Female painting is one of the main genres of figure painting and is well received by the people of the city. The relatively prosperous and stable social environment in the middle of the Qing Dynasty created conditions for the prosperity of female painting, and Leng Ming was the representative painter of this period. Obviously different from literati painters such as "Yangzhou Eight Monsters" (calligraphers and painters in the middle of the Qing Dynasty), Leng Mei represented the aesthetic taste of the society in the city at that time, in addition to inheriting the aesthetic concept of female painting since the Tang and Song dynasties, it embodied the concept of female beauty under the ideology of science after the Ming and Qing dynasties, and emphasized the spiritual temperament of women's softness and gentleness, knowledge of books and etiquette, and elegance and elegance.
Qing Dynasty Leng Mei "Spring Girl Tired Reading Map"
"Spring Girl's Tired Reading" depicts a slender, beautiful-faced, green-shirted lady with her hair in a high bun and a black wrapping cloth with a bow at the mouth of the cloth and a pink bead gold hairpin inserted horizontally to fix it. She was on a crisp round stool with one leg, half-crouched on the table, holding a book in her right hand and a pensive in her left hand, as if immersed in the poetry story she had just read.
"Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" Part The woman holds her cheek
The main color of "Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" is gold and blue, not only pay attention to the layering of the same color color, the mineral color and plant color are cleverly used, so that the picture hue is rich and rich; and the color echo of different viewpoints, such as the color echo of the flower and the pink color of the woman's face and hand, the cyan of the vase and the woman's clothes, the bead flower on the hairpin and the golden color of the spoon, the bergamot plate echoes with the brick red on the incense box, the dark ochre color of the high table, the bamboo pipe, the table case echoes, the hanging painting, the book, the incense burner, the drum stool, The light ochre color of the walls echoes. Through these color techniques, the picture has a harmonious color, showing the artistic effect of the main color is vivid, the highlights are prominent, and the color rhyme is vivid.
"Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" partial high a few
"Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" part of the wall of the pipe
The woman in the painting is dressed in a long blue dress with a standing collar, two coiled buttons on the standing collar, and a red agate bead under the button. The standing collar shows the slender neck of the character, and also increases the dignified and cool temperament of the character. The neckline and cuffs are slightly darker in color, indigo, forming a harmonious color scale with the azure color of the main body of the skirt, and the cuffs are embroidered with a continuous bat pattern, which means many blessings. The long skirt is sparsely sprinkled with light blue orchids, and the lines formed by the folds on the skirt are like the slender leaves of orchids, holding up the orchids swaying in the breeze, making the whole dress full of movement, making the people in the clothes seem to exude the quiet elegance and fragrance of the empty valley orchid.
"Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" Part Of the pattern on the cuff
The single bun hairstyle was only used by married women in the Qing Dynasty, and unmarried women kept more double buns, implying that the heroine in the painting was a newly married bride. The women who are reading in ancient paintings often wear green clothes because in the Qing Dynasty literati concept, "qing" is a beautiful color associated with "reading".
"Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" part of the puppy under the woman's knee
In the Qing Dynasty's "Women's Reading" picture, it is more common to depict the reading activities of women in the picture, but it is not reflected in the content of the book. For example, another female painting of Leng Ming, "Banana Shade Reading Map", depicts a woman sitting on a bed, holding a book and reading carefully, the picture clearly shows the activities that the woman is reading, and there is no text elaboration on the book in the painting, indicating that the author's focus is not on the books, but on the women's reading activities. Chen Qingyuan's "Small Portrait of Li Xiangjun" in the Qing Dynasty, Gai Qi's "Poetic Intention of Yuanji", and Huang Shanshou's "Female Reading and Writing Diagram" all focus on the construction of the "women's reading" scene and portray the books as elegant activities.
Qing Dynasty Cold Piece "Banana Shade Reading Map" Partial
"Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" is a more unique category in the reading picture of the lady, that is, the painter shows the content of the book in the picture, so that the viewer can interpret the content of the book and integrate with the picture.
"Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" part of the blue book box
On the table in the picture, you can see a clear blue bookcase, and the book box is written with three words "Yuanshigui", from which it can be inferred that the book held by the woman in her hand is a certain volume of "Mingyuan Shigui". The woman holds the scroll in her hand, and the words "Midnight Song", "Midnight Jin Woman", "Fang is the work of incense", "Ye Rong does not dare to be" and other words can be seen on the scroll. The Song of the Midnight Night is part of the Collected Poems of Lefu compiled by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty. "Midnight, Jin woman also." Taste the song, sound through the sorrow, because there are four hours of music, called the son of the night four o'clock song. "The content is mostly a woman singing the joys and sorrows of love life, a total of forty-two songs. The poem embodied in the painting shows a woman's "reply" to her distant lover, and the words show the woman's thoughts and endless admiration for her lover. However, "Midnight Song" itself contains an atmosphere of grief, which sets off the theme of the picture itself, and the woman in the painting may not be tired of reading, but because the content of the book has caused her endless thoughts about her lover. In this painting, the book not only has its original meaning, but also adds an ideographic function, which is the carrier of the emotions of the characters in the painting.
Flowers and incense burners are placed in part of the "Spring Girl's Tired Reading Map"
In the painting, the elaborate depiction of the flowers of the moon and the freshly burned incense burner all set off the theme of the picture. "Since the emergence of the king, the golden incense is not." The golden furnace shows the woman's longing for her lover, and at the same time creates a quiet and elegant atmosphere, hinting at the woman's good identity, and also adding a faint feeling of lovesickness and sadness to the picture.
"Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" Part Background painting behind the woman
The inscription "Jiachen Winter Painting Cold Piece" of "Spring Girl Tired Reading Picture" should be a work of yongzheng ii (1724) according to the style, written in the background painting of the theme of "Fisherman". Leng Ming was enshrined in the painting academy through the three generations of emperors of Kang, Yong and Qian, and painted for the Yuanmingyuan for many years. However, he sat on a cold bench with the Yongzheng Emperor, who was expelled from the court by the Yongzheng Emperor and gradually became appreciated by the Qianlong Emperor again after a long period of wandering outside. The painter dropped the inscription on the painting in this painting, perhaps to express the painter's own lonely state of mind and emotions.