A Vague Shape of a Lady Is There in the Mountain – A Study on Xu Bei-Hong's Shangui

• Main Author: 錢上云
• Other Authors: 劉怡蘋
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/937a6d

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 藝術史學系藝術史與藝術評論碩士班 === 105 === 　　The main focus of this study – Shangui – is a work made by Xu Bei-Hong (1895-1953), an iconic Chinese artist in the 20th century, in 1943; based on this artwork, Wu Cheng-Yen (1921-1999), one of Xu's students, had also made multiple artworks based on the very work and its motif. Wu's acts have aroused the researcher's curiosity: what exactly made Xu's Shangui being especially remarkable? Can it embody Xu's stance toward art, the character of "Shangui" and its symbolic meaning? Currently, no research has approached above mentioned aspects, or even tried to identify the position of the artwork in the history of Chinese art. Therefore, this research's goal is to find the missing link regarding the topics to provide useful reference for related future studies. In this study, the researcher first analyzed the comments and the figure paintings of Xu Bei-Hong to identify the image Xu had tried to build for the character, as a model for other artworks with the same motif. Then, this study tried to identify how Xu brilliantly mixed the traditional meanings and forms of Chinese "Shangui" with Western realism and the characters of nude Venus. In this way, this research aims to prove that Shangui indeed presents Xu's artistic modernity, expression, aesthetic core value; the work is also an important practice of Xu's in transforming a "character" of Shangui to an "allegory" in order to better fulfill his ideal goal of achieving a "Chinese renaissance."