《藏云图》轴,明,崔子忠作,绢本,设色,纵189cm,横50.2cm。
此图取材于唐代大诗人李白的故事。相传李白居地肺山时,曾以瓶瓿贮存山中的浓云带回居所,散之卧内,得以“日饮清泉卧白云”。图中李白端坐四轮车上,初入深山,仰望山间蓊蓊郁郁的浓云似行似驻,变幻无端,面带讶异又若有所思。二童子分立左右,一人搭绳牵车,一人荷杖引导。山石树木皆用暗色,藉以反衬画面中部大面积的白云。同时,又巧妙地借用水纹的画法以细线勾出波纹,或疏或密,表现出云雾强烈的流动性,以及“晴则如絮,幻则如人,行出足下,坐生袖中,旅行者不见前后”的种种变化。山石层叠而上,似方似圆,造型怪异;远山屈曲,如笋向天;老树虬劲盘旋,迥异凡尘,给人以静寂神秘之感。人物虽极小,却置于画幅最为显著的视点,并施以纯净鲜明的蓝、白、黑亮色,与背景的浓云暗树对比强烈,醒目而突出,体现出作者的匠心。崔子忠的绘画,热衷神仙、道释题材,此幅描绘被人们称为“诗仙”的李白,且使其置身于云出雾没、超然出尘的神山仙境之中,在尊颂先贤的同时,也寄托了画家自己对现实世界的不满和对隐逸出世的向往和追求。
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"Tibetan Cloud Map" axis, Ming Dynasty, Cui Zizhong, silk, color, vertical 189 cm, horizontal 50.2 cm.
This picture is based on the story of Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that when Li Bai lived in Lung Shan, he used bottle gourd to store the clouds in the mountain and brought them back to his residence. When he was scattered in his bed, he was able to "drink clear spring and lie in white clouds every day". In the picture, Li Baiduan is on a four-wheeled vehicle, entering the deep mountains for the first time, looking up at the dense clouds in the mountains, which seem to be stationed, changeable and unprovoked, with a surprising and thoughtful face. Two boys separated around, one was led by rope and one was guided by a stick. Rocks and trees are dark to contrast the large area of white clouds in the middle of the picture. At the same time, it also skillfully draws out the ripple with fine lines, or sparse or dense, showing the strong fluidity of clouds and fog, and the variety of "clear as flocculent, illusory as human, traveling under foot, sitting in the sleeve, travelers do not see the front and back". Hills and stones are stacked on top, like square and round, strange in shape; mountains are crooked, like bamboo shoots toward the sky; old trees are spiraling vigorously, with extraordinary dust, giving people a sense of silence and mystery. Although the characters are very small, they are placed in the most prominent point of view of the painting, and applied pure and bright blue, white, black and bright colors, which are strongly contrasted with the dense clouds and dark trees in the background, striking and prominent, reflecting the author's ingenuity. Cui Zizhong's paintings are devoted to immortals and Taoist themes. This painting depicts Li Bai, who is known as "the immortal poet", and exposes him to the fairyland of the immortal mountain where clouds and clouds come out of the mist and dust. While honoring the sages, it also expresses the artist's dissatisfaction with the real world and his yearning for and pursuit of seclusion.