Presenting the History of Jiangnan Painting and Embroidery
2023-12-29
The Liaoning Provincial Museum has a collection of "Han Ximeng's Embroidered Bird Album - Illustrations of Xuanhua and Butterfly". Suzhou Museum provides a picture of "Shen Shou Embroidered Clam" in the collection of Nantong Museum. Recently, the Suzhou Museum in Jiangsu Province held a special exhibition titled "Leaving the Lu Xiang Garden - History of Jiangnan Painting and Embroidery", showcasing 100 sets of embroidery masterpieces collected by multiple cultural and museum institutions and private collectors. Through five sections: "Embroidery through Painting", "Lu Xiang Garden Embroidery", "Inside and Outside the Palace Wall", "Embroidery for Independence", and "Wind and Moon in the Same Sky", the exhibition tells the development history of Jiangnan painting and embroidery and the stories of women behind it, Let the audience deeply experience the charm of embroidery art. Embroidery, as a traditional skill, has been passed down in China for thousands of years. In the Song Dynasty, embroidery art gradually developed from daily necessities decoration to an independent form of art. During the Chongning period of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the Hanlin Painting Academy established an embroidery specialty, where palace painters guided craftsmen to produce embroidery based on paintings. The "Embroidered Begonia Double Bird Painting" in the collection of Liaoning Provincial Museum is a precious Song embroidery masterpiece, originally from the old collection of the Qing Palace. The embroidery colors of the Song Dynasty were relatively soft, consistent with the style of Song painting. This picture is embroidered with brown threads on the stamens and sepals, while the petals, leaves, and birds are embroidered with nested or snatched stitches. The petals are faded in layers of white, light yellow, and deep yellow, while the leaves are embroidered with different shades of blue-green, beige, and yellow silk threads, showing a gradual yellowing effect of green leaves. Birds are embroidered with black, gray, and white threads to create a rich and subtle layering. The entire work is elegant and elegant, full of vitality. During the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Mingru and his brother Gu Mingshi built the "Lu Xiang Garden" in Songjiang (now Shanghai). The Gu family's family members are skilled in embroidery, skillfully combining literati painting with embroidery techniques, and creating a painting and embroidery art called "Gu embroidery", which uses needles as pens, fibers as paper, and silk threads as colors. According to records, Gu Xiu was created by Miao Ruiyun, the concubine of Gu Qiying, the eldest son of Gu Mingshi, and Han Ximeng, the granddaughter of Gu Mingshi, was the most accomplished. Han Ximeng is skilled in painting and embroidery. He often imitates famous paintings from the Song and Yuan dynasties and embroiders them. Contemporary artists such as Dong Qichang, Tan Yuanchun, and Chen Zilong have all written postscripts for his works. Gu embroidery often uses "Tiger Head", "Lu Xiang Yuan", "Qing Bi Zhai", and "Han's N ü Hong" as embroidery seals. Among them, "Han's N ü Hong" refers to the work of Han Ximeng, and is the only one in Gu embroidery that signs with their own surname, known as "Han Yuan Embroidery". The Liaoning Provincial Museum has a collection of ten volumes of "Han Ximeng Embroidered Bird Album", each with one side embroidered and one side inscribed. In the painting of Xuanhua Nymphalid Butterfly, there are several wild chrysanthemums under a Xuancao plant, and a butterfly flies around it, lifelike. Xuanhua petals are embroidered with white, yellow, and red silk threads to remove halo, while wild chrysanthemum petals and butterfly wings are embroidered with long and short needles. Embroider the square seal of "Han's Women's Red" in the bottom left corner of the work. Write a seven character regulated poem with the inscription "Kuai An" and Zhu Wenyin. The Suzhou Museum's collection of "Gu Xiu Apricot Blossom Village" is based on the Tang Dynasty's Du Mu's poem "Qingming" and embroidered apricot flowers on plain silk
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Source:people.cn
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