论吴历的老格

On the Old-Age Style of Wu Li

中国文人艺术视"老"境为最高的审美理想,绘画中有"画中老境,最难其俦"的说法,而"人书俱老"成为书法艺术的崇高境界。本文以清初画家吴历为例来讨论这一问题。作为一位文人画家,吴历出入宋元,以中国道禅哲学为基础,并融合他晚年所服膺的天主教思想,创作出"思清格老"的独特艺术风格,其艺术之老格中体现出深邃的人文价值内涵。

Old-age style was regarded as the supreme aesthetic ideal in Chinese literati art. In traditional Chinese paintings, there goes a saying that it is most difficult to reach the aesthetic realm of old-age in a painting. In addition, both the old age of calligraphers and the old-age style of their calligraphic works became a sublime aesthetic realm of Chinese calligraphy. This paper elaborates on the old-age style by taking Wu Li, a painter of the early Qing Dynasty, for example. As a literati painter, Wu Li learned from the paintings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, based himself on Taoist philosophy and Zen Buddhist philosophy, and combined his art with Catholic thought that he sincerely admired in his remaining years, creating a unique artistic style of clear thinking and old age. What＇s more, the old-age style in his paintings embodied profound humanistic values.