The Surging News has learned that the Suzhou Museum, which was previously closed due to the impact of the epidemic, will resume opening to the public from March 10. On the day of opening, Su Bo deliberately selected 23 female paintings from the Qing Dynasty and launched the "Jiangnan Jiali - Suzhou Museum Collection of Female Paintings Exhibition", in which the ladies in the paintings either dressed in the mirror, or watched the plum and enjoyed the moon, or played, or female red, or Cailing... The ornaments of lead and the state of pink, etc., show the flowing charm of Jiangnan boudoir in women's paintings since the Ming and Qing dynasties.
In addition, the Suzhou Museum's special exhibition "Jiangnan of the Yuan Dynasty" is still on display at the Su Bo Main Hall (No. 204, Northeast Street), exhibiting works including Zhao Mengfu, Huang Gongwang, Ni Zhan, Wu Zhen, Wang Meng and other calligraphy and painting masterpieces, which will be on display until March 22. The Subersi Pavilion exhibits 267 sets of ancient Roman artifacts from the British Museum's collection.
Suzhou Museum special exhibition "Jiangnan of the Yuan Dynasty" scene surging news picture
It is reported that in addition to the Suzhou Museum, the Suzhou Folk Customs Museum, the Suzhou Museum Ancient Books Library and the Guoyunlou Exhibition Hall will resume opening to the public at the same time under the premise of strictly implementing the provisions on epidemic prevention and control.
The old custom often said "flowers morning and moon night", the ancients took the second and eighth months of the lunar calendar as the spring and autumn, the february half or february 12 as the flower dynasty, and the august half as the moon and sunset. The Qing Jia Lu records that whenever the flower dynasty was in the flower dynasty, the women in Gusu City cut ribbons for flowers and inserted sideburns to meet the festival.
On the occasion of Yangchun March, suzhou museum specially selected 23 female paintings from the Qing Dynasty and launched the "Jiangnan Jiali - Suzhou Museum Collection of Female Paintings Exhibition". The composition of the exhibits is either taken from a corner of the garden, or in the boudoir, or in the land of herbs, or between the mountains and rivers; with the scenery of the bamboo banana stone, embellished with spring willows and plum blossoms; or to dress the mirror, or to watch the plum moon, or to play, or to be red, or to pick ling... The decoration of lead, the state of pink, and so on.
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the flowing charm of jiangnan boudoir in the paintings of ladies can also be seen here.
Qing Fang Wen Cai Lotus Chart Axis
Modern Li Hongliang Female Axis
In the history of ancient Chinese figure painting, as a specialized subject, shi nu has developed into an independent painting discipline at least in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Zhoufang and Zhang Xuan were specialized masters at that time, such as Zhou Fang, who had the purpose of "Zhou Family". After the Song Dynasty, female painting has become quite popular, and the Ming and Qing dynasties have developed to the most prosperous era.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" for the fifth time to write "Jinling Twelve Books", each of which is a picture, in order to allegorize the situation of his life, the picture in addition to the natural objects to indirectly suggest, most of them use the female as an image to directly express, you can see the general situation of its popularity.
Qing Hu Xiju Pick the lamp lady white-faced fan page
The female figures of this period not only pay attention to the details of the character depiction, the facial portrayal of cherry lips, and the depiction of the neck, shoulder shaving, willow waist, etc., but also devote themselves to the scene and space painting. For example, the garden scenery and Ming-style furniture in Hu Xijue's "White-faced Fan Page for Lady Picking Lamps", the realistic Qing Dynasty women's costumes and desk plugs in Qian Qi's "ShiNu Axis", etc., all record many details of the social life in Jiangnan in the Qing Dynasty in the form of images.
Qing Qian Qi Female Axis (Partial)
In terms of technique, ink freehand, white brush stroke, color and lightness are both available, which can be described as diverse in form and rich in content. "Paintings of Lady Without Style" typically depicts the common female movements and postures, with a white drawing and a color contrast, which is more stylized.
Qing No female paintings
The reproduction of classic historical stories with images is also a common theme of the Qing Dynasty female figures. Shen Heshou's "MeiFei Story Chart Axis" restores the story of MeiFei's fate to melt gold into the water divination in the "Book of Lang Huan". In the picture, Princess Mei is dignified, the palace people are busy, the golden phoenix is finely carved, and the tongue of fire in the copper furnace is beating.
Shen Heshou "Meifei Story Chart Axis"
The exhibition of Hu Xijue's "Ice Plate Recommended Lychee" is taken from the story of Yang Guifei's preference for lychees, and the background is a sea chart screen, which is a more popular style in the Tang Dynasty. It is reported that this exhibition is also an important component of the women's theme exhibition with the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, the Anhui Museum, the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, and the Huzhou Museum. The exhibition will run until June 8.
Qing Hu Xijue Ice plate recommended Litu axis
According to the surging news report, the Suzhou Museum's special exhibition "Jiangnan of the Yuan Dynasty" exhibition is being exhibited, which is divided into two parts: "Jiangnan Impression" and "Jiangnan Style", which are located in the calligraphy and painting hall and special exhibition hall of Su Bo Main Hall. While showing the style of Jiangnan in the Yuan Dynasty, it also tries to reveal the shaping and influence of the Yuan Dynasty on the culture of Jiangnan literati, so as to look back and explore the historical connotation of Jiangnan culture with the audience. The exhibition planning takes the impressions, customs, beliefs and elegant collections of Jiangnan as the context, selects calligraphy, paintings, utensils and treasures, reconstructs the timeless picture of Jiangnan, and reproduces the diverse and inclusive Style of the Yuan Dynasty. Among them, there are not only the Palace Museum, Liaoning Museum, Nanjing Museum and other museums, but also important Yuan Dynasty Jiangnan cultural relics collected by Shanghai Museum, Tianjin Museum, Suzhou Museum and so on.
The scene of Zhao Mengfu's "Drinking Horse Scroll" of the Yuan Dynasty
The exhibition also shows the part centered on the exchange activities of the literati, in addition to the "Cloud Making" copper transformation stone in the Collection of the Palace Museum, the National Library of China collects the Ming Dynasty rare book "Yushan Famous Places", which takes the Yushan scenic spots as the outline and compiles the inscriptions of the participants in the Yushan Yaji at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. The past has passed away at any time, but through these cultural relics and texts, it can be seen that the literati elegance and cultural inheritance in this land have continued from the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty and the JingYuan to the Ming Dynasty, and have continued in the praise and inheritance. While laying a solid academic foundation, in order to create a kind and interesting "eye-catching point" for the exhibition, a large number of visual elements of "Jiangnan in the Yuan Dynasty" are used in the formal design of the exhibition, and "immersive" is used to guide "empathy". Entering the exhibition area, the garden scenes such as the Lion Grove Zhenqu Pavilion are restored, depicting the life picture in the Garden Pavilion of the Yuan Dynasty; in the exhibition hall, the courtyard sketches with bamboo and stone stacked on top of each other, and the neat study furnishings seem to be the place where the Jiangnan literati play tea; the "Yushan YajiTu" and "Writing The Scripture for Tea Diagram" in the environmental background restore the affairs of the two Yuan people in the form of images.
The National Library of China collects the Ming Dynasty rare book "Jade Mountain Famous Places"
(This article is a comprehensive compilation of relevant materials from the Suzhou Museum and past reports by The Paper.) ）