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History of Art 34 Lectures 20-23
slides from lectures 20-23
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
12/09/2011

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Title: Apricot Blossoms

Artist: Ma Yuan

Date: N/A

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: Album leaf, ink and colors on silk

 

Inscription by Yang Meizi

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Title: Budai, The Hemp-Bag Monk

Artist: Liang Kai

Date: probably post-1204

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: hanging scroll, ink and slight color on paper

 

Chan Buddhist work


Budai was an historical figure later believed to be an incarnation of Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future, and a patron-saint of children.

 

 

 

 

 

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Title: Fenggan and his Tiger

Artist: Shike

Date: 10th cent

Dynasty: State of Shu, Five Dynasties

Medium: hanging scrolls, ink on paper

 

 

 

 

Chan Buddhist Work

Done in the yipin 逸品 “untrammeled class” style.

 

 

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Title: Shakyamuni Descending from the Mountains

Artist: Liang Kai

Date: 1201-4 *attendant court painter to the Southern Song*

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk


Chan Buddhist Work

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Title: Listening To The Wind in the Pines

Artist: Ma Lin (Ma Yuan's son)

Date:1246

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk

 

Empress Yang Meizi and yongwuci: songs praising objects

A guise portrait of Emperor Lizong in the role of the Daoist master Tao Hongjing 陶弘景 (456-536) or perhaps in the role of Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 (the most famous recluse in Chinese history, 4th-5th century).

Compare: Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, 5th century.

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Title: Ten Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines

Artist: Li Tang

Date: N/A

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and some colors on silk

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Title: On a Mountain Path in Spring

Artist: Ma Yuan

Date: active ca. 1190-1225

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: album leaf, ink and colors on silk

 

inscription by Southern Song Emperor Ningzong (r. 1194-1224)

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Title: Plum Blossoms

Artist: Ma Yuan

Date: N/A

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: album leaf, ink and colors on silk

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: Pure and Remote Views of Streams and Mountains

Artist: Xia Gui

Date: active ca. 1195-1230

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: handscroll, ink on paper

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Title: The First Patriarch Tearing a Sutra

Artist: Liang Kai

Date: active ca. 1201-4

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: hanging scroll, ink on paper

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Title: The Tang-Dynasty Poet Li Bai Chanting at the Moon

Artist: Liang Kai

Date: active 1201-4

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: hanging scroll ink on paper

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Title: The Second Patriarch, Huike, Harmonizing his Mind

Artist: Shike

Date: 10th cent

Dynasty: Five Dynasties, state of Shu

Medium: hanging scroll, ink on paper

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Title: The Sixth Patriarch Chopping Bamboo

Artist: Liang Kai

Date: active 1201-4

Dynasty: Southern Song

Medium: hanging scroll, ink on paper

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Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains

Zhao Mengfu

1296

Mongol Empire

handscroll, ink and colors on paper

done for Zhao's friend Zhou Mi

Compare Dong Yuan's Wintry Grove 

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Chinggis Khan, AKA Temujin

begins conques 1206, dies in Xixia territory 1227

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Inscription from "The Emaciated Horse"

inscription by the artist, Gong Kai

Symbolizes the fall of the Song dynasty?

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Khubilai Khan and his Empress Chabi Hunting on Horseback

Liu Guandao

1280

Mongol Empire

hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk

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Portraits of Khubilai Khan and Chabi

Attributed to Anige

ink and colors on silk

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Le Livre des Merveilles, Party at the Palace in Khanbalic

Jean sans Peur (patro)

Western view of the Mongols

An illustrated tesxt that details the strange things Marco Polo saw as he traveled across Europe and Asia to China (e.g. the court of the Great Khan, Khubilai's palace at Shangdu, the White Festival, etc.)

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The Emaciated Horse

Gong Kai

1304

Mongol Empire

handscroll, ink on paper

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The Mind Landscape of Xie Youyu

Zhao Mengfu

before 1286

Mongol Empire

handscroll, ink and colors on silk

 

Xie Youyu was an official during the Eastern Jin period (317-419), who was said to retain the "mind of mountains and valleys" even while working in a corrupt court. He was depicted by Gu Kaizhi in a landscape setting, now lost. 

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The Mind Landscape of Xie Youyu

Zhao Mengfu

before 1286

Mongol Empire

handscroll, ink and colors on silk

 

Xie Youyu was an official during the Eastern Jin period (317-419), who was said to retain the "mind of mountains and valleys" even while working in a corrupt court. He was depicted by Gu Kaizhi in a landscape setting, now lost. 

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Watching Geese

Wang Xizhi

Mongol Empire

after 1301?

handscroll, ink and colors on paper

 

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Watching Geese

Wang Xizhi

Mongol Empire

after 1301?

handscroll, ink and colors on paper

 

detail

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Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains

Wang Meng

1366

Yuan Dynasty

hanging scroll, ink on paper

 

Qingbian Mountain was the home of the Zhao family, site of Zhao Mengfu's famous Gull-Qing Pavilion. 

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains

Huang Gongwang

1347-50

Yuan Dynasty

so-called Ziming (mult. inscriptions by Qing Qianlong Emperor)and Wuyon versions, both handscrolls, ink on paper

Compare to The Cut off Mountain Picture

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Enjoying the Wilderness in an Autumn Grove

Ni Zan

1339

Yuan Dynasty

Medium unknown?

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Fishermen

Wu Zhen

1352

handscroll, ink on paper

 

Compare: Zhao Gan's Early Snow on the River

Li Yu's Poem on Fishing

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Foest Chamber Grotto at Juqu 

Wang Meng

after 1368

Yuan Dynasty

after 1368

 

Done for Rizhang, depicting scenery about the Forest Chamber Grotto, one of ten caverns at the foot of West Donting Mountain, an island on Lake Tai (and source of famous garden rocks called Taihu Stones)

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River Valley at Yushan 

Ni Zan

1372

Yuan Dynasty

hanging scroll, ink on paper

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The Iris and Orchid Center

Wang Meng, ca. 1308-1385

Yuan Dynasty

handscroll, ink and colors on paper. 

 

Painted for a reclusive Buddhist monk named Gulin, retired near Hangzhou, with an essay by Wang Meng...

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The Cut-Off Mountain Picture

Huang Gongwang

Yuan Dynasty

ink and colors on silk?

 

The 17th century collector Wu Hongyu, who owned the Wuyong version of the Fuchun Mtns, commanded that the painting be thrown into the fire upon his death. It was, and this fragment is the first, scorched portion of the scroll, separately preserved at the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. 

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Water Village

Zhao Mengfu

1302 

Yuan Dynasty

handscroll, ink on paper

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The Rongxi Studio

Ni Zan

1372

Yuan Dynasty

hanging scroll, ink on paper

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Xu Bing

Book From the Sky (Tianshu)

1988

 

Disruptive Language

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Xu Bing

Book From the Sky (Tianshu)

1988

 

Disruptive Language

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Xu Bing

Book From the Sky (Tianshu)

1988

 

Disruptive Language

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Red Humor

Wu Shanzhuan

1986

 

Disruptive Language

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United Nations Series Africa Monument--The World Praying Wall

Wenda Gu

1997

Johannesburg, South Africa

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Contemplation of the World: Pseudo-Character Series

Wenda Gu

1984

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Hainan Regional Committee Political Office Propaganda Group

Warmest Cheers to the World as it Enters a New Era of Mao Zedong Thought

1969

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Hainan Regional Committee Political Office Propaganda Group

Warmest Cheers to the World as it Enters a New Era of Mao Zedong Thought

1969

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Founding the Nation

Dong Xiwen

1955

Socialist realism reinvented for China

Gao Gang Replaced by enhanced pink chrysanthemum

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Founding the Nation

Dong Xiwen

1953

Socialist realism reinvented for China

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The Tian'anmen Incident, the Goddess of Liberty and Tankman

June 1989

Beijing students protest against repressive regime and call for democratic reforms. 7000+ people are killed and thousands injured

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