| 内容简介（英文） | Liu Sung-nien was a native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Chekiang Provice, and later lived outside of the Ch'ing-p'o gate resulting in his common appelations Liu Ch'ing-p'o and Liu of the Shadowy Gate. He was a student in the Imperial Painting Acadmy of the Hsiao-tsung emperor (reigned 1163-1189) of the Southern Sung Period. In the early 1190s he became a painter-in-attendance in the Academy where his meticulous figrure paintings and landscapes in the manner of his teacher Chang Hsun-li were praised as masterpieces. Inside the waterside pavilion two men sit engaged in conversation while a servant boy waits in attendance at one side. A fine layer of snow dusts the branches of the old, arching willows, and light green and vermilion pigments describe the leaves of the trees in this scene of the melting spring snow at the Willow Bridge Pavilion. The brushwork in this painting is gentle and pleasant, and the colors are quiet and refined. It is thoroughly imbued with the manner of Ming dynasty paintings, so although it is signed with Liu Sung-nien's name, it is in fact the work of a later artist. This album is the first leaf in the album, “Collected Jewels of Sung, Yuan and Ming Painting”. |
