P21 巨然：層巌叢樹図

巨然: 層巌叢樹圖

巨然（10世紀），江寧人。開元寺僧。南唐亡，隨李後主（李煜）降宋。畫師董源，得其正傳。所畫山水筆墨秀潤，善為煙嵐氣象，對元末四大家影響頗大。是幅布局、用筆、用墨極精，為其傑作。

巨然：層巌叢樹図

画僧巨然は董源を師として董巨と併称され、後世いわゆる南宗画の祖とされます。中央に異様ともいえる山容を描き、下方から上方へと鬱蒼とした樹林が配され、一条の小径が叢樹をぬって奥へとつづきます。全幅にうっすらと雲烟がかかり、霊気さえただよう山水画の神品です。

Chu-jan : Layered Mountains and Dense Woods

Chu-jan (tenth century) was a native of Chiang-ning (Nanking), and a Buddhist monk at K'ai-yuan temple in the kingdom of Southern T'ang. After the kingdom had fallen, he surrendered to the Sung dynasty accompanying Emperor Li Yu. He studied painting under Tung Yuan, and created a unique style of landscape painting in which he freely used the p'i-ma-ts'un ("hemp fiber") texture strokes transmitted from his master. This unequaled and most energetic work is the precursor of the Northern Sung painters Fan K'uan and Kuo Hsi, and it also gave considerable influence to the Four Great Masters of the late Yuan dynasty.