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品名（中）	断桥飘雪
品名（英）	Fragrant Snow at Broken Bridge
入馆年号	1973年，1973.121.9
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Wang Mian【1287 至 1359】【中国人】
创作年份	公元 1300 - 公元 1359
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	图像: 44 1/2 x 19 3/4 英寸 (113 x 50.2 厘米) 整体 with colophons: 68 x 19 3/4 英寸 (172.7 x 50.2 厘米) 整体 with mounting: 106 1/8 x 25 1/4 英寸 (269.6 x 64.1 厘米) 整体 with knobs: 106 1/8 x 29 1/2 英寸 (269.6 x 74.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	作为一个雄心勃勃的学者，王冕决心履行自己作为一个有才能的人的责任，尽管在蒙古统治下生活的挫折和危险。他学习哲学、军事战术和政治。他写了诗歌和政府论文，制定了作战计划，描绘了令人难忘的梅花形象，成为明清时期梅花画家的主要典范在这幅画中，王梅因平衡了其主题的表现力和代表性元素，因为在描绘绢花和粗糙的树枝时，他既采用了学术前辈的细腻画法，也采用了同时代文人的大胆书法笔法开花的梅子（Prunus mume，或日本杏子）在南宋时期成为人们热烈关注的对象，一直是中国最喜爱的主题之一。它在所有其他树木之前开花，被欢迎为春天的预兆。到了王冕的时代，在野蛮的蒙古统治的影响下，盛开在枯萎的冬季景色中的梅花的形象已经成为在逆境中纯洁和忍耐的有力象征。
介绍（英）	An ambitious scholar, Wang Mian was determined to fulfill his responsibilities as a man of talent despite the frustrations and dangers of life under Mongol rule. He studied philosophy, military tactics and politics. He wrote poems and government treatises, drew up battle plans and painted unforgettable images of the flowering plum that became the principal model for plum painters of Ming and Qing times. In this painting, Wang Main brought into balance the expressive and representational elements of his subject, for in depicting silken blossoms and rough branches, he employed both the delicately descriptive techniques of his academic predecessors and the bold calligraphic brushwork of his literati contemporaries. The flowering plum (Prunus mume, or Japanese apricot) became an object of intense enthusiasm during the Southern Song dynasty and has remained one of China's favorite motifs. Blooming before all other trees, it was welcomed as the harbinger of spring. By Wang Mian's time, under the impact of the barbarian Mongol rule, the image of the flowering plum blossoming in the withered winter landscape, had become a powerful symbol of purity and endurance in adversity.