New Insights on the Evidence of Japanese Influence in Chen Shizeng’s Beijing Customs Album
Resource
美術史研究集刊, 28, 185-266
Journal
美術史研究集刊
Journal Issue
28
Pages
185-266
Date Issued
2010-03
Date
2010-03
Author(s)
Lu, H.F.
Abstract
Scholars have done a lot of research on the Beijing Customs Album by Chen Shizeng, a famous painter in the early twentieth-century China. Although researchers have pointed out the presence of artistic elements of Sino-Western synthesis in this album, they have not explained in detail what these Sino-Western features are and how they are represented. What training did the painter undergo? Why did Chen Shizeng, who belonged to the group of new intellectuals and upper-class literati, choose a nontraditional Chinese style for “genre painting”? None of these questions have been thoroughly discussed. The author believes that the successive analysis of the creation, completion and circulation of the Beijing Customs Album will enable us to understand the complex process of artistic exchange between modern China and Japan. In the Beijing Customs Album, which shows stylistic influence of Japanese and Western ideas, Chen Shizeng expresses the quest for self-identity to, and new comprehension of, Beijing and Chinese cultural tradition at that time. The author will analyze the evidence of Japanese stylistic influence in the Beijing Customs Album, the artist’s new painting techniques and the presence of the new ideas. Furthermore, the author will discuss the way in which this work was viewed, received and accepted by the public of different periods. The author believes that only with a detailed analysis of the aspects mentioned above can one grasp the true meaning and value of the Beijing Customs Album and appreciate the contribution of Chen Shizeng and his place in the painting history of early Republican period. (Translated by Anya Stets)
Subjects
陳師曾/陳衡恪
北京風俗圖
中日交流
中西融合
新式知識分子
風俗圖
Chen Shizeng/ Chen Hengke
Beijing Customs Album
Sino-Japanese cultural exchange
Sino-Western synthesis
new intellectuals
genre painting
Type
journal article
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