Posted on 04/01/2019 1:13:09 PM PDT by mairdie
Zhang Sengyou was a court painter during the Six Dynasties period. He was active from 490 A.D. to 540 A.D. Besides being the director of the imperial library, and in charge of all painting related affairs for Emperor Wu of Liang, Zhang Sengyou held high military and administrative positions. His work is considered one of the four standards of traditional Chinese painting. The music is Qupai Lianzou - Qupai Legato, from the Taoist Music Orchestra.
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Thanks mairdie.
Thank You for posting mairdie.
They read and play the music backwards too. :)
Thanks. I have missed your postings.
While I recognize it is no longer stringently observed, I suggest reversing the dating symbol.
A.D. (Anno Domini: In the Year of the/Our Lord) goes before the date, whereas B.C. (Before Christ) goes after it.
Think of the old song by Zager and Evans, “In the Year 2525”; one would not say, “2525 in the Year.” Similarly, one would not say, “540 in the Year of the/Our Lord.”
Just an idea - I'd like to see what the artist was talking about in his annotations and chop marks, so, take this video, let an AI like Watson look at it and produce an English translation and then tell it to mask out the Chinese characters & replace them with English text. Would also like to see the translation on Wang Ximeng - "A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains" scroll that you posted last year.
Thanks for making such excellent videos and thanks for sharing them with us !
I’ve been working on a bio of my grandmother to go along with the illustrations I’ve done to her small book of aphorisms. It’s taken longer than I expected. Of course. I seem to have a mental block on AD/BC. The old song was a good idea.
It really shows why the work of this artist is one of four Standards in traditional Chinese painting. He’s absolutely exquisite. What a brilliant idea about the translation. What I started to do, and then stopped in frustration, was try to identify all the planets and constellations and label them. Mercury is the man writing. Saturn is the man on the oxen. Mars is on the donkey.
I admit I was after something quick and dirty. We’ve been working for WEEKS! to try to get a good pan at the same time we get good zoom on a different scroll, and our failure is driving me batty. The file was enormous. I pick up the best art images at Chinese sites using the google translate frequently to track a particular artist or painting. And Premiere just doesn’t want to deal with a big file that is so long and I don’t want to reduce quality, so husband has been doing mathematical calculations and it hasn’t been going well.
I’m a poor artist. Mother had a sure and simple art deco line and tried so hard to teach me. But in art classes I was more apt to use continuous feather strokes and my pastels tended to be smudgy. I’ve been turning some of my old pieces into posters and am enjoying them on the wall again, and I admit I dream of trying to work again.
Good luck with the Bio.
Yeah, if you truncate it, it is easier to contrast: In the year 540 versus 540 in the year.
I keep a randoms file, like the drawer into which everything that fits ends up, and EASIEST is to put your post into it so that, when I’m confused, you can just remind me again - remotely.
Don’t know why I’m having so much trouble with the bio. Maybe because she’s such a flaming Democrat. But the weather is getting better, so I’m hoping to get to Brown University to see if they have any further info on her and to offer them my research. They’ve got her first small book in special collections, and I own her second. But I did recently add a bit of info as I found where she was in an almost 2 year gap in an article showing her in a live-in position at a new settlement house in Chicago. One frustration is that the historical society in Canon City has copies of her newspaper, but I can’t get xeroxes or any such as they won’t copy them. Hmmmm. Wonder if these days anyone there might consider taking photos with their phone. Have to call again and suggest that.
WOW!!!
Now I know why you have been scarce lately! GREAT JOB!
I really like that music selection. The detail in the art is stunning.... and it is interesting to see the almost Egyptian like animal heads on human bodies.
Thanks for sharing that marvelous little gem of a video!
It’s been pretty complicated. Some of these images are so large they can be hard to work with. I’ve got one more done, one that is currently overwhelming me, and one that is causing me some frustration.
The other finished one is a set of inks by Yan Liben (AD 600–673) and his brother, Yan Libe. They’re almost caricatures, and the music has that same quality.
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