The surging news learned that the second phase of the special exhibition "Living in Seclusion: Seclusion and Social Travel in Chinese Painting" launched by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is being exhibited to the outside world, presenting more than 120 pieces of calligraphy and painting artifacts from the 11th century to the 21st century, exploring how Chinese literati express themselves with art. "Seclusion" or "socializing"? The exhibition attempts to explore this choice, reflecting on the reasons and ways people seek refuge or communicate with others.
Ming Wen Zheng Ming Cong Gui Zhai Tu Volume (Partial)
It has been learned that in the second phase of the exhibition, there are not only the "Autumn Forest Wild Xingtu" by Ni Zhan in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the classic "Louju Tu" painted by Wen Zhengming, the leader of the Wumen painting circle in the Ming Dynasty, for the dreams of retired friends; there are also volumes of "Jiangshan Fishing Music Map" by Ni Zhan's fellow villager and early Ming painter Wang Qi; two fine calligraphy and painting albums by Gong Xian, the head of the "Eight Houses of Jinling" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties; and the scrolls of "The Poetry of the Lonely Pavilion at Sunset" by the late Ming dynasty scholar Wang Duo, who expressed a strange and strange style of writing.
Exhibition materials related to the official website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
The exhibition will also feature some important private collections, including Lu Zhi's Yuan Ye Yan Ji (元夜燕集) in the twenty-sixth year of Ming Jiajing (1547), a long volume that has never been exhibited. In the Shanghai Museum, there is also a volume of Lu Zhi's 1547 "First Night Feast and Drinking Map", which was once the old collection of Wu Hufan.
For more than 2,000 years, "seclusion" and "social travel" have always been the center of life and thinking of Chinese artists and scholars–retreating from society is generally considered to be the ideal realm of cultivating the mind and transcending the troubles of the world, but at the same time, meeting with friends who fit is also an important life experience that has been talked about by generations. The choice of "solitude" or "rendezvous" is a lifelong concern of scholars and artists, while Chinese art presents many figures who combine the two, some of which blend the two ways of dealing with the world through complex or unexpected ways.
Stone viewing works on display
Looking at these works today, we can glimpse from them how people find space in the world and how they try to bridge the gap between themselves and others. Especially after 2020 and 2021, the two years that have separated the human body more and more, but connected us in an unprecedented way, the exhibition's exploration of ancient Chinese seclusion and communication will trigger meditation on the rupture and bridging of human connections in the current era.
Yuan Wang Mian Mo Mei Tu Axis
Ming Wen Zheng Ming Zhi Zhangren Wu Yu Shu Booklet Page
Qing Shitao Landscape Character Figure 冊頁
Qing Shitao Landscape Figures Page (Partial)
Ming Wen Zheng Ming Cong Gui Zhai Tu Volume
This volume was written by Wen Zhengming to congratulate fellow villager Zheng Zichong on his examination for the Middle Age. In ancient times, the scientific expedition was held when the August laurel flowers were in full bloom, so people also called the examination and the first "folding laurel". In the painting, Zi Chongzi is depicted in the family garden, leaning against the wall of the study, as if he is looking intently at the scenery. Through the window, you can also see a cabinet full of scrolls, showing his appreciation of art.
Ming Dong Qichang Jing Qiao Hidden Figure Volume
Dong Qichang painted this volume for his friend Wu Zhengzhi in 1619, and the two passed the scientific expedition together in 1589, and in the following decades, they paid close attention to each other. In 1611, Wu planned to retire after being demoted repeatedly, so Dong Qichang painted this work for him.
Ming Tang Yin Reed Drunken Fishing Chart Axis
The author of this painting is self-titled: "Insert a reed to tie a stern, and be on the top of the penny on the third month." The old fisherman was drunk and couldn't wake up, and got up to frost and print the shadow of his clothes. ”
Ming Wu Bin Cuibi Danfeng fan
Ming Wu Bin Cuibi Danfeng Fan (Partial)
"With the wind and green wall, the lonely clouds are thin, and the back of the sun dan maple is thick." The inscription poem in the painting comes from the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's "Official Pavilion of Xiangji Temple in Fucheng County". In the fan, a lonely figure is standing on a low cliff with a cane looking at the beauty of the distant mountains, and human beings and nature meet, this picture does not interpret the scene in Du Shi.'
Ming Wang Fu Jiangshan Yule Tu Volume
The landscape of the early Ming dynasty painter Wang Fu was deeply influenced by the painters of the late Yuan Dynasty, especially Wang Meng and Ni Zhan, and this volume of "Jiangshan Yule Tu" is a typical masterpiece. The scroll depicts the life of the fisherman and the hermit, the dry rock bank of the river, the sparse forest, the fishing house water pavilion from the fall in the Danfeng; the shore stone shelter, the number of boats on the water surface, the fisherman on the boat or the weeping lun, or the horizontal flute Mao foot, or the slap and song; inside the house, there are hermits to promote knee-to-knee drinking, or fishing by the fence, or stalking, painting Canggu, with a strong pen, light and elegant.
It is reported that the second phase of the exhibition will last until August 14, 2022.
Attached: Catalogue of other key calligraphy and painting exhibits
Ming Anon. Old Legend Li Gonglin White Lotus Society Picture Volume
Ming Bian Wenyu 谿山秋霭图 Scroll
Ming Anon. Koto crane diagram Axis
Yuan Anon. Kanmei diagram axis
Ming Zhang Lu Guan Shu Tu Axis
Ming Chen Qi MaoShu Qingquan Figure Fan
Ming Zhou Wenjing Yu Hidden Chart Axis
Ming Ye Guang Yue under the fisherman figure Axis
Ming/Qing Anon. Liu Songnian Pseudo-style Landscape Figure
Ming/Qing Xiang Shengmu Autumn Scenery Album
Qing Gong Xian Self-titled Landscape Sixteen Open Book
Qing Gongxian Landscape Atlas
Ming Wen Zheng Ming To The Book of Wu Yu
Ming Wang's Pet Book to the Nancun Codex Album
Ming Wen Jia Xing Shu to Yao ShuZha Album
Ming Wang Jun Xingshu to Guan Fang Bo Book Album
Ming Wang Sui Deng Xing Cursive Letters Album
Ming Song Jue Xing Letters Album
Ming Jiao Zhen Xing Cursive Booklet
Ming/Qing Wang Duo Line Cursive Sun Twilight Pavilion Five Laws Poem Axis
Qing Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) Landscape Figure Album
Qing YouYin Chang Xiao Xuan Tu Volume
Ming Chen Chun Xingcao heavy nine poems Fan surface
Ming/Qing Qi Qi Jia Landscape Map
Ming/Qing Shen Hao Fisherman Father Figure Fan
Qing Dynasty Famous Masters Calligraphy and Painting Book
Check the Seven Laws of poetry axis of the Book of Ascension
Qing Luo Ping Shion Garden Drinking Chart Axis
Qing Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) Seven Laws and Five Pieces folding fan
Qing Wu Shan Tao Landscape Map Fan
Qing Shuhao Appreciate the lotus map Tuan Fan
Qing Wu Tao Garden Atlas Album
Qing Shi Lin Mountain Villa Album
Qing Ye Xin Xue Tu Album
(This article is a comprehensive compilation from the official website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, exhibition and other related materials.) ）