Pu Jin

yer: China

Doğmuş: 1893

Ölüm: 1966

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Pu Jin (1893 - 1966) was a member of the Manchu imperial family and a cousin of the last emperor of China, Pu Yi, and the renowned painter Pu Ru. Pu Jin lived through the fall of the Ching Dynasty (1644-1911) and his painting of a wearily trudging horse, and the poems inscribed on the scroll by Manchu noblemen and Chinese officials who had served the fallen dynasty, draw on artistic and literary traditions in which horses could symbolize both individuals and the Chinese empire itself. Pu Jin's inscription indicates that his painting is a copy of an earlier work by the scholar-painter Gong Kai ( 龔開 , 1222-1307). Like Pu Jin, Gong Kai witnessed the fall of the dynasty under which he was born and expressed his sadness and frustration through painting. For many centuries, his depiction of a bony old horse was seen as a reflection of his own fate as an yimin (leftover subject, 遺民 ), and as a poignant representation of the ill-fated Sung Dynasty, to which he remained loyal. No longer a powerful, confident animal, the horse symbolized China in decline.