中国学者在思考瀑布 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	中国学者在思考瀑布
品名（英）	Chinese Scholar Contemplating a Waterfall
入馆年号	1996年，1996.104
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Soga Shōhaku【1730 至 1781】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1767 - 公元 1833
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	图像: 61 3/4 x 68 3/8 英寸 (156.8 x 173.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅山景中，人类的存在只是大自然浩瀚的一个次要方面，它借鉴了东亚艺术中的一个原型主题，该主题最早由宋代画家在10世纪提出。然而，在这里，大自然的景象与其说是宏大的，不如说是不祥的，人类在与他们奇怪的活跃环境和谐相处的那一刻似乎更危险。在左边前景的悬崖边，一位绅士坐在那里凝视着远处的瀑布，没有意识到像龙一样在他身上拱起的巨大飞溅。在右边，一个旅行者在一座摇摇欲坠的桥上穿过山沟。他似乎正朝着最右边的寺庙走去，但这条路消失在充满光线的薄雾中。远处贫瘠的山顶上的树木骨架突出了广阔景观的令人生畏的本质 Soga Shōhaku因其对传统主题的古怪处理而臭名昭著，他和他的追随者创作了许多类似的作品。他是越来越多的画家之一，他们的作品风格挑战了占主导地位的卡诺派的正统风格，该派得到了德川幕府的赞助。由于作品的整体刚性和签名风格的离心力，可以肯定地假设这件作品是由追随者而非大师本人创作的。
介绍（英）	This mountain landscape, in which the human presence is but a minor aspect of the vastness of nature, draws on an archetypal motif in East Asian art first formulated by Song-dynasty painters in the tenth century. Yet here the vision of nature is more foreboding than grand, and the minute humans seem more in peril than in harmony with their strangely animated environment. At the edge of a precipice in the left foreground a gentleman sits contemplating a distant waterfall, unaware of the improbably huge splash that arches up over him like a dragon. To the right a single traveler crosses a mountain ravine on a precarious bridge. He seems to be making his way toward the temple at far right, but the path disappears in light-filled mist. In the distance skeletal trees on barren mountaintops accentuate the forbidding nature of the vast landscape. Soga Shōhaku was notorious for his eccentric treatment of conventional themes, and he and his followers created a number of similar compositions. He was one of a growing group of painters who worked in styles that challenged the orthodox manner of the dominant Kano school, which enjoyed the sponsorship of the Tokugawa shogunate. Because of the overall stiffness of the composition and the strained eccentricity of the signature style, it is safe to assume that this work was created by a follower rather than the master himself.