INTRODUCTION TO "AN AUTUMN DAWN ON LAKE AND HILLS" BY WU YUSHAN吴漁山“湖山秋曉圖卷”介紹
The article by Huang Xiaofeng presents an interpretative introduction to the long scroll "An Autumn Dawn on Lakes and Hills" ("湖山秋曉圖卷"), by Wu Yushan (吳漁山/"Yushan"), analyzing how the work articulates seventeenth-century pictorial models with concrete memories of the Macau experience. The text situa...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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| Format: | Articles |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
January 2005
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40013/2324 |
| Summary: | The article by Huang Xiaofeng presents an interpretative introduction to the long scroll "An Autumn Dawn on Lakes and Hills" ("湖山秋曉圖卷"), by Wu Yushan (吳漁山/"Yushan"), analyzing how the work articulates seventeenth-century pictorial models with concrete memories of the Macau experience. The text situates the scroll within the context of heritage circulation (collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art) and, above all, employs the painter's own postscripts as a methodological basis for reconstructing the aesthetic intention and the author's affective relationship with the landscape. Huang argues that, although Wu declares a deliberate imitation of the Yuan masters Huang Gongwang and Wang Meng, the value of the scroll resides in the "permeability" between tradition and lived experience: the "lakes and hills" acquire "profound meanings" from places he actually observed, including Xiangshan (香山) and the territory of Macau, contemplated at a moment when artistic memory was still vividly sustained. As its principal conclusions, the article reads the work as a late project of cultural consolidation and self-reflection, in which pictorial practice—undertaken as a conscious effort before the deterioration of skill—transforms recollection into idealized nature, without negating the personal originality of Wu Yushan. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |