英文摘要 |
Painting and poetry are complementary to each other-where painting fails, poetry may speak for it and vice versa. As such, owing to the commonality they share, painting and poetry are complements; and because of the difference in their modes of expression, painting and poetry may serve as intertexual references. This paper focus on Su Shi's twenty-one poems inscribed on paintings, with aims to explicate Su Shi's devotion to produce brilliant and exquisite imagery through his works-both in paint and in pen. His enlargement of artistic mood are characterized by: 1) "ping-yuan and mi-yuan" marked by endlessness and boundlessness; 2) metonymy, through which the macro-panorama is epitomized in micro-scenery; 3) abundant implication and rich connotation; 4) complement of "xu" and "shi", which creates another artistic dimension. The four features may be generalized into two: 1) to speak for the unspeakable, that is, poems inscribed on paintings dismantle the demarcation between space and time, serving as a supplement to painting. Based on the response-inviting structure of painting, poems inscribed on paintings can also convey the "unsaid" concept in painting, such as the interpretation of "ping-yuan and mi-yuan" and complement of "xu" and "shi"; 2) creating unique artistic mood, meaning that poem inscribed on painting is more than merely copying painting, rather, it attempts to reach out for infinity via the presentation of imagery and concepts. That the macro-panorama is epitomized in micro-scenery is the best example. Wu Longhan's saying that "where paint fails, pen prevails" and Chen Deqian's "the absent of the painter is the present of the poet" best exemplifies this idea. |