中国肖像画家 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	中国肖像画家
品名（英）	Chinese Portrait Painter
入馆年号	1929年，29.100.528
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Miwa Zaiei【0 至 1789】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1700 - 公元 1799
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	40 x 49 1/4 英寸 (101.6 x 125.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	一位穿着唐朝（618-907）风格的中国画家正在画一幅站在他面前调整头发的美丽女士的小肖像。这幅画中的小画忠实地复制了这位女士的脸。屏风画本身证明了十八世纪日本艺术家有时持有的相互冲突的理想。尽管对这位名叫Miwa Zaiei的艺术家的背景一无所知，除了他在江户市生活和工作外，他一定受到了西方现实主义概念的影响，这种概念在十八世纪的日本艺术中已成为时尚，并促使他描绘画家的行为在肉体中绘画他的主题。然而，具有讽刺意味的是，宰依仍然觉得有必要遵循传统做法，即从中国古代创造一个想象的背景，以塑造他大概是"真实"生活的形象。
介绍（英）	A Chinese painter dressed in the style of the Tang dynasty (618–907) is painting a small portrait of a beautiful lady who stands in front of him adjusting her hair. The small painting-within-a-painting faithfully replicates the lady's face. The screen painting itself is a testament to the sometimes conflicting ideals held by eighteenth-century Japanese artists. Although nothing is known about the background of the artist, named Miwa Zaiei, except that he lived and worked in the city of Edo, he must have been affected by the concept of Western realism, which had become fashionable in eighteenth-century Japanese art and prompted him to portray the painter in the act of painting his subject in the flesh. Ironically, however, Zaiei still felt compelled to follow the traditional practice of creating an imaginary setting from ancient China for his image of presumably "real" life.

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