floating, but the pear blossom is cold and the begonia is cold. The edge is deep and shallow, and there is light rain among the flowers. In the Zimei courtyard, the dream is fading.
Wu Zhao Canglang Pavilion sketch 34x(68+20)cm 2017
Master of the Nets Garden, the last day of March, cloudy and slightly sunny
Wu Zhao sketched in the Master of Nets Garden
What I love most is the fishing retreat in the Master of the Nets Garden. When I think about it in the Haopu room, I suddenly see a thousand oceans outside the dust. The spring courtyard of the palace is made of majestic wood and stone, and the whitewashed walls are decorated with natural paintings. The winding path leads to a secluded place, where you can sit and stay. As you move and change scenery, your eyes are picturesque. Waking up from the dream, a lonely shadow sings in the distance by the book window. Watching pine trees and reading paintings, the moon comes and the wind blows. The remaining things in spring in the palace are lingering and wandering around.
A tree is in bloom and I am leisurely writing on a hairspring in the courtyard. The smoke and waves blow away the dream without leaving a trace, and it is hard to see people when they are gone.
Wu Zhaodian Spring Painting 23x(69+15)cm 2017 Sketching in Master of the Nets Garden
Couple Garden, the first day of April, the sky is blue and the clouds are leisurely
Yan Yonghua and Shen Bingcheng were elegant in those days, and they can still remember the ancient trees, lakes and rocks in their garden.
The moss marks wake up the shadows of dreams, and the pavilion fish pecks the fallen flowers. The wine in the pavilion makes the old home drunk again.
Wu Zhao's Garden Sketching 23x(68+15)cm 2017
Hanbi Villa, April 2, Yun Piao
Wu Zhao reads poetry in the Liuyuan Garden
Staying in the garden, looking at the beauty, the sunshine is slightly drunk. The courtyard is a little deep, filled with cold inkstones and moss. After a farewell trip to Nanchen and back to Beijing, the beautiful lady was sleepy in spring at noon. Standing alone in Keting, I was left a little tipsy. I didn't know that behind me, there was a young man looking at paintings. The sunset is so light and quiet, the sounds of people and birds are silent, and I feel lonely and melancholy.
Wu Zhaohan's Bishan Room 32(98+35)cm 2017 Lingering Garden Sketching
Humble Administrator's Garden, April 3rd, sunny and sunny
Thirty-six Yuanyang Restaurant
The Humble Administrator's Garden can be admired in action, but it's too vast to be painted. In the shadows of dragons and snakes, flowers and trees are everywhere, and the figures in fragrant clothes are in a hurry.
The newlyweds are like old friends, sitting together in the pavilion under the clear breeze and beautiful sunshine. Old dreams overlap new dreams. Silk and bamboo wrap around the beams in the thirty-six mandarin duck pavilion. Quietly in the spring light all day in April, I was moved by the scenery, and forgot about the wind of Kun Opera in my ears. It's dark and late.
Wu Zhao's Thirty-Six Mandarin Ducks Pavilion 32x(98+35)cm 2017 Humble Administrator's Garden Sketching
Wufeng Garden, April 4th, gray sky
Here in Taohuawu, I visited Taibo Temple on the road. I sat alone in Wen Boren's Wufeng Mountain House, incubating a pot of Biluochun, facing Mingliu Yi Pavilion, polishing ink and brewing wine in silence. Like smoke in the arms, dreams follow the wind. In the past, people used to construct gardens like painting, where hardness is brought out by softness, and softness is used by hardness. The so-called rhyme is unrestrained and unrestrained, and the so-called fun becomes strange and poor. The natural pictures of the five stone peaks are majestic if covered by clouds. The yin and yang are combined, and the tenderness is written with strong brushwork. Liu Yi Pavilion has ancient trees and peach blossoms like clouds. I especially love the ancient trees and jade in gardens, which reflect many legends of elegance in ancient and modern times.
Wu Zhao Wufeng Garden Sketching 2017
Huanxiu Villa, April 5th, the early sun shines, draw for myself
Wuyue Qian's Jingu Garden is located here, and the Huanxiu Villa is unique in its rockery. It is interesting to pitch up, more precious than the natural level, and has great heights, depths, and levels. A rockery is as wonderful as a real mountain, and a real mountain is as strange as a rockery. Although Ge Yuliang's eyesight was ill, he could still see the valleys in his heart. Heaven and man were one, and the forest and spring were as if they were made in heaven. Between the lake stones and time, wherever there is no painting, everything becomes a wonderful scene. The water flows and the mountains are quiet, the buildings are empty when people are gone, the sunset is deep, and when I look back, there are still shadows of people in the daytime. It is so quiet that I feel like I can hear the lake rocks calling my name…
Wu Zhao Huanxiu Villa Sketching 2017
Living in Beijing, reading, studying and painting, the famous gardens and scenic spots always haunt my dreams.
The paintings are not as beautiful as the gardens, but you have been here.
On the last day of April 2017, Wu Zhaoyi was at Lihuashan House.
artist
Wu Zhao
Born in Xinyang in 1987, now lives in Beijing. Freelance artist. Paint classical landscapes, flowers, and classical figures. He was good at seal engraving and compiled and printed the collection "Wu Zhao Carved Stone". Reading, drawing and relaxing.
Record of painting activities
April 22, 2017, Beijing, Liulichang Youth Exhibition National Outstanding Young Artists Invitational Exhibition
April 9, 2017, Zhengzhou, Miaoqi Tongchen·Six Young Painters Exhibition Mark Collection
March 3, 2017, Beijing, Mo Mo Speechless – Young Artists Ink Painting Invitational Exhibition
January 22, 2017, Shangqiu, Xipi Art Museum Jingchuang Suihua Young Artists Joint Exhibition
January 12, 2017, Beijing, Wide Space Liuhe Gathering
January 4, 2017, Beijing, Sui Chao Qing Gong's Painting Exhibition of Contemporary Young Masters
December 24, 2016, Beijing, Su Ran, Li Leran and Wu Zhaosu Art Museum’s double solo exhibition
December 9, 2016, Qingdao, Chinese Ink Painting Young Artists Invitational Exhibition
October 29, 2016, Beijing, Himalaya Experimental Gallery Zero Degree Joint Exhibition
October 1, 2016, Beijing, Contemporary Art Alliance, Remember Nostalgia Joint Exhibition
August 21, 2016, Beijing, Su Art Museum, Han Brick Rubbings, Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition
June 18, 2016, Xinyang, Xinyang Painting and Calligraphy Academy
May 29, 2016, Beijing, Su Shi Times Joint Exhibition
January 23, 2016, Beijing, Yonghe Art Museum Art Critic Network Annual Exhibition
January 11, 2016, Beijing, Qianjitang dedicated six-person exhibition
January 10, 2016, Beijing, Youth Exhibition
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