【藏品名稱】：林良百鳥朝鳳
[collection name]: Lin Liang
【藏品類別】：字畫
Collection category: calligraphy and painting
【藏品簡介】：林良(1428年～1494年)字以善，明代著名畫家，南海(今廣州)人。擅畫花果、翎毛，著色簡淡，備見精巧。其水墨禽鳥、樹石，繼承南宋院體畫派放縱簡括筆法，遒勁飛動，有類草書，墨色靈活，為明代院體花鳥畫的代表作家，也是明代水墨寫意畫派的開創者。傳世作品有《灌木集禽圖》、《山茶白羽圖》、《雙鷹圖》等。
[introduction to collection]: Lin Liang (1428-1494), a famous painter of Ming Dynasty, was born in Nanhai (now Guangzhou). He is good at painting flowers, fruits and feathers. His ink bird, tree and stone, inherited the Southern Song Dynasty courtyard style painting school's indulgent and simple brushwork, vigorous and flying, cursive style, flexible ink color, is the representative writer of Ming Dynasty courtyard style flower and bird painting, and the founder of Ming Dynasty freehand brushwork painting school. Works handed down from generation to generation include the painting of gathering birds with shrubs, the painting of white plumage of Camellia, the painting of double eagles, etc.
明初洪武至弘治的百余年內， 占據畫壇主位的是皇家畫院的宮廷繪畫。時代特色和風格成型主要體現在宣德、成化、弘治三朝。尤其是花鳥畫，突破“院體”程式，出現了工筆重彩、水墨寫意、設色沒骨等多種風格，并有所創新。其中水墨寫意的開派人物便是林良。他創作的“文人畫化”的水墨寫意花鳥畫，使明代“院體”花鳥出現了新的生機。雖然在明之前也有水墨寫意花鳥，但仍以勾染為主流形式，而且宋“院體”花鳥在元代仍保持著很大的影響力。
During the hundred years from Hongwu to Hongzhi in the early Ming Dynasty, the court paintings of the Royal Academy dominated the painting world. The characteristics of the times and the formation of style are mainly reflected in Xuande, Chenghua and Hongzhi dynasties. In particular, the flower and bird painting broke through the "courtyard style" program, and appeared a variety of styles, such as fine brushwork and heavy color, ink freehand brushwork, color without bone and so on. Among them, Lin Liang is the pioneer of freehand brushwork. He created the "literati painting" of freehand brushwork of flowers and birds, which brought new vitality to the "courtyard style" of flowers and birds in Ming Dynasty. Even before Ming Dynasty, there were also freehand brushwork flowers and birds, but the main form was gouran, and the "courtyard style" flowers and birds in Song Dynasty still maintained a great influence in Yuan Dynasty.
明代的水墨寫意花鳥畫，由林良開派，以后耕耘其間者接踵而至， 如沈周、陳淳、徐渭等，一步步將寫意法推向臻境，并成為明代花鳥畫最流行和最富成就的一種形式，終匯就明清泱泱大觀的寫意花鳥畫風。林良無疑起了先導作用。他在花鳥畫的發展史上，是不可或缺的重要人物。百鳥朝鳳圖，長121cm，寬61cm。百鳥構圖準確，千姿百態，飛鳴飲啄等不同姿態的禽鳥，形體堅實，羽翼豐滿，羽毛層次分明，真實而又生動。且鳳為百鳥之首，雍容華貴。收藏價值較高！
The freehand brushwork of flowers and birds in Ming Dynasty was initiated by Lin Liang, and then came one after another, such as Shen Zhou, Chen Chun and Xu Wei. They gradually pushed the freehand brushwork to a new level, and became the most popular and successful form of flowers and birds in Ming Dynasty, and finally merged the grand style of freehand brushwork of flowers and birds in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Lin Liang undoubtedly played a leading role. He is an indispensable figure in the history of flower and bird painting. It is 121cm long and 61cm wide. The birds with different postures, such as flying, singing, drinking and pecking, are solid in shape, plump in wings, distinct in layers, real and vivid. And the Phoenix is the first bird, elegant. High collection value!
