明代“吴门画派”开山祖沈周,对中国绘画做出的重大贡献,不在山水画而在水墨写意花鸟画。他一变传统院体奇花怪石、珍禽异兽,多是庭园、大自然中常见的动植物,深入观察,进行写生与创作,扩大了文人花鸟画题材,前无古人。他首先用山水画点线结合及浅绛手法来画花鸟,形成新的程式,格调素雅清逸。不拘于形似,贵在意到情适,创造了“似与不似之间”的艺术形象。沈周的水墨写意花鸟画不但与宋元明初工笔花鸟相颉颃,且一跃而居于花鸟画坛的统治地位,推动着明清文人写意花鸟画发展,至今仍有着蓬勃的生命力。 Ming Dynasty “Wu School of Painting ” opened the ancestor Shen Zhou, made a significant contribution to Chinese painting, not in the landscape and freehand brushwork in ink and wash. He changed the traditional courtyard strange rocks, rare birds and animals, mostly gardens, nature, common animals and plants, in-depth observation, painting and creation, expanding the literati bird painting theme, unprecedented. He first painted the birds and birds with the combination of landscape painting lines and light purple, forming a new program, style elegant elegant. Regardless of the shape, you are interested in the situation, creating a “like and not like ” artistic image. Shen Zhou’s ink and wash paintings and calligraphy are not only antagonistic to the calligraphic birds and flowers of the Song, Yuanming and Ming dynasties, but also jumped to the dominance of flowers and birds painting circles to promote the development of the freehand bird and flower paintings of literati in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They still have vitality.