Paintings of Flowers by Yun Shouping in Qing Dynasty
Paintings of Flowers
by Yun Shouping
Qing Dynasty (1636--1912)
Paintings on silk scrolls
A set of 12 pieces of paintings on various flowers
Height: 32.5cm; Width: 25.5cm
Depicted on the Paintings of Flowers are twelve kinds of flowers, namely, water lily, pear blossom, narcissus, peach blossom, alumroot, poppy, camellia, guava, morning glory, double phoenix, cinnamomum ramulus and tricolour amaranth. The painter adopted a new painting skill, that is, stippling directly without sketching the outline in depicting these flowers, giving rise to a novel and unique style of each one. Through such free and elegant painting skills, twelve flowers, each with distinctive beauty, vividly and brightly bloom on the paintings. Either signatures or poems are inscribed on these scrolls, which are perfectly harmonious with the flowers, bringing out the best effect of the paintings and making the pictures more appealing.
Scroll One: Painting on Tricolour Amaranth with an Inscription
Scroll Two: Painting on Sweet Osmanthus with an Inscription
Scroll Three: Painting on Pomegranate Blossom and Homiat
Scroll Four: Painting on Narcissus with the Painter’s Signature
Scroll Five: Painting on Poppy Flower with an Inscription
Scroll Six: Painting on Symplocos Anomala with an Inscription
Scroll Seven: Painting on Double Color Balsamine with an Inscription
Scroll Eight: Painting on Morning Glory with a Poem
Scroll Nine: Painting on Water Lily with an Inscription
Scroll Ten: Painting on Rosa Rubus with an Inscription
Scroll Eleven: Painting on Peach Blossom
Scroll Twelve: Painting on Pear Flower with a Poem
深入探索
On Yun Shouping, the Master Painter
Yun Shouping (1633—1690), styled Mingge, also known by his literary name Nantian, born in Wujin (now Changzhou in Jiangsu Province), was one of the six “Master Painters” in the early Qing Dynasty.
He led a life by selling pictures. He was good at painting landscape and flowers, with his so-called "boneless" painting technique on flowers being most widely admired.
Besides the paintings on the theme of maintain- and-river-landscape and flowers, he was also renowned as an extraordinary outstanding poet and calligrapher. His poems were elegant, while his calligraphy represented his masculine character.
