Beauties and Heroes: Legends and Stories in Chinese Art
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The Beauties' Spring Outing
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Description
This painting by the self-taught Sichuan artist Peng Xiancheng (b. 1941) illustrates the poem The Beauties’ Spring Outing, written by Tang dynasty poet Du Fu (AD 712-770) in AD 753. At this time the emperor’s favourite consort Yang Guifei and her cousin Yang Guozhong were in power. The poem criticises the extravagant riding parties thrown by Yang Guozhong’s two sisters whilst the people suffered hardships. The painting applies the ‘boneless’ style of Tang dynasty figure painting, comprising colour washes with little or no underlying linear structure.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Sichuan province › Chengdu (place of creation)
- Date
- 1991
- Artist/maker
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Peng Xiancheng (born 1941) (artist)after Du Fu (AD 712 - 770) (author)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 156.9 x 77.8 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 120 x 58.7 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.226
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 62 on p. 50, p. 9, illus. p. 51 fig. 62
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
This painting by the self-taught Sichuan artist Peng Xiancheng illustrates a poem written in AD 753 by Du Fu, in which he criticises the extravagance of the Emperor's concubines' riding parties while the people suffered hardships. It is painted in the "boneless" style of Tang figure painting, comprising colour washes with little or no underlying linear structure.
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