| 内容简介（英文） | River Rock and Old Plum Tree Yun Shou-ping (1633-1690) Ch’ing Dynasty Yun Shou-p’ing (style name Cheng-shu; sobriquet Nan-t’ien) was a native of Wu-chin, Kiangsu. His original name was Ke, but was later known by his other style name, Shou-p’ing. His family was poor and he did not take the civil service examinations, instead selling paintings for a living. Yun Shou-p’ing initially excelled at painting landscapes, but realized after meeting the famous landscapist Wang Hui that he (Yun) could not surpass Wang. Yun Shou-p’ing thereafter gave up landscapes and began studying flower painting. Abandoning the contemporary fashion, he developed an original style, for which he was admired by everyone in what they praised as the Ch’ang-chou School. Depicted in this album leaf is a blossoming plum branch with forceful and upright twigs stretching out between rocks. The tips of the branches were rendered with extremely swift and trembling brushwork. Complemented by the bearing of the left and right developments in the composition, the painting is imbued with a sense of flourishing animation and movement. The tree and rock are painted completely using washes of monochrome ink with many different and interesting arrangements of sparse, thick, light, and dark ink. |
