Wang Fu: Born on May 3, 1362, in the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty (1362), a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The great painter of the early Ming Dynasty, the character Meng Duan, the number of YouShisheng, the nickname of Jiulongshanren. Good at landscape, especially fine dead wood bamboo stone, painting bamboo and absorbing the strengths of various famous artists since the Northern Song Dynasty, with a unique style of free swing, vertical and horizontal flowing, clear and strong, people call his ink bamboo is "the first of the Ming Dynasty". In the first year of Yongle (1403), he began to participate in the compilation of the Yongle Canon.
Surviving paintings include "Ink Bamboo Diagram", "Bamboo Crane Double Qing Diagram", "Xiaoxiang Autumn Intention", "Dead Wood Bamboo Stone Diagram", "Jiangshan Fishing Music Map", etc., and "Wang Sheren Poetry Collection" and so on.
Wang Fu was intelligent and studious at an early age, and at the age of 10 he was able to compose poetry, and at the age of 15, he was a disciple of Youxue Yi. He especially likes painting, and has studied under Fa Wuzhen, Wang Meng, Ni Zhan and other painters.
In the eleventh year (1378), Ming Hongwu was conscripted into Beijing, and soon returned to his hometown to live in seclusion. Twenty-three years after Hongwu (1390), he was tired of the imperial court's pursuit of Zuo Xiang Hu Weiyong's rebellion against the party, and was sent to Datong, Shanxi, to serve as a pawn for more than 10 years.
In the second year of Jianwen (1400), he returned to his hometown and lived in seclusion in Jiulong Mountain (i.e., Huishan), composing poems and paintings, and teaching his disciples.
In the first year of Yongle (1403), Wang Fu was recommended to Beijing for the Book of Kindness, where he served in Wenyuan Pavilion and participated in the compilation of the Yongle Canon. Yongle paid homage to the Zhongshushe people for ten years and was sent to Beijing to engage in the preparations for the relocation of the capital. In the eleventh and twelfth years of Yongle, he twice accompanied Ming Chengzu Zhu Di on his northern tour, during which he created the famous "Eight Views of Yanjing".
Wang Fu's landscape paintings combine Wang Mengyucang's style with Ni Zhan's distant artistic conception Wang Qi's "Mountain Pavilion Wenhui Map", which has a certain influence on the landscape paintings of the Wumen School. However, he refused to lightly paint landscape paintings, so posterity had a poem that "the crown of the person who gives up his demeanor is flowing, and the bottom of the pen is not easy to seek".
His painting bamboo combines the strengths of various famous artists since the Northern Song Dynasty, with a unique style of free swing, vertical and horizontal flowing, and clear and strong, and people call his ink bamboo "the first of the Ming Dynasty".
In the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), Wang Fu painted the "Bamboo Furnace Boiling Tea Diagram", and wang Da, a scholar who was a scholar, wrote an inscription for his preface, constituting the precious "Bamboo Furnace Picture Scroll". This picture scroll was deeply loved by the Qianlong Emperor, and during the southern tour, he used to taste the inscription of the "Bamboo Furnace Map" in huishan pin erquan water. After the scroll was accidentally destroyed, the Qianlong Emperor actually imitated Wang Fu's penmanship, supplemented the bamboo stove head map, and inscribed poems.
On February 6, 1416, the fourteenth year of Yongle (1416), Wang Fu died of illness at the Beijing pavilion at the age of 54.
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