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品名（中）	鲜花
品名（英）	Flowers
入馆年号	1912年，12.37.134
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Lü Jingfu【1367 至 1399】【中国人】
创作年份	公元 1368 - 公元 1399
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	40 x 20 7/8 英寸 (101.6 x 53 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅花画画派的装饰作品与十四世纪末画家吕景富的签名作品相媲美。这幅画最初是一对匹配的面板之一，描绘了蝴蝶和一只螳螂在晚春的罂粟花、紫苑、中国粉红色和菊花束中飞翔;中间前景中的蝾螈两侧是左侧的兰花和右侧的卷心菜。花朵和昆虫以精细精确的笔触完美地执行，并以粉红色、白色、绿色和紫色的精致色调着色，并带有孔雀石绿色和粉白色的亮点。在青蛙、蝾螈、螳螂和蝉出现的花卉元素的时期的蓝白陶瓷和其他装饰艺术上也发现了类似的图案。当螳螂吞噬蝉时，蝾螈象征着自然界中的周期性捕食，并呼应了庄子的一段名言："生物如此纠缠于自然界，一个物种总是捕食另一个物种。这些图案在十四世纪艺术中的流行似乎反映了当时的政治气候，当时由蒙古人统治的中国受到镇压和不公正的困扰。
介绍（英）	This decorative work of the Piling school of flower painting compares closely to signed works by the late-fourteenth-century painter Lü Jingfu. Originally one of a matching pair of panels, the painting shows butterflies and a praying mantis flying amid a late-spring bouquet of poppies, asters, Chinese pinks, and chrysanthemums; a salamander in the center foreground is flanked by an orchid on the left and a cabbage on the right. The flowers and insects are flawlessly executed in fine precise brushwork and colored in delicate hues of pink, white, green, and purple, with malachite green and powder-white highlights. Similar motifs are found on blue-and-white ceramics and other decorative arts of the period where floral elements appear with frogs, salamanders, praying mantises, and cicadas. The salamander, when shown with a praying mantis devouring a cicada, symbolizes cyclical predation in nature and echoes a famous passage from the Zhuangzi: "Creatures are so enmeshed in nature, one species always preying on another." The popularity of such motifs in fourteenth-century art seems to reflect the political climate of the time, when China, ruled by the Mongols, was beset by repression and injustice.