Lotus and Lilies
Artist/Maker
Liú Hǎisù 刘海粟 / 劉海粟
(Chinese, 1896–1994)
Date1970
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsImage: 53 × 26 5/8 in. (134.6 × 67.6 cm)
Mount: 64 5/8 × 31 in. (164.1 × 78.7 cm)
Mount: 64 5/8 × 31 in. (164.1 × 78.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Shih-Yen Wu (OC 1954) Family
Object number2016.28.4
Status
Not on viewINSCRIPTION: LOTUS AND LILIES
彤雲赤霧生绿房，朝霞变蕊珠粉光。 白玉入泥不滿盎，羽蓋裹露明月璫。 濁水一石亂鼃黽，鑿池五丈如斗方。 萍根科斗淂自在，荷芰明年出水央。 宋梅聖俞题重臺蓮詩. 庚戌重阳后三日,静遠老人劉海粟畫
"Out of the red clouds and crimson fog is born the green flower bud, Dawn turns it into a pistil shining with pearlescent pink. A white lotus in mud not large enough to fill a dish plate, Dew enwrapped by petals like feathers in the moonlight. A stone in the turbid water accompanied by a frog’s croak, A 16-meter pond-like square calligraphy paper. Tadpoles swimming freely at the roots of duckweed, The coming year will see the lotus flower spring up from the center of the water.
From A Poem of Chongtai Lotus by Méi Shèngyú of the Song dynasty. Painted three days after the Double Ninth Festival in the year of Gengxu (1970) by the Old Man of Distant Peace, Liú Hǎisù"
Translated by Milin Zhou (OC 2019)
Exhibition History
彤雲赤霧生绿房，朝霞变蕊珠粉光。 白玉入泥不滿盎，羽蓋裹露明月璫。 濁水一石亂鼃黽，鑿池五丈如斗方。 萍根科斗淂自在，荷芰明年出水央。 宋梅聖俞题重臺蓮詩. 庚戌重阳后三日,静遠老人劉海粟畫
"Out of the red clouds and crimson fog is born the green flower bud, Dawn turns it into a pistil shining with pearlescent pink. A white lotus in mud not large enough to fill a dish plate, Dew enwrapped by petals like feathers in the moonlight. A stone in the turbid water accompanied by a frog’s croak, A 16-meter pond-like square calligraphy paper. Tadpoles swimming freely at the roots of duckweed, The coming year will see the lotus flower spring up from the center of the water.
From A Poem of Chongtai Lotus by Méi Shèngyú of the Song dynasty. Painted three days after the Double Ninth Festival in the year of Gengxu (1970) by the Old Man of Distant Peace, Liú Hǎisù"
Translated by Milin Zhou (OC 2019)
Riding the Strong Currents: 20th and 21st Century Chinese Paintings from the AMAM Collection
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 24, 2023 - June 11, 2023 )
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