(Xiyue Descending Spirit Diagram Ink on Silk 26.5cmx513.7cm Collection of the Forbidden City of Beijing) (Xiyue Descending Spirit Diagram Ink on Silk 26.5cmx513.7cm Collection of the Forbidden City of Beijing)
The "Xiyue Descending Spirit Map" depicts the scene of the legendary "Emperor Huashan of Xiyue" on a hunting trip, with a total of more than 80 characters, cars and horses intersecting, and eagles and dogs hearing each other. Different from the traditional scroll painting from right to left reading order, the scene can be divided into two groups, and the team of honor guards go opposite each other, so some scholars believe that this picture is copied from the mural manuscript. The composition of this volume is dense and elegant, the pen and ink are exquisite, the atmosphere is relaxed, and its white depiction is light and light ink, elegant and super-elegant. Watching this work, you can appreciate Li Gonglin's "Song painting character first" world art.
Song Li Gonglin 's Scroll of Descending Spirits in Xiyue, 26.5x582cm
Li Gonglin (李公麟), a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province, according to Wu Xiu's Chronicle of Continued Doubts, was born in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty (1049) of Emperor You (Emperor Renzong zhao zhen) and died around the fifth year (1106) of Chongning (Emperor Huizong Zhao). He entered the soil in the third year of Xi Ning (1070), served as the imperial history of the procuratorial law, resigned from the government in the third year (1100) of Yuan Fu (Zhezong Zhao Xu), lived in seclusion on Longmian Mountain, and called himself "Longmian Resident". He was a great painter between Xi Ning and Yuan Feng.
The Xuanhe Pictorial Notation records for the first time Li Gonglin's position in the history of figure painting: "Since Wu Jin, only thirty-three people have been given the title of famous hand, and its outstanding can be passed on, then Wu Zhicao Buxing, Jin Zhiwei Xie, followed by Zheng Fashi, Tang Zheng Qian, Zhou Fang, Zhao Yan and Du Xiao of the Five Dynasties, and Li Gonglin of this dynasty." Li Gonglin's famous works include: "Wei Mo Yan Jiao Tu", "Pastoral AndIng Map", "Fan Wang Li Buddha Tu", "Xiyue Descending Spirit Map", "Five Horse Diagram", "Yang Guan Tu" and so on.
The Xuanhe Pictorial Notation says that the characters he paints "can be distinguished in appearance, so that people can see their corridor temples, pavilion tea, mountains and forests, grass fields, Lu Yan, Zang Yue, Tai Yu, soap, as for the attitude of action, the pitching of the chin, the beauty and evil of the size, and the people of the east, west, south and north of the husband." There is a difference between being inferior and inferior, salty, not if the secular painters are mixed together, the nobles are ugly, and the fat red and thin black parts are stopped. ”
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