Yao Shou. Pilastri del paese. 1423-1495. Cina. Handscroll; inchiostro e colore su carta insieme con quelle di un riverscape, rocce, fiori e rami di cedro e di bambù, la gazza è uno dei sei immagini dipinte da Yao Shou lungo la lunghezza di questo handscroll. Il suo ruolo rappresenta un venerato il genere di pittura conosciuta come "bird-e-fiore", il cui migliori artisti avevano raggiunto una straordinaria raffinatezza e realismo dal XI secolo. Yao Shou la visione, tuttavia, è stato molto più personali se apparentemente più semplice. Egli ha descritto la gazza quasi unicamente in varie tonalità di inchiostro nero; i rami

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Yao Shou. Pillars of the Country. 1423–1495. China. Handscroll; ink and color on paper Together with those of a riverscape, rocks, flowers, and branches of cedar and bamboo, the magpie is one of six images painted by Yao Shou along the length of this handscroll. Its portrayal represents a venerable genre of painting known as “bird-and-flower, ” whose finest artists had achieved extraordinary refinement and realism by the eleventh century. Yao Shou’s vision, however, was far more personal if seemingly simpler. He described the magpie almost solely in varied tonalities of black ink; the branches are accented with darker twigs and dotted leaves but possess little sense of spatiality; and the bamboo leaves are rendered in freely executed strokes of pale blue.Yao Shou accompanied the magpie—as he did its companion images—with an original poem written in his characteristically elegant cursive script and signed with his courtesy name, Gongshou In the bright moonlight, why does themagpie circle three times beforealighting During sunny days, it sings on the greenbranches.I also practice divination to find the placewhere the magpie often roosts.It stays on the rooftop of the old master’shouse, and the stars arrive late.The title and artist’s biography combine to add poignancy to this work. “Pillars of the Country” refers to the vital role of intellectuals in supporting China’s integrity. Almost thirty years earlier, gratuitous slander had driven Yao Shou from a prestigious career in government service to retirement as a painter, calligrapher, collector, and scholar?—? all pursuits of a traditional literatus. Now advanced in years, he expressed his cultivated ideals in both the willful spontaneity of his brushwork and the informed allusions in his inscription, adapting each line from that of a celebrated poem from centuries past.As documented by several seals impressed on its surface, this painting once held an honored place in the collection of the Qian