The Tang Palace Female Figure is a group of five Chinese paintings by Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang of the Tang Dynasty, depicting the beautiful female beings of the Tang Dynasty. It mainly expresses the life mood of aristocratic women in the Tang Dynasty and becomes the main artistic feature of tang dynasty female paintings.
The Tang Dynasty, as the most brilliant era of feudal society, was also the prosperous stage of female painting. The portrait of the ancient Chinese female beings, "the country fell into the city, sentimental and sickly".
Tang Dynasty female paintings are known for their dignified and gorgeous, graceful and elegant, the most outstanding representatives of which are Zhang Xuan's "Lady Yu Chun Tu", "Trick Painting" and Zhou Fang's "Lady of the Hairpin Flower", "Lady Of the Fan" and the late Tang Dynasty's "GongLe Tu", from which the five paintings constitute the "Tang Palace Lady Figure" Comprehensive Picture, known as one of the "Top Ten Famous Paintings in China".
Today's introduction is Zhou Fang's painting - "Fan Lady Figure".
"Fan Lady Picture" (partial)
"Fan Lady Picture" volume, silk color, length 33.7cm, horizontal 204 .8cm, the Collection of the Palace Museum. No author's print. Quote the four characters of the Qing Gaozong Hongli inscription "Yilan Qinghua". Han Shineng "Han Shi NengYin", "Han Zhongzi Clan", "Shi Neng", Qingliang Qingbiao "Banana Forest Book House", "Banana Forest Resident", "Banana Forest Kao Zang", Qing Gaozong Hongli "Gu Xi Tianzi", "Qianlong Royal Treasure", "Shiqu Baoji", "Qianlong Appreciation" and other collection seals, a total of 31 parties.
The total number of figures depicted in the whole volume is 13, divided into 5 natural passages.
The first paragraph is "waving a fan", a total of 4 people: a concubine wearing a jade lotus crown sits lazily in a chair with a tuan fan in her hand, half leaning and half lying down, on her right side there is a female official dressed in a purple robe and belt, holding a fan in both hands, in addition, there are two maids on the left who are waiting at the side of the noblewoman holding a toiletry in their hands, and the whole picture shows the living conditions and psychological embodiment of the noble women of the Tang Dynasty.
The second section is "Duanqin", a total of two people: a tall woman holding a piano, and another woman is cooperating with her to draw the piano.
The third paragraph is "Linjing", a total of two people: a person in a red official uniform stands with a mirror, and in front of the mirror, there is a very gorgeously dressed woman grooming in front of the mirror.
The fourth paragraph is "embroidery", a total of 3 people: one of the women is holding a tuan fan, lying on the edge of the embroidery bed, as if she is a little tired, and the other two women are embroidered on the bed.
The fifth paragraph is "leisure", a total of two people: a woman in makeup sitting on her back, waving a small fan in her hand, leading her neck to look away, and the other woman leaning against the tree, locked a pair of sad eyebrows and staring, dazed.
The five paragraphs seem to be in harmony, from different sides, depicting the various psychological states of the characters in different scenes. In the painting, the author expresses their feelings of loneliness, dullness, emptiness, boredom, and hatred through the depiction of the lives of the concubines. The picture structure is well-organized, the lines are beautiful and delicate, and the colors are soft and colorful, colorful and vulgar.
The painter Zhou Fang was born into a wealthy eunuch, so he was very familiar with the luxurious life of the aristocratic class. His paintings of ladies do not take the spirited women, virtuous women, fairies, etc. as the object of expression, but are based on the pleasure activities of aristocratic women in real life, with a strong sense of the times, thus catering to the aesthetic interests of the great bureaucratic aristocrats in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.
While exaggerating the prosperous material life of the Tang Dynasty, his works also reveal the extremely poor spiritual world of the noblewomen. The concubines in this picture are plump and richly dressed, but they have a grudge, a tired demeanor, and are lifeless.
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Zhou Fang's "Fan Lady Picture" is colored on silk 33.7 x 204.8cm
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