萧云从的《九歌图》与神话形象

Xiao Yuncong's Nine Songs Paintings and Mythological Images

历代关于《九歌》的图绘创作,不仅体现了处于不同时期的各个画家对九歌的多样解读,同时也展现出了画家们的精湛的技艺和风格。作为姑熟画派创始人的萧云从画师,其《九歌图》基于画家自身深厚的艺术修养和渊博的文史知识以及对艺术创造的独创性追求,在因袭前人、谨遵诗作原意的基础上,创造了生动传神的九歌系列神话形象,复原了屈原笔下的巫风楚韵,使楚国神话形象得到了更为广泛的流传。

The paintings about Nine Songs in different dynasties not only reveal the different understanding and interpretation on Nine Songs of different painters in different times,but also show their virtuosity and different styles.Xiao Yuncong,the founder of the Gushu school of painting,with the profound artistic skill and a breadth of erudition as well as the pursuit of the originality of art creation,he created vivid mythological images about Nine Songs on the basis of following his predecessors and insisting the original meaning of the poetry.His works reproduce the witchcraft culture that described by Qu Yuan,so that it is beneficial to the widespread dissemination of mythological image of Chu.