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Yi Yuanji (; Wade-Giles: I Yüan-chi) (c. 1000, Changsha, Hunan〔(I Yüan-chi )〕 – c. 1064) was a Northern Song Dynasty painter, famous for his realistic paintings of animals. According to Robert van Gulik, Yi Yuanji's paintings of gibbons were particularly celebrated.〔Van Gulik, Robert Hans (1967), The gibbon in China: An essay in Chinese animal lore, E. J. Brill, Leiden, Holland. There is a brief summary at ()〕 〔Thomas Geissmann, (Gibbon paintings in China, Japan, and Korea: Historical distribution, production rate and context" ) . ''Gibbon Journal'', No. 4, May 2008.〕 The 11th-century critic Guo Ruoxu (郭若虚) in his "Overview of Painting" (图画见闻志, ''Tuhua Jian Wen Zhi'') tells this about Yi's career:〔English translation by Van Gulik, in Van Gulik (1967), p. 79〕〔Guo Ruoxu's text is also in (this article ) 〕 He spent months roaming the mountains of southern Hubei and northern Hunan, watching roebucks (獐鹿) and gibbons (猿狖) in their natural environment.〔 In 1064, Yi Yuanji was invited to paint screens in the imperial palace. Once this job has been completed, the Yingzong Emperor, impressed, commissioned him to paint the "Picture of a Hundred Gibbons", but unfortunately the artist died after painting only a few gibbons.〔〔 A few of his other gibbon paintings have survived, and Robert van Gulik, quite familiar with the behavior of this ape, comments on how naturally they look in the pictures.〔 His other work includes depictions of deer, peacocks, birds-and-flowers and fruits-and-vegetables; many of them are kept in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.〔 The "Monkey and Cats" painting is especially charming.〔(MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART ), Time Magazine, May 6, 1957〕 Van Gulik identifies the monkey as a macaque.〔 This painting was featured on a 2004 "Year of the Monkey" stamp from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.〔(Feline Philately: Cats on stamps )〕 The image of Yi Yuanji, with his intimate knowledge of nature, has attracted attention from modern Chinese painters.〔Painting by modern artist Fan Zeng (范曾) ("Yi Yuanji playing with a monkey (易元吉戏猴图)" ), painting by the modern Chinese artist Fang Zeng (范曾)〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yi Yuanji」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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