《游鱼图》轴，清，李方膺绘，纸本，墨笔，纵123.5厘米，横60厘米。

　　画幅右边款题：“三十六鳞一出渊，雨师风伯总无权。南阡北陌槔声急，喷沫崇朝遍绿田。晴江李方膺。”钤“晴江的笔”白文印、“虬仲”朱文印。

　　《游鱼图》是李方膺的代表作。画中春水方生，欢腾的鲤鱼争相穿越于河水间，它们或直冲入水底，或徜徉于水面，或摇头摆尾，或展鳍跳跃，在寒冷的冬天之后尽情享受着春天河水复苏带来的喜悦。画面生动传神而富有情趣。作者用笔洗练，虽无一笔背景，却使人透过温和的春水仿佛看到了江南明媚的春日景象，达到了意到笔不到、景在画外的艺术效果。

　　根据画面的风格和题诗，可以推断此图是李方膺罢官（乾隆十三年，1748年）之后的作品。画中作者以游鱼自拟，隐喻他久困樊笼，终得返归自然，表现了作者向往自由生活的思想及其品格情操。明清文人常以“四君子”题材直抒胸臆，表现闲雅高洁的品行。李方膺也善画梅，而在晚年，他选择了游鱼为题材表达自己的思想感受，跳出了文人画的樊篱，立意新颖，扩大了文人画的表现领域和审美情趣，他的创新也正表现出“扬州八怪”对绘画的突出贡献。

　　在画面位置经营上，此图也与众不同。5尾姿态不同的游鱼组成一条反“S”形曲线，鱼头、鱼尾相互呼应，既有形式上的美感，又渲染了腾跃而出的气氛。右边题诗一贯到底，字体浑厚雄肆，增强了画面的整体感，从而成为诗、书、画完美统一的佳构。

 

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"Tour Fish Map" axis, Qing Dynasty, Li Fang rendering, paper, ink, 123.5 cm in length, 60 cm in transverse.

The title on the right side of the painting reads: "Thirty-six scales make a difference, but Rain Master Feng Bo has no right. The voice of the Moors in the north of Nanqian is very urgent, and the spraying of foam is worshipful all over the green fields. Li Fangyao, Qingjiang." Jun's "Qingjiang's Pen" in white and "Qizhong" in Zhu.

"Tour Fish" is Li Fangying's representative work. In the picture, the jubilant carp race across the river. They either rush straight into the water, or wander on the water, or wag their heads and tails, or sprint their fins and jump, enjoying the joy of Spring River recovery after the cold winter. The picture is vivid and interesting. The author uses his pen to wash and practice. Although he has no background, he makes people see the beautiful scenery of spring in the south of the Yangtze River through the gentle spring water, and achieves the artistic effect of the scenery beyond the painting.

According to the style of the picture and the inscription of poems, it can be inferred that this picture was created after Li Fangying's dismissal of officials (the thirteenth year of Qianlong, 1748). In the painting, the author uses swimming fish as a metaphor for his long trapped cage and finally returns to nature, which shows the author's yearning for free life and his character and sentiment. In Ming and Qing Dynasties, literati often expressed their minds directly with the theme of "Four Gentlemen", expressing their leisurely, elegant and noble character. Li Fangying is also good at painting plum, but in his later years, he chose swimming fish as the theme to express his thoughts and feelings, jumped out of the barrier of literati painting, innovative ideas, expanded the performance field and aesthetic interest of literati painting, and his innovation is also showing the outstanding contribution of "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" to painting.

This picture is also different from others in terms of location management. Five swimming fish with different postures form an anti-S-shaped curve. The head and tail of the fish echo each other, which not only have formal aesthetic feeling, but also render the atmosphere of leaping out. The inscribed poems on the right side are consistent to the end, with bold and bold fonts, which enhance the overall sense of the picture, thus becoming a perfect and unified structure of poems, books and paintings.