work number 931_ Liaozhai scenarios(聊齋幻境) Painting

"work number 931_ Liaozhai scenarios" describes a bizarre and fantastical space that is co-constructed by humans and ghosts. My inspiration for this work came mainly from a Chinese book called "Liaozhai Zhiyi (聊齋誌異)". “Liaozhai zhiyi “, known in English as “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” is a collection of Classical Chinese stories by Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling (蒲松齡), comprising close to 500 stories or "marvel tales". In this book, the author profoundly describes fox fairies, ghosts, and demons, and reveals between the lines that these ghosts and monsters are more sentient than human beings, to satirize the hypocrisy and cunning of contemporary people. Unlike much Chinese and Western horror fiction, the "scary stories" in Liaozhai are not intended to be frightening, but to blur the borders between the supernatural and everyday reality, using physical and psychological detail to make the move between these realms seem natural. These tales, which are "works rich in romanticism", explore the philosophical concept of qing (情), the passionate and emotional entanglement of the world, be it human or supernatural. Here is work number 931 (80 x 120 cm Oil on Canvas) made by Wei in 2019. “作品931”_2019聊齋幻境“是描述一個由人類和鬼怪共構的詭異奇幻的空間。張政維創作這幅作品的靈感主要來自中國一本書《聊齋誌異》。《聊齋誌異》是清初蒲松齡創作的近五百篇靈異故事集。作者在這本書中深刻描寫了狐仙、鬼和妖，而字裡行間也透露出這些鬼怪比人還要有情義，以此諷刺當代人們的虛偽和狡詐。與許多中西恐怖小說不同，《聊齋》中的”恐怖故事”並不是為了令人恐懼，而是模糊超自然與日常現實之間的界限，利用身體和心理細節使這些境界之間的移動顯得自然。這些故事探討了”情”的哲學概念，即人間或超自然世界的激情和情感糾葛，富有浪漫主義的意涵。