Almighty Appraiser

Chapter 128 Four Kings and Four Monks
The main purpose of rushing to the Hyatt Palace for the appointment is to absorb the simple aura of the authentic ancient paintings. Otherwise, Shen Yunfeng would not come to meet Lin Hongzhen even before the treasure appraising competition, so after receiving Lin Hongzhen's hand After taking a sip of the drink, the man who came over asked directly: "Boss Lin, where is the ancient painting from the early Qing Dynasty you mentioned, show it to me."

Lin Hongzhen sat on the sofa, and seemed to want to procrastinate for a while, to persuade Shen Yunfeng to drink a few more glasses of wine before saying some polite words, but what he didn't expect was that Lei Jinxin who was sitting beside him spoke.

"Oh, there is such a thing. That's great. Boss Lin, since you brought the ancient paintings here, stop nagging and take them out quickly so that even a rough guy like me can open his eyes."

Lei Jinxin opened his mouth, and Lin Hongzhen couldn't refuse anymore. He sighed secretly, but said "yes" briskly, nodded with a smile, and motioned Lin Xiang to take the ancient painting from the brocade box he brought over. come out.

Shen Yunfeng and Lei Jinxin looked towards where Lin Xiang was sitting, only to find a brocade box about half a meter long leaning against the armrest of the sofa against the wall.

"If I had known that the box contained ancient paintings, I would have opened it myself and viewed it." Lei Jinxin said with a smile.

Lin Hongzhen just smiled lightly and didn't speak.

At this time, Lin Xiang had already taken out the ancient painting. Because the marble coffee table was full of wine, Zhang Qiyue stood up, grabbed one end of the ancient painting, and together with Lin Xiang, slowly unfolded the ancient painting.

The moment he saw the ancient painting, Shen Yunfeng felt a strong sense of excitement in his body.

This is the feeling that the ancient books gave back to his body.

Lei Jinxin laughed loudly, stood up, and eagerly went over to look at the ancient paintings.

"Master Shen, condescend to move forward and appraise for my collection." Lin Hongzhen sat firmly on the ground, smiled and cupped his hands at Shen Yunfeng.

Shen Yunfeng didn't refuse, he took out the new white gloves he had prepared in his pocket and put them on, reached out and touched the ancient painting lightly, pretending to appreciate it seriously.

Lin Hongzhen, Lin Xiang's father and son, Zhang Qiyue, and Lei Jinxin couldn't have imagined that the moment Shen Yunfeng raised his finger and put it on the ancient painting, the ancient aura accumulated on the ancient painting for hundreds of years was completely absorbed by the ancient books in Shen Yunfeng's body. sucked away.

Shen Yunfeng's face remained unchanged, he stared at the ancient painting in detail, letting a strong tingling comfort travel through his body.

He vaguely felt that the ancient books in his mind seemed to reflect the meaning of that string of strange symbols again.

Naturally, after absorbing the ancient aura of the ancient paintings, the ancient books also gave Shen Yunfeng the source and current value of the ancient paintings in a "five and ten" way.

After watching it with his hands behind his back for less than ten minutes, Shen Yunfeng turned around and sat back on the sofa, stuffing his white gloves back into his trouser pockets.

Lei Jinxin reads more carefully than Shen Yunfeng. In fact, he doesn't understand these things at all, but now that he has money, he has begun to imitate some people's arty, otherwise, with his personality, he would disdain to talk to Lin Hongzhen. Dealing with such an antique shop owner.

Seeing Shen Yunfeng sitting on the sofa, Lei Jinxin turned his eyes away from the ancient painting, looked at Shen Yunfeng, and began to pay attention to what Shen Yunfeng said about his appraisal results.

Lin Hongzhen and Zhang Qiyue knew the source of the ancient painting for a long time, but they still looked at Shen Yunfeng with a serious attitude.

Lin Xiang put away the ancient paintings and put them back in the brocade box, and tactfully turned down the sound in the private room.

"In the Qing Dynasty, there were four famous landscape painters, the Four Kings and the Four Monks." Shen Yunfeng glanced at Lin Hongzhen and said with a smile, "The so-called 'Four Kings' refer to Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Hui and Wang Yuanqi respectively. They were governed by the Qing royal family. Supported, is the orthodox school in the painting circle that was appreciated by the government and the public in the early Qing Dynasty."

Lin Hongzhen and Zhang Qiyue nodded, expressing their agreement with what Shen Yunfeng said.

Lei Jinxin didn't know why, but when he saw Lin and Zhang's movements from the corner of his eye, he imitated them and nodded happily.

As for Lin Xiang, after taking the ancient painting back into the brocade box, he took out his mobile phone and started contacting a group of drinking buddies, and made an appointment where to go at night without getting drunk or returning.

"The Four Kings emphasized abiding by the brush and ink techniques of masters of the past dynasties. Most of their works imitated a certain brushwork method, and the painting style was basically rigid. Although there were occasional portrait landscape paintings, the brushwork was still inscribed with a certain style or a certain style of brushwork. This shows that I am a master of orthodox masters."

"So, this painting should not be the work of the Four Kings."

"As for the 'four monks', it refers to Jian Jiang, Kun Can, Bada, and Shi Tao. Among them, Bada became a monk successively, but later became unable to continue to be a monk because of participating in political activities, so he changed to Taoism, so there are three monks plus one. Said, also known as the three and a half monks by later generations."

Shen Yunfeng made a thoughtful expression, frowned and thought for a while, and then he paused for more than ten seconds, and then continued: "This ancient painting I got from Boss Lin, is innovative in both brushwork and ink. Not sticking to the ancients, there are shadows of the four monks."

Lin Hongzhen didn't speak, but looked at Shen Yunfeng fixedly, waiting patiently for him to tell the final appraisal result.

At this time, Zhang Qiyue couldn't bear it anymore, and interjected: "The 'four monks' mentioned by Master Shen are all good at landscape painting, and they also emphasize direct expression of their hearts in their creations, and are opposed to imitating the past. According to Master Shen's opinion just now, the painting If the painting is authentic, it should be the posthumous work of the 'Four Monks' in the early Qing Dynasty."

He glanced at Lin Hongzhen, smiled faintly, looked at Shen Yunfeng again, and said, "But I don't know which one of the 'Four Monks' is the masterpiece."

"In the Qing Dynasty, there were not many famous landscape painters. Now that the 'Four Kings' have been ruled out first, it is easy to judge the rest." Shen Yunfeng said with a smile, "As Boss Zhang said just now, the 'Four Monks' They are all good at landscape painting, and they are not constrained by the old art in art. They have provided a reference for the creation of landscape paintings of later generations. The freehand brushwork of flowers and birds by Bada Shanren has influenced generations of flower and bird painters, and they are still playing an important role today. Great inspiration and reference."

"I didn't notice any birds in the painting just now." Lei Jinxin said with a smile.

"Boss Lei is right, so the paintings are not from Bada Shanren, because the ones they have handed down to the world are all genuine freehand flowers and birds." Shen Yunfeng smiled and nodded towards Lei Jinxin.

Lei Jinxin returned a thankful smile.

Among several antique experts, Lei Jinxin knew that he was a layman, so Lei Jinxin was very happy to get Shen Yunfeng's public approval.

Humans are all like this, no matter how big the wrist is, they all like to listen to comfortable words.

"Kun is a man who likes to rub with dry brushes and paint with light ink, with light ochre as the background in between. The layout is complicated, dark and dense, and the artistic conception is deep."

Shen Yunfeng continued, "Jianjiang's paintings are based on the styles of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, especially Ni Zan. The composition is simple, with strange peaks standing on walls and strange pines hanging upside down. "

Having said that, Shen Yunfeng paused for a moment, and cast a strange smile at Lin Hongzhen.

(End of this chapter)