Commemorating the 700th anniversary of Zhao Mengfu's death "Not Romance: Zhao Mengfu Biography" helps readers re -understand Zhao Mengfu

Cover news reporter Zhang Jie

2022 is the 700th anniversary of the death of the painter in the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhao Mengfu was the most prestigious painter in the Yuan Dynasty and one of the shining superstars in the history of Chinese art.

His life involves the conflict and test of northern scholars, art and power, family and dynasty, morals and laws, officialdom and literary worlds, and his life experience is more complicated than the glorious image recorded on the inscription. His hard work and happiness, humiliation and glory were hidden in a line of calligraphy and calligraphy, hiding in the words of the book books.

In September, Tsinghua University Press launched a new work of art history "Not Romance: Zhao Mengfu Biography". The author Zhou Wenhan peeled cocoon from the complicated historical materials. The unprecedented depth and breadth explored the cultural ecology and officialdom, society, and society of the Yuan Dynasty, tracing Zhao Mengfu's family, marriage, many unspeakable hidden and painful helplessness, analyzed him The evolution clue of the creation of calligraphy and painting shows how the former royal family of the royal family and the "passive" on the officialdom became a generation of art giants, making readers understand why he became his reason. All characters, scenes, and introduction are based on the historical materials of the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty. There is no literary fiction, which helps readers to re -understand Zhao Mengfu and re -understand the Yuan Dynasty.

In addition to the text, the book is also based on the 50 Zhao Mengluan calligraphy and painting works collected by museums at home and abroad, and the cultural relics of the Yuan Dynasty as image evidence, showing the colorful visual landscape of Zhao Mengfu's life.

Zhou Wenhan said that the origin of this book was more than ten years of writing "History of Chinese Art Collection", which involved ancient Chinese artists and collectors involved in Zhao Mengfu and Wen Zhengming. Although the names of these artists are like thunderous in the art circle and cultural circle, their serious biography is very rare. This made Zhou Wenhan feel that these ancients seemed to be a "famous hollow" today -although very famous, people did not have a detailed and reliable understanding of their personality and experience. It's just "hollow scarecrow". Therefore, at that time he decided to write biography for these ancient art masters. Based on the 21st century writing concept and historius research, the spirit, meat, tears and blood of these characters were presented. Living ancient artist image.

After some inquiry, Zhou Wenhan found that Zhao Mengfu was not as "light and light" as his poems, calligraphy and painting showed, in fact, there were many pain and helpless parts in his life experience. "His life involves North Scholars and Nanshi, art and power conspiracy, family and dynasty, morals and laws, officials and literary world conflicts and tests, his life experience is more complex than the glorious image recorded on the inscription. Honor is hidden in a line of calligraphy and painting, hiding in the words of the book of the manuscript.

Fan Di'an, chairman of the Chinese Artists Association and dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, mentioned in the preface to this book that Zhao Mengfu, the master of the combination of the art of calligraphy and painting in the Yuan Dynasty, inherited the style of multiple books and ingeniously created the "Zhao "Body", and using books into painting is an important founder of "literati painting", which has a huge impact on the art of painting since the end of the Yuan Dynasty. However, most people outside the profession only know his name and a few representative works, and do not know much about his life encounters and artistic appearance. The social and cultural conditions of the Yuan Dynasty were also relatively unfamiliar to many people, and it deserves deep excavation of researchers from all walks of life.

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