Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall lives in the picture screen • leaning on the couch to view the magpie axis

[Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall’s In-depth Dwelling Screen • Viewing Magpies on the Bed]

The axis of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall’s In-depth Dwelling Screen • Viewing Magpies on the Bed, painted by court painters in the Qing Dynasty, silk, colored, 184 cm vertically and 98 cm horizontally
This is one of the 12 pictures of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall
The picture shows a woman in gorgeous clothes sitting sideways on the couch, looking at the magpies playing outside. The author intends to reflect the happy mood of women when watching magpies, but subconsciously shows the emptiness of palace life. The magpies in pairs reflect the loneliness and loneliness of women. The screen behind the master has the characters “longevity” in various calligraphic styles, implying the meaning of praying for longevity
With his profound realistic skills and ingenious ideas, the author fills his paintings with the imagination space of “filling reality with emptiness”. The longevity screen, vases and pine branches in the picture are only half painted, but they have the artistic effect of “the pen is broken and the meaning is connected”, and the integrity is not lost in the shape, thus successfully embellishing the picture. Although the woman’s eyes in the picture cannot be represented in a concrete way, the author accurately portrays the woman’s side twisting posture to show her invisible eyes, thus naturally connecting the indoor and outdoor scenery