| 内容简介（英文） | Li Shih-chuo (style names T’ien-chang and Han-chang; sobriquets Ku-chai, Shih-shih chu-shih) was a native of Feng-t’ien (modern Shen-yang, Liaoning). Li Shih-chuo was the nephew of the great finger painter Kao Ch’i-p’ei, and Li excelled at painting landscapes, figures, birds and flowers, and vegetables and fruits. Li’s brushwork was elegant and outstanding; he was fond of delicately using dry ink, thereby achieving the utmost in contrasts between heavy and soft applications of dark and light ink. In this album leaf, Li Shih-chuo depicted with disconnected brushwork shadowy plum blossoms criss-crossing. A bird can be seen perched alone on the tree trunk. The white blossoms were rendered using the circular petal method and provided expansive halos of light ink wash as a background. Although no colors were applied, the brushwork makes the entire painting appear utmost in delicate smoothness and beautiful elegance. Emerging from this atmosphere of elegant pruity is the fullness of simplicity. |
