"What do you think?" Shen Yu calmed down and asked.
Pei Yuqin smiled gently: "What I mean is, can you tell which famous artist this painting is from?"
Shen Yu turned off the LED flashlight on his mobile phone and gave a wry smile: "Where can I look? The reason why the anonymous paintings are called anonymous paintings is because they don't have the author's signature.
"We can't travel back in time and see who the original author is, so we can't tell at all.
"Sister Qin, you are in the auction house, so you naturally know that many unknown paintings have the word 'pass' after them, right?"
Pei Yuqin nodded and said nothing.
"Why do you have this inscription? It's a legend. It's rumored that it was painted by a famous artist, but we can't be 100% sure. There are more or less disputes, so many anonymous paintings are difficult for experts to determine."
Pei Yuqin blinked: "What if we look at the style of the work or the origin of the painting method?"
Shen Yu shook his head: "Except for the title of this painting, the seals are all from unknown people, and there is no clue at all.
"Visual inspection is not very accurate. After all, each person has his or her own opinion. What I think is good may not be true for you, and there are too many paintings that look fake and fake.
"For example, the four kings in the early Qing Dynasty were Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi and Wang Hui.
"All of them are old people, and their painting skills are quite high. They also love imitating antiques. In their middle and later years, they imitated the paintings of famous artists from the Song and Yuan Dynasties. In terms of painting skills alone, they are no longer inferior to the original artists.
"Even despite its shortcomings, there is already a trend where the blue is better than the blue. How do you tell this?
"Also, based on the painting style alone, can Ma Yuan and Ma Lin, Zhou Chen and Tang Yin be clearly distinguished? It's not clear either!
"Is it possible to distinguish clearly between the works of Zhao Zuo and Dong Qichang? It is also difficult.
"Can we date the generation?" Pei Yuqin kept asking.
Shen Yu sighed: "Dating? It's a bit difficult!"
"Are there many people in history who painted ichthyosaur paintings?"
"Of course, fish and dragon painting began in the Three Kingdoms period. Xu Miao, a famous official in the late Han Dynasty, was good at painting fish and dragons, and his painting skills were superb.
"In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was Wang Gong, who was known as the best calligrapher and painter in Jiangzuo. His paintings were rated as top-notch in the "Records of Famous Paintings in the Past Dynasties".
"In the late Tang Dynasty, there was Yuan Shi who was famous for painting fish, and in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Xu Xi, a commoner from Jiangnan, was good at painting algae and swimming fish.
"The most important thing is that after the Song Dynasty, famous fish painters emerged in large numbers.
"In the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were only thirty or forty people who could be named. This only refers to famous painters, and there were even more painters who were skilled but not well-known."
Pei Yuqin was stunned, "Doesn't this mean that it is difficult to identify?"
Shen Yu stood up and stretched: "That's how it is. Think about it, the unknown paintings are still anonymous until now. That only means that even the ancients couldn't identify them.
"If the ancients had identified it, it would no longer be an anonymous painting. How can we moderns identify it?"
Pei Yuqin glanced at Shen Yu with her beautiful eyes, and said with a playful smile: "Mr. Shen has the reputation of being a master of painting. He must have a unique secret for appreciating paintings. You are his only grandson and it is impossible that you are not good at it."< /p>
Shen Yu was slightly startled when he heard this, "I just said a name, and you found out my details? Wow, you are too scary, aren't you?"
Pei Yuqin smoothed her hair and smiled coquettishly: "I told the antique city management office about your height and appearance, and some people said it was you. After all, there are very few young people opening shops in the antique city, and some of them are more handsome than celebrities. There is only one you."
Shen Yu suddenly realized: "So that's it."
"Help people to the end, is it really impossible to identify the author of an unknown painting?" Pei Yuqin took Shen Yu's arm and shook it gently.
Shen Yu calmly pulled out his arm, "That's not necessarily true. This thing mainly depends on the appraiser's eyesight, reputation and status."
"I understand eyesight, but what does the appraiser's fame and status mean?" Pei Yuqin blinked her beautiful eyes and quietly observed Shen Yu's subtle expression.
"For example, "Travel in Xishan", "Xiaoxiang", "Longsu Suburban People", "Xiashan", "Sketch of Butterflies", etc. Because there is no author's stamp or signature on the paintings, they were all before the Ming Dynasty. It is classified into Anonymous Paintings.
"In the Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang identified four unknown paintings as "Traveling in Streams and Mountains", "Xiaoxiang Picture", "Longsu Suburban People" and "Xiashan Picture" as authentic works of Dong Yuan.
"He even dedicated the "Siyuantang" to collect these four ancient paintings. Because they all had the surname Dong, he even called Dong Yuan 'My Family Beiyuan'."
"The other three paintings are basically fine, but "Longsu Suburbs" is doubtful. Of course, this painting is indeed very likely to be Dong Yuan's original work, and the possibility is even as high as 95%.
"But does it have to be Dong Yuan's authentic work? Not necessarily.
"The great collector Zhan Jingfeng said in "Dongtu Xuanlanbian" that this picture has no inscription and no inscription by the previous sages.
"Qianlong also said that no one could authenticate this painting before the Yuan Dynasty. It was only after Dong Qichang came here that it was authenticated by Dong Yuan.
"Unlike "The Picture of Xiaoxiang", where the name of the painting can be found in Xuanhe's painting book, "The Picture of Longsu Suburban People" is not recorded at all in Xuanhe's painting book.
"Similarly, "Sketch of a Butterfly" is of a very high level and can be said to be a masterpiece among flower and bird paintings. It has been collected by many celebrities before, including Jia Sidao of the Southern Song Dynasty.
"However, most collectors use seals, but Dong Qichang wrote a postscript on the painting: 'Zhao Chang once entered the imperial palace for sketching, and Feng Haisu's postscript was frequently seen in the Yuan Dynasty when he gave the eldest princess a gift. This is one of them.'
"From then on, this picture was made by Zhao Chang, and later generations will continue to use this saying.
"But it wasn't painted by Zhao Chang? Not necessarily.
"Mr. Xu, a master of calligraphy and painting appraisal, once said that "Sketch of a Butterfly" was not written by Zhao Chang, but looked very much like Xu Xi, but it was undoubtedly a painting of the Northern Song Dynasty.
"There is also a kind of anonymous painting that does not have a famous title, but has inscriptions and postscripts by celebrities of the same era. This kind of anonymous painting is more credible, such as Li Gonglin's "Five Horses".
"This picture shows five famous horses in the Tiansi Prison in the early years of Yuanyou in the Song Dynasty. Each horse has a person holding a bridle and leading it. The horses' names in order are "Fengtou Cong", "Jinshan Cong", and "Haotou Chi"
, "Zhaoyebai", "Manchuanhua".
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"Because there is no money, it stands to reason that it is not necessarily Li Gonglin's work.
"But after the horse, there is the name of the horse signed by Huang Tingjian, a famous writer and great calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, including the place of origin, age, etc., and there is an inscription and postscript written by Huang Tingjian at the end of the volume.
"He wrote these four words: Li Bo Shi Zuo.
"Li Gonglin was named Bo Shi. In this way, even though this painting has no title, it is equivalent to the title of Li Gonglin's own book.
"Because Huang Tingjian is far more famous than Li Gonglin.
"He is one of the Four Great Scholars of the Song Dynasty, a bachelor of Longtuge, a literary master of his generation, and one of the protagonists of the Twenty-Four Filial Piety. His status is not the slightest bit higher than that of Li Gonglin. He said that "Five Horses" is Li Gonglin's authentic work, that is.
"There is no controversy and no problem, so this painting has become the best example of the horse figure, and later generations praised it as 'the number one painting in the Song Dynasty'.
"Do you understand what I said?" Shen Yu spoke hundreds of words. Now his mouth was slightly thirsty, so he picked up the teacup and drank it all.
Pei Yuqin thought for a while before asking: "You mean, unless you find a highly respected appraiser to appraise this painting, no one will know who painted this painting."
"Hey..."
Shen Yu sighed heavily: "On the contrary, I mean it is impossible to find the author of the anonymous painting now.
"Some people question Dong Qichang's status in history, let alone an ordinary appraiser? Why should you worry about it? If you can buy it, buy it. If you can't, forget it.
"And even celebrity appraisals of anonymous paintings have been overturned.
"For example, "Wen Yuan Tu" was identified by Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, as a work by Han Huang in the Tang Dynasty. The picture also has the inscriptions "Han Huang Wen Yuan Tu, Dinghai Imperial Notes" and "The World is a Person" inscribed by Song Huizong.
"But according to textual research, this picture is half of the "Liulitang Figures" by Zhou Wenju of the Five Dynasties. It tells the scene of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Changling gathering with his poetry friends Li Bai, Gao Shi and others in the glass hall of his residence.
"Again, let's not say it's not famous. Even if it's famous, it's difficult to identify unknown paintings, so don't waste your time.
"Besides, you're not buying it for yourself, it's just for work. As an employee, you are definitely worthy of this job."
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