蓝色的风景

怀恩 Albert Kwan

这是一幅很漂亮的画。画家在画儿里用了很多清淡的颜料。他很喜欢用蓝、绿和黄这些颜色。画儿里存在很多关于大自然的风景，有山、树，云和一条小溪在一座桥底下流过来。我很喜欢背景里的山和云。画儿里还有人在一块儿骑马。

 仇英是这幅画的画家。他出生在太仓（现在的江苏）。他在苏州跟周臣学过画。仇英喜欢用蓝和绿来画画儿。在明朝，某些有钱的人家付钱叫他画花儿、花园、宗教题目和风景。因为他的画画的天赋很强，仇英被认为是明朝的四大画师之一。

这幅画儿叫 Emperor Minghuang’s Journey to Sichuan. 这幅画儿是一条明朝丝绸画的一部分。这上面画的是唐明皇和他的人马从长安逃避唐代中的安史之亂。

我觉得画家在他的画儿里很重视大自然。画中的山水很突出 , 把骑马的人们画得比较微小。对我来说，这幅画儿表现出人们在大自然中的自卑和大自然的伟大和美妙。我很喜欢在地平线画的山和云彩。(382字)

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 his is a very beautiful painting.  The artist used a lot of subtle, light colors in his painting.  He seems to like using blue, green, and bronze-yellow.  The painting includes a lot of elements of nature.  It includes mountains, trees, clouds, and a small river running under a bridge.  I love the mountains and clouds in the background.  There are also men on horses appearing to travel as a group.

Qiu was a Chinese painter.  He was born in Taicang (太仓 – now Jiangsu Province).  He studied painting under Zhou Chen in Suzhou.  Ying likes to paint in the green-and-blue style.  He painted with the support of wealthy patrons, creating images of flowers, gardens, religious subjects, and landscapes in the fashions of the Ming Dynasty.  His talent allowed him to become regarded as one of the Four Great Masters of the Ming Dynasty.

The painting is titled Emperor Minghuang’s Journey to Sichuan.  This painting is just a section of a much larger Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) Chinese handscroll painting on silk.  It shows Tang Minghuang, or Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, fleeing the capital Chang’an away from the violence of the An Shi Rebellion that began in the year 755 during the mid Tang Dynasty.

I think that the painter put a lot of emphasis on nature in the painting, which draws the viewer’s attention away from the horsemen.  To me, it shows the men as insignificant when it comes to the beauty of nature, no matter what the situation that the men are in.  I love how the artist paints the mountains and clouds in the horizon.  It expands the boundaries of the painting, rather than centering the attention on the horsemen.