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Re: Guan Si scroll (1590-1630)

Posted By: rat
Posted Date: Feb 02, 2009 (08:33 AM)

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The following comes from Yu Jianhua's standard tome of painter biographies:

　關思，烏程人，字何思，號虛白，一名九思，字仲通，善山水。萬曆間與宋旭齊名。現存畫蹟，最早成於萬曆庚子（一六００），最晚成於崇禎庚午（一六三０），垂三十年。生卒年不詳。　此為傳世關畫最早之一幀，筆墨圓成，已是盛年之作。全幅層山複水，盡繁縟之能事。壓頂一峰，愈遠愈淡。峰外用青赭橫拖遠岸，草草數筆，遂覺江天浩闊。使人心中滓穢俱消也，惟能繁而不能厚，能巧而不能清，是為少欠。
Kuan Ssu was a native of Wu-ch’eng, Chekiang. His style name was Ho-ssu; his sobriquets were Hsü-pai, Chiu-ssu and Chung-t’ung. Excelling in landscape painting, Kuan Ssu and Sung Hsü were equally famous during the Wan-li period (1573-1619). The earliest painting by Kuan Ssu still extant is dated 1600; the latest 1630. This is one of his earliest paintings now extant. The fluency of brush and ink reveal that it is a mature work. The painting is composed of serried peaks and layered streams which are painted with increasingly dilute washes as they recede into the distance. Blue and ochre pigment are used on the mountains and distant embankments.

Store the scroll rolled up.

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