Tongyin Lady Picture Screen

[Tongyin Maiden Painting Screen]

Tongyin Maiden Painting Screen, Qing Dynasty, silk version, color setting, vertical 128.5 cm, horizontal 326 cm
This picture has no print. On the back of the screen is the full text of the Luo Xi Fu written by Emperor Kangxi Lindong Qichang, with three seals: “Sun Mirror and Cloud Extend”, “Kangxi Chen Han”, and “imperial feast”
This painting, painted during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, was made by a Chinese court painter, and is one of the earliest Chinese oil paintings ever seen. In the picture, the author completely uses Western oil painting techniques to depict a typical traditional Chinese wooden architecture, in which not only the obvious focus perspective method is used to enhance the vertical depth of the picture, but also the strong light and dark relationship between the highlight generated by the light irradiation and the projection is used to express the three-dimensional sense of the building. Although the technique is still naive, it is undoubtedly a new attempt, It injects new forms of expression and techniques into traditional Chinese architectural paintings.

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