China's Top Arts 中國頂級藝術

Top Masterpieces: 9. Late Song Dynasty, Huang Gongwang's "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" 9. 頂級名畫: 宋末元初黃公望《富春山居圖》

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"Picture of the Remaining Mountain"

"Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is a work by Huang Gongwang, a painter from the late Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty. It was created from 1347 to 1350. It uses the Fuchun River in Zhejiang as the background. The mountains and water are arranged in a dense and dense manner. The ink colors are thick and light, dry and wet, and the ink is beautiful and moist. Simple and elegant, but extraordinary and full of variety, it is Huang Gongwang's masterpiece. It has been praised by later generations as "the Orchid Pavilion in painting" and "the first masterpiece of landscape painting". It is one of China's top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. The total length is about 690 centimeters, and the painting was not completed in one go. Huang Gongwang mentioned in the postscript that this painting was painted from the 7th year of Zhizheng to the 10th year of Zhizheng. He would take it with him and add ink and ink according to his interest. He painted it repeatedly for several years, making it "rich." The front and back sections of "Spring Mountain Residence" are different.

The complete picture of Fuchun Mountain Residence was originally collected by Dong Qichang in the late Ming Dynasty. Dong Qichang later sold it to Wu Zhengzhi, and the seal was made by Wu Zhengzhi. During the Shunzhi period of the early Qing Dynasty, the painting was passed on to his son Wu Hongyu. Before Wu Hongyu passed away, he decided to bury Zhiyong's "Thousand Character Essay" and Huang Gongwang's "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" collection. When these paintings were thrown into the stove, his nephew Wu Zhendu rescued the "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" from the fire, but The scroll has been burnt into two sections, one large and one small. The first section of the original scroll has been repaired and is called the "Remaining Mountain Picture". It is 51.4 cm wide and 31.8 cm high, accounting for 1/14 of the original painting. The latter part is longer and is called "The Useless Master". "Scroll", 636.9 cm in width and 33 cm in height, occupying 12/14 of the original painting.

"Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" from the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

Remaining Mountain Pictures from "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" collected by Zhejiang Provincial Museum

The original name of "Wu Yong Shi Volume" is because the inscription and postscript indicate that the painting is dedicated to "Wu Yong Shi". Wu Yong Shi's real name is Zheng and his nickname is Wu Yong. He is a Taoist priest and the younger brother of Huang Gongwang. After the death of collector An Yizhou in 1746, his family fell into decline. The "Wuyongshijuan" was sold and collected by the Qing palace.

"The Picture of the Remaining Mountains" has an inscription by Wang Tingbin in 1669, explaining the story of Wu Hongyu's burning of the "Picture of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" in 1650. In the early years of the Republic of China, it lived among the people and was later collected by Wu Hufan in Shanghai. He used seal characters to mention "the mountains and rivers are rich and the vegetation is lush". Previously, Han Feng titled "A Corner of Fuchun", which means that the extant ones are only a small part of the remnant.