Imaginary Pole Zi Press: A well-trained warrior on a weekday must be fearless in the face of danger on the battlefield, just like the self-disciplined Yusuf is not confused when he faces beauty.
The window of the color building, the long corridor haunting, a man and a woman, the involvement is not clear, the woman takes the initiative to throw her arms and hugs, but the man only wants to grab the door and flee - this miniature painting painted by Bai Zade, the founder of the Tabriz school, is full of ambiguous taste...
▲ Bai Zade,Linyan Is Not Confused, 1488
Collection of the National Library of Cairo, Egypt
From the analysis of the way the man's flame-shaped light back and white veil cover are displayed in the painting, it is not difficult to identify that he is a prophet who is admired by Muslims. This restless man, known as Yusuf in the Quran, is actually Joseph of the Christian Bible, and his life is about the same as Joseph's. According to the Quran, the young Yusuf was framed by ten elder brothers for jealousy and later sold into slavery with the Egyptian minister Gottufer. When the hostess, Shu Liha, saw that Yusufu was handsome and intelligent, she couldn't help but shake her heart, so she hollowed out her mind to seduce the young male servant. One day, she dressed herself up and summoned Yusuf to listen to her. Yusuf did not expect that when he pushed open the door of the hostess's bedroom, he saw that it was the jade body of Zhili Ha zhengyu with heavy makeup and breasts exposed on the gum bed. The well-behaved Yusuf turned around and was about to exit the inner chamber, but was grabbed by Shuriha and wanted a moment of pleasure.
▲ Use the lines in Guo Degang's "Wife and Child" to describe Yusuf's state of mind at this time:
"At your age, at my age, the two skins of a human mouth, anyway, make people die under the roots of their tongues,
Some will not listen, jump into the Yellow River to wash clearly, I have to take care of the whole (a slap on the face) this ah! ”
When La-La was pulling, just as the host, Gottufer, passed by here, Zhiliha was anxious to get rid of the interference, so he slandered Yusuf for his misdeeds with her. The man understood that Yusuf had always been a good character, and for a while he was suspicious, so he asked a wise man to help him analyze the truth and falsity. The wise man said: "It is not difficult to judge who is who is wrong, and it depends on the situation in which Yusuf's clothes are torn: if the clothes are torn from the front, it indicates that the man is violent, and the woman resists, and will scratch the man's front placket; if the clothes are torn from the back, it is the woman who seduces and seduces, the man is eager to escape and flee, the woman does not rely, and in a hurry, she will grab the man's back to keep it." Gottufer listened, and when he saw that Yusuf's back was indeed pulled by Shuriha, it was not clear whether this so-called adulterous farce was right or wrong.
▲ Baizad, Tamerlane vs. Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, 1515
Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Although there are only two characters in "Linyan Is Not Confused", the master of miniature painting Bai Zade's control of the picture layout and character relationship is undoubtedly ingenious. In fact, whether a painting is sparse or dense, in the hands of Bai Zade, it can show an appreciation effect of sparse and not absurd, dense and breathable. For example, the miniature painting of the ancient battlefield in the picture above, Bai Zade, adopts the traditional war composition method: many people and horses move around in a cramped space, showing the rapid changes and intricacies of war. In this seemingly disordered but orderly picture, Bai Zade's color setting skills are also first-class, don't look at the contrast between red, green, blue, yellow, black and white, in fact, their distribution follows the internal rhythm and fluidity, so that the tonal contrast is not too intense.
▲ Benzad, Raid on the Knight's Fort of St. John of Smyrna, 1480s
Collection of the Hopkins University Library in Baltimore, USA
▲ Bai Zade, The Battle of the Wuhu River, 1480s
A well-trained warrior on a weekday must be fearless in the face of danger on the battlefield, just as the self-disciplined Yusuf is not confused when he faces beauty. Whether it is the ambiguity of flirting or the aesthetics of violence in war, It is displayed just right in Benzade's pen. The peculiar composition, the brilliant color, gives the essence of ostentatious sexuality and violence a restrained aesthetic self-discipline. From the heart to do not exceed the rules - it is the highest state that the painter pursues all his life.