Several overseas works
1. Glass hall map
The Painting of the Coloured Glass Hall is an imitation of the Song Dynasty, 3 1.3cm× 126.2cm, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA. The content of this volume, according to the relevant historical records, is the story of Wang Changling, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, and his poetry friends meeting and singing in front of Liu Li Hall in Chengren House, Jiangning County. * * * Draw eleven people: a monk, seven scribes and three waiters. Wang Changling, a monk, and Li Bai, a poet, were all dressed in black and sat with the monks. This work, together with the rest of the second half in Beijing, is a copy of the Song Dynasty, and this one that flowed into the United States is a complete copy, which is even more valuable.
The whole painting is divided into two parts. The first part is centered on dharma body. Wang Changling and other two scribes were discussing, and two waiters stood behind with boxes. In the second half, the theme is the literati's conception of poetry. Li Bai leans on pine and thinks. A waiter is grinding ink and leaning on a stone to write, while the thinker is writing a book. The last scribe looked back with a book. If he feels something, the man in black sitting with him is looking forward to writing a book and seems to have found a good sentence. The characters in the whole picture are complicated and arranged at random, which truly reproduces the situation of literati at that time. This work "Xuan He Hua Pu" is also recorded, and the record in "Zhai Qinji" is more detailed:
..... Eight people, all in Tang costumes, three boys, three people sitting with Hu Monk, Zhu Yi holding a Vatican folder to study, and Sanzang only has a few things; The one in green refers to the left, and the one in yellow hands it over. They all talk about it as if they were writers. Two people stand together, and the boy grinds ink. One depends on Qu Song, if he dictated his meaning; One is based on stone, holding the scroll left and the pen right, holding it, thinking about summing up the meaning and writing it. After they sat on a stone, * * * held a book, looked up the words while reading it, and leaned back to think about it ... It is consistent with this to compare this record with the characters in this volume. "Everyone in the Tang Dynasty is dressed" is a story of the Tang Dynasty. The painter is elegant and elegant. The line drawing of the clothes is abrupt and turning, and there is a sense of trembling, which is consistent with the pen used in today's "Heavy Screen Chess Manual". Zhou Wenju inherited Zhou Fang's painting style in the late Tang Dynasty, with simple colors and was influenced by Li Houzhu's calligraphy "Jin Cuodao". According to archaeological and documentary records, the armchair, couch and bookcase in the painting have all been proved to exist after the Five Dynasties, excluding the statement that the author is Han Kun. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, this book was acquired by De, and it had a long postscript at first, and then it spread overseas.
2. The Master of Chess
This volume is also a Song version, with a full picture of 31.3cm× 50cm.. It is the same parent as the "Double Screen Chess Map" collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing, depicting the scene of entertainment between the master and the younger brother. Zhou Wenju's most famous work handed down from ancient times is Double Screen Picture. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Mingqing identified one of them as a master of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and later identified the four chess players in the painting as four senior brothers of the Southern Tang Dynasty. This topic is called "Li Houzhu Watching Chess", which may be based on this topic. The third volume of "Three Stories of Blowing Dust" and "Travel History" says that the "heavy screen picture" is the main image of Jong Li in the southern Tang Dynasty: the building is a great defense against the West Lang, which is close to the "heavy screen picture" painted by Zhou Wenju ... The Ming and Qing Dynasties said:' My old father grazed Jiujiang, and the main statue of Jong Li in the south of the Yangtze River was hidden in the home of Yuantong Temple in Lushan Mountain. Now draw it here. ..... Desperate to benefit the economy, taking the old Li Xiang as a gift, it looks like a crown, and there is no difference. Because of the postscript, I am deeply rewarded for building a (big defense). ("Three Stories of Flying Dust") Yanbei Magazine said again:
From the "double screen picture" to Ruyin Wang Mingqing, it is determined that the main image of Li Zhong in the Southern Tang Dynasty is the sitter ... Four brothers from Jong Li in the south of the Yangtze River go and write poems in front of the screen. ...
In the picture, one person is watching chess in the middle, thoughtfully, and another person is paying attention to the chess game. Two people are playing chess hand in hand, and they are playing fiercely. There is a waiter next to the picture. Set the screen and sofa in the background, and draw screen characters on the screen. This picture is not recorded in the Catalogue of Lost Paintings and Calligraphy in the Forbidden City. Now it's at the Free Art Museum.
3. Palace Map
This volume has three sections, which were copied in the Southern Song Dynasty. 1947 or so flows overseas. The first paragraph is 28.3 cm× 168.5 cm, which was collected in the Cleveland Museum of Art, once named Portrait of a Lady; the second paragraph is collected in the Fogg Museum of Harvard University, named Portrait of a Palace; and the third paragraph is collected in Chunxiao in the Tang Palace, which was originally a British private collection and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Portrait of a Palace in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Zhou Wenju's Palace Map, a woman and a son, eighty. A person writes about God.
Zhang Chou's Catalogue of Original Works in Ming Dynasty, Bian Yongyu's Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy in Style Ancient Hall in Qing Dynasty and Huahuizhai's Collection of Famous Paintings since Tang and Song Dynasties in modern Zheng Zhenduo are all recorded. This volume depicts the daily life of concubines and maids in the harem, with different life scenes. Or engage in literary activities with female officials, or play the piano, or sit and talk, or wash and dress in front of the mirror, or look after the prince, play and entertain ... all kinds of things, and write about the daily situation in the palace. The characters are cheerful and orderly, and their expressions are natural and cheerful. There is no atmosphere of resentment in the court described by some poets at all, which is a true portrayal of daily life in the court. 80 characters, or a group of 35 1 person, or a cluster of 67 people, are in good order, which fully shows the author's ability to control the big scene. According to "History of Painting", Zhou Wenju, an imperial edict of Hanlin, was talented in painting, and was good at interpreting figures, mountains and rivers, especially painting ladies. In previous studies, painting a lady is not expensive, but painting a boudoir, that is, writing her manners and charm. Looking at this volume of Zhou Wenju's works, the meticulous observation of court life, beautiful modeling and complex character changes are really amazing. Although it is not the original, it still makes people feel his extraordinary talent.
4. Drink tea and bathe the baby.
These two works, which were handed down to Zhou Wenju in the past, are also copies of Song people. They are round fans and silk books, 35.8 cm long and 35.9 cm wide. The pre-printed picture of the collection has collection seals such as "Faithful Appraisal Collection", "Faithful Appreciation" and "Faithful Appreciation", and the back picture has seals such as "Dan Cheng", "Faithful Appreciation" and "Dewey Geng Guangxin Calligraphy and Painting Seal", which are collected in the Foley Art Museum in the United States. "Drinking Tea" shows a lady taking tea from a tea tray, lowering her head, reaching for the cup with one hand and trying to hold it from behind with the other. A maid dressed in green holds a tea tray in both hands and looks at the tea in the tray carefully and intently. Not far away, a lady stood with her back to them with her chest in her hands, slightly bowed her head, looking dignified, as if waiting for a waiter to serve tea, followed by a maid holding a brocade box. The layout of the whole picture is compact. Although there are four people, it is difficult to arrange, but two people are arranged as a group, and the other two are separated from them into two groups. In the latter group, the distance between the two people is slightly widened, thus forming a three-part composition, forming a pattern of alternating density, with sparse middle and dense middle, and the arrangement of density is extremely appropriate. Although this book is a fan sketch, it is also made with heart, which shows the beauty of Song people's heart and shape. Zhou Wenju's painting style can also be seen from it.
This baby bath painting depicts three women bathing four babies. A woman on the right is undressing the child, and the child puts his hand in the basin, showing a reluctant expression. In the middle, a woman is bathing the child. The child in the basin sat in the water with tears on his face, as if he were trapped in the water by an adult. She is very impatient. A child's coat has been taken off by the washbasin, and she is holding the washbasin to watch the child undress. On the left is a woman sitting on a stool, and a child is playing coquetry with his arms, as if he had taken a bath, trying to snuggle up in his mother's arms to find milk. The woman sitting on the stool held the child in one hand and watched the woman undress the child with her eyes in the other. The whole picture depicts the whole scene from undressing to washing, showing the whole process of daily bathing in great detail. Rich and rigorous composition, full of life interest, worthy of expressing the theme of ladies and children.