Bamboos cover a wine-shop by the bridge.
Many competitors tried to concentrate on the wine-shop as the center of the picture.There was one man,however,who painted on一‘Y a bridgea bamboo grove by its side,and hidden in that grove,on-ly a shop-sign bearing the character“wine”but no wine-shop at ail.And this picture won because the wine-shop was hidden in the imagination.
Another subject given was a line from Wei Ingwu’s poem:
At the deserted ferry,a boat drifts across by its 1f.
The poet had already used the method of suggestion in conveying the atmosphere of silence and desolation by showing that the boat.1eft alone’drifted across by the force of the current,but the painter camed the method of suggestion further.The winning picture was one which conveyed this feeling of silence and desolation by drang a brd resting on the boat,and another one about tO perch 0n it.The presence of the birds near the boat suggests that the boat Wfls desert-ed and no human beings were about.
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