P30 武元直：赤壁図

武元直: 赤壁圖

武元直（12世紀），字善夫。金畫家，以山水見長。是卷取材蘇軾赤壁泛舟景，在名目繁多的赤壁圖中，首推最古最佳作品。拖尾趙秉文大字行書赤壁詞，元直與秉文同為金人，書畫合璧是傳世稀少的金代精品。

武元直：赤壁図

蘇東坡の名篇「赤壁賦」に主題をとる雄大な一作。屹立する絶壁の硬く鋭い筆致、これを柔らかく受ける渦まく河波の曲線。左右奥へと煙霧にかすんで遠ざかってゆく連山、これに対する手前近景の迫力の描写。名状しがたい対照の妙を見せる、稀少な金代画跡の白眉です。

Wu Yuan-chih : The Red Cliff

Wu Yuan-chih (twelfth century), Shan-fu by style name, was from the Jurched's Chin dynasty. He was a gifted painter, talented in landscape paintings. Of the many paintings on the theme of the famous poetry "The Red Cliff" composed by Su Shi (Tung-p'o), this piece is surmised to be the oldest and most eminent. It is also a valuable work among the rare examples of the Jurched's Chin dynasty painting. The colophon in large semi-cursive script proceeding the painting is also a rare example of calligraphy from the same period by the renowned contemporary literati Chao Ping-wen.