Poetic brushwork relates a narrative
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Poetic brushwork relates a narrative

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A farewell painting by Wen Zhengming for his friend Wang Chong. "All I'm seeing is a mighty bird who's about to soar and vanish from my aging sight," Wen told Wang, who's leaving for an exam held by the Ming Dynasty government, the passing of which would allow him to continue his dream of becoming a court official. "One cannot have a deep understanding of literati painting without recognizing one of its most popular and poignant themes — the failure by members of the group to pass the official exam and enter bureaucracy," says Pang. "While a tendency did exist among literati painters to be more inward-looking and self-focused, some, as evidenced by this Zhu Ruoji painting, had indeed looked beyond their own small world," says Pang. "According to the writing of one of his contemporaries, wherever he went, Su always carried in a pouch paper and brush, which allowed him to jot down any image that had caught his eye and tickled his heart — a scurrying crab for example," says Pang.

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Poetic brushwork relates a narrative
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Poetic brushwork relates a narrative

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A painting by Shen Zhou inspired by his own collection of poems on fallen flowers. Three years later in the spring of 1505, an anguished Shen, who called himself "a wretched old tree with nothing for support", composed a number of poems — 30 to be exact — and collectively titled them Poetry of the Fallen Flower. "In that sense, …

Poetic brushwork relates a narrative
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Poetic brushwork relates a narrative

China Daily  

A farewell painting by Wen Zhengming for his friend Wang Chong. "All I'm seeing is a mighty bird who's about to soar and vanish from my aging sight," Wen told Wang, who's leaving for an exam held by the Ming Dynasty government, the passing of which would allow him to continue his dream of becoming a court official. "One cannot …

Poetic brushwork relates a narrative
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Poetic brushwork relates a narrative

China Daily  

A painting by Shen Zhou inspired by his own collection of poems on fallen flowers. Three years later in the spring of 1505, an anguished Shen, who called himself "a wretched old tree with nothing for support", composed a number of poems — 30 to be exact — and collectively titled them Poetry of the Fallen Flower. "In that sense, …

Interpreting art in a different light
6 months, 1 week ago

Interpreting art in a different light

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A rubbing of a likeness of celebrated Qing-dynasty painter Wang Hui, done by his portraitist friend Yu Zhiding upon Wang's departure from Beijing. A notion central to the illusion of depth in Western painting, perspective was brought into traditional Chinese painting — the depiction of architectural landscape in particular — by missionary artists around the same time, and was quickly …

Interpreting art in a different light
6 months, 1 week ago

Interpreting art in a different light

China Daily  

A rubbing of a likeness of celebrated Qing-dynasty painter Wang Hui, done by his portraitist friend Yu Zhiding upon Wang's departure from Beijing. A notion central to the illusion of depth in Western painting, perspective was brought into traditional Chinese painting — the depiction of architectural landscape in particular — by missionary artists around the same time, and was quickly …

Brush up on the past
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Brush up on the past

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A painting from Huang Binhong's Flowers Album, on display at the show Immortal Legacy in Beijing. Nearly seven decades after his death, Huang Binhong's art remains visually unappealing and just as difficult to comprehend as ever for many members of the public. Now hailed as one of the greatest ink artists of 20th-century China, Huang created a distinctive vocabulary of …

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