Infinite Beauty—Literature and Female Images in Figure Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Introduction
Infinite Beauty—Literature and Female Images in Figure Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Looking down, they come with an agreeable smile—
Gentle, tender, give birth to a new being, make a harmonious and orderly home;
They come here with their horses and swords—
Wisdom, perseverance, valiant, women are in no way inferior to men;
Walking with a light step, they come here in fairy clothes—
Holy, loving, the spiritual harbor of the lost souls;
They ride the winds and break the waves to come here—
Proud and solitary, free and enthusiastic, living up to the true self, peerless and independent…
Infinite beauty, beauties are infinite. In the inheritance and development of figure paintings in the Ming and Qing dynasties, many famous or unknown masters of traditional Chinese painting, from making classical allusions to viewing Chinese learning as substance, western learning for application, from pen and ink portrayal to a vivid touch, recorded lifelike female images and their soul-stirring literary stories in history. Today, they meet us after shaking off hundreds of years of established rules of secular society... Perhaps, inside and outside the frames, brand-new life and significance is made possible for them when we look at the women face to face.
Highlights
- 清·佚名·闺阁晏居图——围炉夜话 月夜来访
- 清·佚名·婚庆图
- 明·佚名·庭院嬉戏图
- 清·王起凤·五福三多图
- 清·佚名·纨扇仕女图
- 清·朱铠·仕女图 《仿唐寅仕女图》
- 清·朱铠·仕女图 《摹仇英仕女图》
- 清·朱铠·仕女图 《拟改琦仕女图》
- 清·朱铠·仕女图 《琵琶行诗意图》
- 清·陈其璧·携琴仕女图
- 清·麻姑寿星缎绣寿帐
- 纸本设色 内尺寸112×78厘米,外尺寸166×101厘米 有框 长沙市大观仓艺术博物馆藏See More