Roselle Futu
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"Roselle Futu" is a painting by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the original "Luoshen Futu" volume is a colored silk book. A long, comic-like comic book of multiple storylines, now lost. The main ones that have been handed down are four facsimiles from the Song Dynasty, which are in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing (two pieces), the Liaoning Provincial Museum and the Freer Museum of Art in the United States. The two characters of the Palace Museum are basically similar, except that the scenery is complicated and simple.
The whole volume is divided into three parts, which depict the sincere and pure love story of Cao Zhi and Roselle in detail and layers. The character arrangement is dense and appropriate, naturally alternating, overlapping and exchanging in different time and space, and in the depiction of mountains and rivers, all show a kind of spatial beauty.
Among the extant ancient Chinese paintings, the Roselle Futu is considered to be the first painting adapted from a literary work.
《Step Chart》
"Step Map" is one of the famous works of the Tang Dynasty painter Yan Liben, one of the top ten famous paintings in China, and is now in the Palace Museum. The works are elegant and brilliant in color, smooth and rounded in lines, and rich in composition, which are representative works of Tang Dynasty painting. It has precious historical and artistic value.
In 640 (the fourteenth year of Zhenguan), the Tubo king Songzan Gampo admired the civilization of the Tang Dynasty and sent an emissary Lu Dongzan to Chang'an to recruit him. The "Step Map" depicts a scene when Lu Dongzan met Tang Taizong. The extant paintings are believed to be facsimiles of the Song Dynasty. It is stored in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Silk, colored, length 38.5 cm, width 129.6 cm. It is known as one of the "Top Ten Famous Paintings in China".
The "Step Map" is the work of the Tang Dynasty painter Yan Liben, which reflects the marriage of Princess Wencheng to Tibet by King Songzan Gampo of Tubo (present-day Tibet). It is a historical witness to the friendship between the Han and Tibetan brothers and nationalities.
"Tang Palace Lady Picture"
"Tang Palace Ladies" is a group of five Chinese paintings, the author is the Tang Dynasty Zhang Xuan, Zhou Fang, the painting depicts the Tang Dynasty women's sentient beings, especially the Tang Dynasty noble women's life mood, became the main feature of tang Dynasty female paintings, known as one of the top ten famous paintings in China.
The Tang Dynasty, as the most brilliant era of feudal society, was also the prosperous stage of female painting. The portrait of the ancient Chinese female beings, "the country fell into the city, sentimental and sickly".
Tang Dynasty female paintings are known for their dignified and gorgeous, graceful and elegant, the most outstanding representatives of which are Zhang Xuan's "Lady Yu Chun Tu", "Trick Painting" and Zhou Fang's "Lady of the Hairpin Flower", "Lady Of the Fan" and the late Tang Dynasty's "GongLe Tu".
《Five Bulls Diagram》
The Five Bulls Is a jute color painting on paper created by Han Di in the Tang Dynasty, also known as the Five Bulls of Tang Han, which is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The five cows in the "Five Bulls Diagram" are lined up from right to left, each with different shapes and postures. One bows down to eat grass and thorns rubs itches, one heads forward and slowly walks forward, one looks long and sounds, one looks back and licks the tongue, and one head stands. The whole picture has no background except for a small tree on the last right, so each cow can be divided into a separate chapter.
"Five Bulls" is one of the top ten famous paintings in China, one of the few authentic paper silk paintings passed down from the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the oldest Surviving Chinese painting on paper.
"Han Hee-jae's Night Feast"
"Han Xizai's Night Feast" is a painting by gu Hongzhong, a Southern Tang painter during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
"Han Xizai's Night Feast" depicts the scene of the official Han Xizai's family setting up a night banquet with songs and music. This painting depicts a complete Hanfu night banquet process, that is, five scenes of pipa playing, watching dances, resting between banquets, blowing, and sending off guests. The lines of the whole work are strong and smooth, the work is fine, and the composition is imaginative.
The shape of the work is accurate and subtle, the lines are fine and smooth, and the colors are brilliant and elegant. The use of pen and ink in different objects is full of changes, especially the color is more abundant and harmonious, and the plain makeup of the ladies is in stark contrast with the blue and black clothes of the male guests.
《A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains》
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a silk color painting created by Wang Ximeng of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is now in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The work is in the form of a long scroll, based on tradition, the picture is meticulous, the vast rivers and rivers, the undulating mountains constitute a wonderful landscape map of Jiangnan, the fishing village wild market, the water pavilion, the thatched grass hut, the water mill long bridge and other quiet scenery interspersed with fishing, boating, playing, catching up with the market and other moving scenes, the combination of dynamic and static is just right. In the portrayal of the characters in this work, it is extremely delicate and nuanced, the meaning is vivid, and the bird gently touches the pen and has the posture of spreading its wings and soaring.
The picture scroll of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" not only represents the mileage of the development of green landscapes; moreover, it collects the great achievements of ink landscapes since the Northern Song Dynasty, and puts the creators' emotions into creation. Although "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" belongs to the freehand works, there is no shortage of masterpieces of craftsmanship and beauty, showing that young painters have a rigorous attitude towards life. "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is one of the top ten famous paintings in China.
《Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty》
Qingming Upper River Map, one of the top ten famous paintings in China. It is a northern song dynasty custom painting, the only surviving fine work seen by the Northern Song dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan, which is a national treasure-level cultural relic, and is now stored in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The Qingming Upper River map is 24.8 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, and the silk is colored. In the form of a long scroll, the work adopts the scattered perspective composition method, vividly recording the urban appearance of The capital of the Northern Song Dynasty in The Twelfth Century of China (also known as Fenjing, now Kaifeng, Henan) and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time, which is a witness to the prosperity of the capital city of Tokyo during the Northern Song Dynasty and a portrayal of the economic situation of the Northern Song Dynasty.
This is unique in the history of Chinese and even world painting. In the five-meter-long scroll, a large number of colorful figures are painted, such as cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, cars, palanquins, large and small ships, houses, bridges, and city towers, which reflect the characteristics of Song Dynasty architecture. It has high historical and artistic value.
《Fuchun Mountain Residence Map》
Fuchun Mountain Jutu is an ink painting on paper created by the Yuan Dynasty painter Huang Gongwang in 1350, one of the top ten famous paintings in China. Huang Gongwang was painted by his disciple Zheng Fan (a useless teacher), changed hands several times, and was buried in the first two sections for "burning paintings and martyrdom". The first half of the volume: The Remaining Mountain Map, now in the Collection of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum; The Second Half: The Useless Division Volume, now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
With the Fuchun River in Zhejiang as the background, the picture is light and elegant, the arrangement of mountains and water is dense and appropriate, and the ink color is thick and light, dry and wet, which is very varied.
Fuchun Mountain Jutu is known as the "Orchid Pavilion in the Painting", which belongs to the national treasure level cultural relics.
《Spring Dawn of the Han Palace》
"Spring Dawn of the Han Palace" is a female painting on silk created by the Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying, which is now in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
"Spring Dawn of the Han Palace" vividly reproduces the life scenes of the palace women of the Han Dynasty with long scrolls of characters. Its pen is clear and elegant, and the trees, strange stones and gorgeous palaces are interspersed with cover, laying out a magnificent scene like a fairyland, and depicting the ability of the painting, reflecting the author's positive and humanistic thought of loving life, and also expressing his praise for the gorgeous and beautiful life of the court.
《Hundred Juntu》
"Hundred Juntu", now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, was composed by the Italian Lang Shining. In 1715, Lang Shining traveled to China as a missionary and was summoned to the palace by the Kangxi Emperor, who valued Western skills, and began a career of court painters for more than fifty years. "Hundred Juntu" is one of his masterpieces. The whole volume is rich in color and complex in composition, which is very interesting.
"Hundred Juntu" is one of the top ten famous paintings in China. This painting depicts hundreds of horses in different postures, grazing and wandering in the grassland. The horses lie or stand, play, or forage, free and relaxed, gathering and dispersing.
In terms of specific expression techniques, Lang Shining has played the commonly used in Western painting methods such as heavy and light, front and back virtual, front and back virtual, large and small before and after, so that the picture has produced an empty and far-reaching realm, and the grass, trees, landscapes, and characters are all realistic and exquisite.