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"Chiang Kai Mai Doshi, Sven Passing on the Ancient Style". 58 years ago, Deng Tuo donated more than 140 pieces (sets) of ancient paintings in his personal collection to the state free of charge, which were permanently collected by the National Art Museum of China, making these art treasures a public cultural wealth for future generations. This year coincided with the 110th anniversary of Deng Tuo's birth, the surging news learned that recently, the "Swen Chuan Ancient Style - Deng Tuo Donated Ancient Paintings Exhibition" curated and hosted by the National Art Museum of China met with the audience, the exhibition presented more than 70 pieces (sets) of fine paintings donated by Deng Tuo, including Su Shi of the Song Dynasty's "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Map" (biography), Deng Tuo said that he "left his ink in the thousand autumns, and the picture scroll Xiaoxiang bamboo stone qi".
Deng Tuo's painting collection is extremely rich, and his cultural relics donation has also achieved a good story.
Su Shi's "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Diagram" (biography) part
Exhibition site
Exhibition site
The exhibition selects more than 70 pieces (sets) of artistic works donated by Deng Tuo, focusing on the "bamboo stone" imagery in these donated works, divided into three sections: "Xiao xiao bamboo, lei lei stone", "moving vivid and vivid meaning", and "Chenghuai GuanDao sending a smooth swim", showing the artistic characteristics and inner spirit of traditional Chinese flower and bird painting and landscape painting. The exhibited works include Chen Rong's "Cloud Dragon Map", Tang Yin's "Overview of Lakes and Mountains", Qiu Ying's "Caizhi Map", Wang Yuanqi's "Imitation of Huang Gongwang Landscape", Shi Tao's "Landscape (Album Twelve Open)", Zheng Xie's "Lanzhu Tu" and a number of other heirloom treasures.
"Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Diagram", Song Su Shi (biography) Collection of the National Art Museum of China
One of the rarest treasures in the exhibition is Su Shi's "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Diagram" (biography), which is known as the treasure of the National Art Museum of China. Deng Tuo said that he "left his ink in the thousand autumns, and painted a picture of Xiaoxiang bamboo and stone". The work is 28 cm long and 105.6 cm wide, on silk. The work adopts a long scroll composition, showing the confluence of Xixiao and Xiang'er hydrates in Lingling County, Hunan Province, remotely connecting with the vast scenery of the giant immersion of Dongting, and the end of the volume is inscribed with the five characters of "Shi Wei Xin Lao Zuo".
The distant mountains and smoke and water in the painting, the wind and rain and thin bamboo have a long artistic conception, and it is a model of Chinese literati painting with bamboo stone to pin the spiritual feelings of the literati. On the lower left side of the picture there is the inscription of the Yuan Dynasty collector Yang Yuanxiang, and there are 26 Yuanming inscriptions at the end of the painting, totaling more than 3,000 words, starting from the year of Yuan Huizong Yuan Tongjia (1334) and ending in the year of Emperor Jiajing Xin You of the Ming Dynasty (1561).
Bamboo and stone are favored in Chinese painting themes for a long time. Su Shi also favored the theme of "bamboo stone", and "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Diagram" is one of the representative works of his painting art. Su Shi's paintings were very famous at that time, and there was a scene of "dead wood and bamboo stones, ten thousand gold competing for sale". However, most of the paintings made by Su Shi are found in the bibliography, and there are very few authentic works, and only the "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Diagram" now in the National Art Museum of China and the "Su Shi Dead Wood Bamboo Stone and Wen Tong Ink Bamboo Scroll" of the Shanghai Museum are circulated, but the authenticity is still controversial. In 2018, another "Dead Wood Strange Stone Map" that was rumored to be Su Shi appeared at Christie's Auction House, which also caused the industry to dispute its authenticity.
"Cloud Dragon Diagram" Southern Song Dynasty Chen Rong
Another important Song painting exhibit is from the Southern Song Dynasty painter Chen Rong's "Cloud Dragon Diagram". He paints a dragon in ink in the clouds, and the dragon's body is in an "S" shape in a circle, full of movement. The dragon's head is slightly raised, and its beard is flamboyant, and it has a proud and exuberant atmosphere. In addition, Tang Yin's "Overview of Lakes and Mountains" of the Ming Dynasty depicts the scenery of Taihu Lake's "Red Xia, Qingbi Boping", showing the uninhibited nature of "the first talent in Jiangnan" with a dashing and elegant pen and ink rhyme.
Ming Dynasty Tang Yin's "Overview of Lakes and Mountains"
Yu Hui, a researcher at the Palace Museum, mentioned that Deng Tuo's collection is mainly the works of the Ming and Qing dynasties, because his income is limited, but for the works of Song and Yuan painters, as long as he sees that they are good, he accepts them, and he is not picky, because Song and Yuan paintings are not often available, and there are not many opportunities after all. Whether there is a collection of Song and Yuan paintings is a comprehensive consideration of a collector's collection ability and collection level. It is precisely because Deng Tuo has collected several paintings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, plus other Ming and Qing dynasty masterpieces, that his collection is so eye-catching.
Song Anon. "Yueyang Loutu"
Deng Tuo's Collection of Song and Yuan Paintings includes the Northern Song Dynasty Su Shi's "Ink Bamboo Diagram" volume, the Southern Song Dynasty Chen Rong's "Ink Dragon", the Song Anon's "Yueyang Lou Tu", the Yuan Dynasty Zhang Yu's "Frost Ke XiuShi Tu", the Yuan Dynasty Huang Gongwang's "Landscape Map", the Yuan Dynasty Gao Kegong's "Yunshan Map" axis, the Yuan Dynasty's "Eagle and Rabbit Map" and so on. Yu Hui mentioned that some of Deng Tuo's collection of Song and Yuan paintings are very important, such as the Northern Song Dynasty Su Shi's "Ink bamboo map" volume, which Mr. Yang Renkai believes to be authentic, of course, there are some experts and scholars who have objections, and this discussion will continue in the future. Another example is the Southern Song Dynasty Chen Rong's "Ink Dragon", Chen Rong was a Native of Fujian, born in Putian, also served as a local official in Fujian, and also served as a master bookkeeper in guozijian, he was a jinshi of the Lizong Dynasty and an important painter in the late Southern Song Dynasty. Chen Rong's ink pen has not been passed down to the present, one from the Forbidden City, one from the National Art Museum of China, one from the Boston Museum, and one from the Guangdong Museum, which is also four or five pieces, which can be said to be extremely precious. The artistic level of Deng Tuozang's "Ink Dragon" is consistent with the "Ink Dragon" in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA, and both are authentic. The ink dragon must have hidden dew, pay attention to change, generally the head should be exposed, the body or a few claws should be hidden, and then the tail should be exposed, as if hidden in the clouds. Ancient painting clouds have to rely on ink to render, if the number of renderings is too much, the picture is prone to death, Chen Rong's "Ink Dragon" very well solves the contradiction between hiding and dew, the contradiction between movement and static, which is a very excellent work. Later generations painted ink dragons rarely and Chen Rong.
Deng Tuo
Mr. Deng Tuo was a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation, but also an outstanding journalist, political commentator, historian, poet and essayist. Deng Tuo's collection began during the war years. As a famous "pen holder", Deng Tuo wanted to collect and sort out all kinds of materials for writing, and his collection career began with the collection and collection of revolutionary historical documents and Chairman Mao's poems and handwriting. At first, his collection was for the needs of revolutionary work, and over time, the collection became his joie de vivre. In 1959, he also served as the head of the leading group for the establishment of the Museum of China History (now the National Museum of China), and more extensively came into contact with different types of historical relics and ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy, ancient paintings and calligraphy became the most important collection objects in his later years, coupled with the scattered and serious loss of ancient calligraphy and paintings in this period, combined with his own literary and artistic qualities, ancient calligraphy and painting became the most important collection object in his later years.
Qing Jinnong's "Two-color Plum Blossom Diagram"
Qing Zheng Xie "Lan Zhu Tu"
According to Yu Hui's research, Deng Tuo's collection can be summarized as follows: First of all, he likes the works of Fujian painters, and as long as he sees the works of Fujian painters, he will receive them. Because Deng Tuo is a Fujian native, he has a hometown complex. In his collection, Fujian painters include Chen Rong of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Bin of the Ming Dynasty, Shangguan Zhou and Huang Shen of the Qing Dynasty, and so on. Secondly, he has a relatively large collection of Ming Dynasty paintings. In the market at that time, the ratio of the number of Ming Dynasty paintings to Qing Dynasty paintings was about 1:10, and in his collection, the ratio of Ming Dynasty paintings to Qing Dynasty paintings was almost 4:6, which could reach such a ratio, indicating that when Deng Tuo encountered Ming and Qing paintings, he gave priority to the works of the Ming Dynasty. Third, Deng Tuo liked to collect the paintings of literati. He wants to communicate with intellectuals, of course, he will consider collecting more works of literati, the connotation of literati calligraphy and painting is much richer, and there are many places worth exploring. Like the paintings of the Wumen families, he was almost finished, and the eight monsters of Yangzhou received some, as well as Shi Tao and the Eight Greats.
Ming Shen Zhou"Xuancao Sunflower Picture Scroll"
Ming Wen Zhengming "Stacked Peak Flying Spring Map"
Qing Zhu Yun"Autumn Window Bamboo Rhyme Diagram"
Qing Hualun "Red and White Peony Medicine Map"
According to the scholar Sun Wei, Deng Tuo's collection is about 500 pieces, of which 70% are ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy. In 1964, Deng Tuo donated more than 140 pieces (sets) of fine works to the National Art Museum of China, such as Chen Rong's "Cloud Dragon Map" of the Song Dynasty, Gao Kegong's "Yunshan Map" of the Yuan Dynasty, Ming Ren Shen Zhou's "Xuancao Sunflower Picture Scroll", Tang Yin's "Overview of Lake and Mountain", Lü Ji's "Peony Jinji Map", Qiu Ying's "Caizhi Map", Qing Ren Yun Shouping's "Osmanthus Three Rabbits Map", etc., as well as important national treasures - Su Shi's "Xiaoxiang Bamboo Stone Map". In addition to these, the 24 works that Rong Baozhai had previously picked up in order to purchase Su Dongpo's "Xiaoxiang Bamboo stone map" were also once in Deng Tuo's collection.
Ming Lu Ji "Peony White Bird Diagram"
Ming Qiuying's "Caizhi Tu"
Wu Weishan, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, director of the National Art Museum of China, and vice chairman of the China Artists Association, believes that Deng Tuo's collections embody two distinctive characteristics: First, they are historic. From the upper two Song Dynasties to the late Qing Dynasty, it basically includes important genres and painters in the history of painting, constituting a relatively complete style genealogy and historical sequence; This is precisely the original intention of his intention as a historian to complete the "history of ancient Chinese painting". The second is cultural. The diverse flow of literati groups, from Su Dongpo, the advocate of literati painting, to the "Yuan Sijia", "Wumen School" and "Yangzhou School" constitutes a clue with literati painting as the main vein; Moreover, in the appreciation, special attention is paid to the character and the painting style, and the theme content is related to the cultural meaning. In a nutshell, Mr. Deng Tuo's collection is a typical literati scholar type, with both collection, appreciation and appreciation. On the one hand, with its profound accumulation of literature and history and calligraphy skills, it has collected and quoted and quoted scriptures; On the other hand, it also compares and analyzes the style characteristics, pen and ink language and even paper silk materials; In addition, he also exchanged views with the famous painters of that time, Such as Wu Zuoren, Huang Ji and Zhou Huaimin, and the experts Xie Zhiliu and Yang Renkai, and at the same time "discussed the present" while "appreciating the past", and paid much attention to the development of contemporary Chinese painting.
Qing Wang Yuanqi "Imitation of Huang Gongwang Landscape"
It is reported that since Deng Tuo's donation, the National Art Museum of China has made these ancient painting treasures play a huge cultural value. In 2012, on the occasion of deng Tuo's centenary of birth, after the works were fully restored by the National Art Museum of China, a special exhibition of "Deng Tuo's Donation of Ancient Chinese Painting Treasures" was held, and since then, relying on the "Collection Revitalization" exhibition series of the National Art Museum of China, the fine works of which have appeared in various exhibitions more than ten times, allowing more audiences to appreciate these art treasures and share a cultural feast.
Qing Shitao Shanshui (album 12 open)
Qing Shitao's "Jianggan Visiting Friends"
For the first time, the exhibition will also exhibit precious photos, documents, books, etc. provided by Deng Tuo's family, presenting Deng Tuo's elegant and interesting bones. The exhibition also reproduces in the form of images the preservation, research and publicity work done by the National Art Museum of China over the years for these donated works. The exhibition will last until July 15, when the National Art Museum of China (CAC) is a series of exhibitions entitled "Collection Revitalization".
(This article is based on the WeChat public account of the National Art Museum of China, and also refers to the article "Deng Tuo's Painting Collection" by Yu Hui, a researcher at the Palace Museum)
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