天津博物馆自新馆建成以来，依托本馆丰富馆藏，通过梳理明清主要地域性绘画流派，举办了一系列主题绘画展，在业界和广大观众间赢得良好口碑。此次《晚明绘画作品展》将打破地域限制，集中展示晚明时期60余件（套）绘画精品，为观众勾勒出该时期绘画的基本特征与历史面貌。
    展览将依照山水、花鸟、人物三个单元组织展品。第一部分“山水画”将突出表现晚明时期地域性画派纷呈的特点，主要展示以董其昌、赵左为代表的“松江画派”，以蓝瑛为首的“武林画派”和以吴彬、项圣谟为代表的其他山水画家的作品，表现这一时期山水画创作的变化与发展。第二部分“花鸟画”将着重介绍徐渭大写意水墨花卉画取得的卓越成就，并概括讲述周之冕、孙克弘、蓝瑛等画家在这一领域的贡献。第三部分“人物画”将重点展示尤求、丁云鹏、曾鲸等画家在历史故事、道释人物以及肖像画创作中的成就与突破，同时还将为观众详细介绍陈洪绶笔下线条沉着劲炼，面貌高古脱俗、又富有深意的人物画作品。
    为了让广大观众对晚明时期绘画创作有更为全面和客观的认识，此次展览特向故宫博物院商借两件绘画珍品，分别是徐渭的《墨花九段图卷》和吴彬的《普贤像轴》，代表了晚明花卉和人物画创作的新成就。两件展品展期为2016年2月2日到4月24日。
Paintings of the Late Ming Dynasty （晚明绘画作品展）
“Late Ming Dynasty” refers to the period from Wanli to Chongzhen reigns (1573-1644), when the Chinese painting gained remarkable achievements.

When “Wumen School” outshone others during the middle Ming Dynasty, the art circle in later times of the same dynasty featured the coexistence of various regional painting schools. In this period, some changes were made in “Wumen School” on the basis of its painting traditions; “Songjiang School” rapidly rose for its literati paintings; “Wulin School” organically combined the style of literati painting and professional brushwork, that made the paintings then be appeal to both refined and popular taste hence attracted much attention.

It is even more notable that the late Ming paintings of landscape, flower-bird and figure evolved side by side. For instance, Dong Qichang’s study on painting theory and practices led to another historical top of literati landscape painting, Xu Wei initiated the vigorous freehand style flowers painting with simple and frank expression, and the exaggerate figures under Chen Hongshou’s brush boasted something exactly fresh and new of unworldly artistic connotation. The painters at that time with the above three as their representatives jointly moulded the diversified painting art of the late Ming Dynasty and exerted profound influence over the Chinese painting of later dynasty and even the modern time.

For the past few years, Tianjin Museum has curated several original exhibitions, managing to give a general introduction of the main regional painting schools of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Distinctively from the earlier ones, this exhibition, focusing on the timeline of “Late Ming Dynasty”, selects exhibits from the museum’s rich collections and sorts them into three subjects of landscape, flower-bird and figure, in hope of profiling the features of the paintings of the time.

Many thanks to Palace Museum who gives great support to the exhibition.