Zhang Yi.On Zhao Yi’s Poems on Paintings[J].Journal of Sun Yat-sen University(Social Science Edition),2024,64(04):32-42. DOI: 10.13471/j.cnki.jsysusse.2024.04.004.
Zhao Yi赵翼, a poet of the “psychic poetics” 性灵派 comparable with Yuan Mei袁枚, is a talented artist in the middle Qing Dynasty. Known for his “proficiency in poetry, calligraphy, and painting, with a spirit that transcended the tangible and intangible”才擅诗书画,心参形影神, he created a portraiture of
Oubei yunsong tu
鸥北耘菘图when he was an official historiographer in Beijing, showing his profound artistic foundation of painting and calligraphy. In addition to the poems on his
opinions On Poetry
论诗, he produced a large number of poems on paintings serving as evaluative critiques. His asserti
on of “I, I, in constant interplay with shadows and forms” 我我周旋共影形expressed an interchange of genuine and ideal landscapes, advocating the pursuit of novelty and infusing the stress of emotion, individuality, and innovation by psychic poets. Zhao Yi’s poems on paintings were not confined by rigid rules. Through vivid depictions and praise of magnificent landscapes, he navigated between the extraordinary and the conventional, reality and illusion, and the serene and the wandering, fully showcasing the temperament, talent, and character of a gifted individual, thus embodying the innovative artistic thought of “the skilled vying with nature’s ingenuity”.
关键词
性灵题画诗赵翼文艺
Keywords
psychic poeticspoems on paintingsZhao Yiliterature and art