“示病之容”与“忘言之状”——敦煌石窟维摩诘画像的“神情”探微

Abstract:According to the history of painting，Gu Kaizhi is the most successful among the earliest painters who created Vimalakirti statues in China. Its success lies in the perfect performance of Vimalakirti’s appearance of illness and forgetting words. Both of them refer to facial expression and become the yardstick for evaluating the later Vimalakirti portraits. However，in previous studies，scholars did not give due attention to this core issue，which reflects the artistic characteristics of Gu Kaizhi’s portrait of Vimalakirti. Compared with the general situation of the Vimalakirti，the part of the Vimalakirti preserved in Dunhuang Grottoes is clear and legible，which provides a favorable basis for us to explore the look problem. Therefore，on the basis of combing the contents of Gu Kaizhi’s portrait of Vimalakirti in the literature，this paper analyzes the expression of the portrait of Vimalakirti in Dunhuang. Then it reveals the spread and evolution of Gu Kaizhi’s samples，as well as the relationship between artistic expression and Buddhist scripture translation and aesthetic acceptance.

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