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金 武元直: 赤壁圖 The Red Cliff by Wu Yuan-chih
武元直(12世紀),字善夫。金畫家,以山水見長。是卷取材蘇軾赤壁泛舟景,在名目繁多的赤壁圖中,首推最古最佳作品。拖尾趙秉文大字行書赤壁詞,元直與秉文同為金人,
書畫合璧是傳世稀少的金代精品。
Wu Yuan-chih (twelfth century), Shan-fu by style name, was from the Jurched's Chin dynasty. He was a gifted painter,
talented in landscape paintings. Of the many paintings on the theme of the famous poetry "The Red Cliff" composed by Su Shi (Tung-p'o), this
piece is surmised to be the oldest and most eminent. It is also a valuable work among the rare examples of the Jurched's Chin dynasty painting.
The colophon in large semi-cursive script proceeding the painting is also a rare example of calligraphy from the same period by the renowned
contemporary literati Chao Ping-wen.
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