中国国画：马远的山水画

 吴君梅 – Kwanmui Ng

这幅马远的山水画很安静。画的左边有一棵非常大的松树，正面和背边也有更多的树木。松树的后面有几座比较高的山。而且，你可以看到树木的后边还有几个传统房子。在左下角有两个男人，一位坐在地上，另一位站在他的背后，他们俩都看着月亮。

马远是1160年出生的。他的家乡是杭州。他家人都是很有名的画家。马远是个非常有影响力的画家，使别的中国传统画家都想模仿他的画。马远的儿子也成为了一位画家。我选了这幅画因为我一看到这张画就觉得很漂亮，有非常平静的感觉。

除了平静感觉以外，我觉得这张画还有很深的意思。 这张画很重视自然，因为马远画的树木、山、雾都比那两个男人大得多。再说，那两个人不是在中间的，他们只在左下角。他们俩看起来好像很舒服，就安安静静地看月亮。如果我在画里的话，我也会想跟他们一起看月亮，享受大自然。在我们的生活中，我们常常忙得不得了，没有时间放松，也常常忘了欣赏大自然。

Chinese Traditional Painting: Ma Yuan’s Landscape Painting

This painting by Ma Yuan is very peaceful. On the left side of the painting there is a very big pine tree. The front and the back have even more trees. Behind the pine trees, there are a couple of relatively tall mountains. Furthermore, you can see that behind the trees there are some traditional style houses. In the lower left corner, there are two men, one who is sitting on the floor, while the other stands behind the other man. They are both looking at the moon.

Ma Yuan was born in the year 1160. His hometown was Hangzhou. He came from a family of well-known painters. Ma Yuan was a very influential painter; other Chinese traditional painters imitated his style. Ma Yuan’s son also became an artist. I chose this painting because once I saw this painting, I thought it was very pretty and had a very calm feeling.

In addition to a calm feeling, I also thought this painting had a profound meaning. This painting emphasizes nature, because the trees, mountain, and fog that Ma Yuan drew engulfed the two men by a large degree. Furthermore, those two men weren’t in the middle, they were only in the bottom left corner. They look very relaxed, peacefully watching the moon. If I were in the painting, I would want to also watch the moon together with them and enjoy Mother Nature. In our lives, we are often extremely busy that we don’t have time to be relaxed nor have the time to appreciate Mother Nature.