李铁拐真人 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	李铁拐真人
品名（英）	The Immortal Li Tieguai
入馆年号	1986年，1986.267.9
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Su Renshan【1814 至 1850】【中国人】
创作年份	公元 1814 - 公元 1849
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	45 1/2 x 15 3/4 英寸 (115.6 x 40 厘米)
介绍（中）	苏仁山是一个真正的怪人，生前几乎默默无闻，但在二十世纪被发现。苏轩出生在广州以南，接受过古典教育，但未能通过省级公务员考试。他放弃了对官方职业的追求，在二十二岁时投身于绘画。1842年，一场家庭纠纷导致苏离家五年。当他于1848年返回时，他被父亲谴责为不孝顺，并被监禁在当地的监狱中，并于1850年去世。苏贞轼在1840年代后期创作的看似无害的不朽作品《李铁盖》，传达了艺术家对自己的才华不被认可而日益感到沮丧。李铁盖（铁拐杖的李）是道教万神殿传说中的八仙之一。有一次，当李在身体外迁移时，他看似死气沉沉的形态被发现并火化。当李回来时，发现他的尸体不见了，他被迫住在一个残废的乞丐的尸体里。在苏的幽默描写中，不朽者睡着了，抱着膝盖，铁杖在他旁边，草帽的帽檐像光环一样勾勒着他的身体。一个葫芦，象征着不朽，因为里面有一个神奇的天堂，躺在地上。葫芦和神仙都是正面呈现的，它们的透视缩短形式表现为一系列同心轮廓。
介绍（英）	A true eccentric, Su Renshan was virtually unknown during his lifetime but was discovered in the twentieth century. Born just south of Canton, Su was given a classical education but failed the provincial civil-service examination. He gave up the pursuit of an official career and, at age twenty-two, devoted himself to painting. In 1842 a family dispute caused Su to leave home for five years. When he returned in 1848, he was denounced as unfilial by his father and imprisoned in the local jail, where he died in 1850. Su's seemingly innocuous Immortal Li Tieguai, painted in the late 1840s, conveys the artist's growing frustration at having his talents go unrecognized. Li Tieguai (Li of the Iron Crutch) was one of the legendary Eight Immortals of the Daoist pantheon. Once, when Li was transmigrating outside his body, his seemingly lifeless form was discovered and cremated. When Li returned and found his body gone, he was forced to inhabit the body of a crippled beggar. In Su's humorous depiction, the immortal is shown sleeping, clutching his knees, his iron staff beside him, the brim of his straw hat framing his body like a halo. A gourd, symbol of immortality because of a paradise magically concealed within, lies on the ground. Both the gourd and the immortal are presented frontally, their foreshortened forms appearing as a series of concentric contours.