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... by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; a copy of the painting exists in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The work depicts a waterside pavilion in which a figure stands with his right hand seemingly resting on the balustrade. This article offers a new interpretation of the painting's...

... monochrome works. In recent years, however, many varieties of bronzes have been unearthed with polychrome ornamentation including sacrificial vessels, figural sculptures, mirrors, lamps, weapons, and personal ornaments. This article summarizes and interprets the current evidence for painting on early Chinese...

... in a process called tianmo 填墨 or kuotian 廓填. The final product thus simulated an original piece of calligraphy; characters appeared to be composed of intersecting brushstrokes in black against a plain ground, though in fact they were painstakingly traced and in-painted ( Figure 6 ). 4 Figure 6...

... in other mortuary contexts. Two armored officers, each with hands joined and pressing a sword on the ground between his feet ( Figure 13a ), are reminiscent of figures painted at the gate of a late-fifth- or early-sixth-century brick tomb at Xuezhuang 學莊 in present-day Dengzhou 鄧州, about 100 miles south...

... experiment in ink painting to initiate this effort would not have been lost on Jin Cheng. In an inscription appearing adjacent to the image of an ice-block mover ( Figure 8 ), Jin Cheng projects the virtuous loftiness of the literati class onto the anonymous figure: Let the world's attitude be hot...

... Painting Academy Zand Daoist figure painting in the mid-Ming court. Yet his name is little known in current Ming painting Past discussions of the Ming Painting Academy typically 4 history. This is not surprising...

... challenges us to reconsider tory of early Chinese painting.What happened in the genre the validity of the dominant narrative of early Chinese of landscape has no real parallel, for example, in figure paint- painting—a narrative that might be summed up as ing. Writing in the eleventh century, Guo Ruoxu...

... again. A similar warping frame, somewhat different in arrangement but with the same elements, can be found in at least one Song painting ( Figure 2 ). 11 It requires a clear space around the trestles at either end. Perhaps Shen Yuan, a specialist in architectural detail, drew on his understanding...

... : Hakkojae , 2006 . Li, Yingshun 李英順 . Chaoxian Bei xue pai shixue yanjiu 朝鮮北學派實學研究 [ A study of the Northern school's practical learning in Chosŏn Korea ]. Beijing : Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe , 2011 . Lippit, Yukio , and Gregory Levine , eds. Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting...

... Ming master named Huang Xigu (act. scrolls, found under Wang’s arms, which were probably 15th c with small figures approaching a temple set in originally in his sleeves; mounted on these handscrolls a traditional Mi-style landscape (ibid., pl. 12); and an are twenty-four paintings and one piece...

... extant images of the Thousand-armed Man˜ - jus´rı¯ are attributed to mid-Tang paintings at Dunhuang. In one representative painting, the most characteristic features of the Thousand-armed Man˜ jus´rı¯ are the arms that fan around his body and the begging bowls supported in each hand. A tiny figure...

... in the funerary space and had a predominantly iconic tomb deserves special attention. A small mural of five significance, have been considered for their potential grotesque figures painted in an eleventh-century tomb function as the focal point of the worshipping rite.4 in Xuanhua Hebei province, offers a rare...

.... Fig. 14. Li Keran, Landscape, 1932. Ink painting. From Yifeng 9 (1934): 52. known for his ability to impart new life to traditional Chinese figures (Fig. 15).71 Apart from its divergence from his earlier paintings, Li Keran’s representation...

... is certainly more likely to have been regarded as a 13th-century free copy of the Taipei paint- extant in 15th-century Korea than any of his famous ing, as some details, for instance in the rendering of figure paintings. In fact, Sin Sukju acknowledges that figures and ropes, suggest that the painter did...

... Luo was only moderately successful in this effort, for hers is hardly a well-known name in the history of art and literature. She must have been fairly prolific in the early years of her widowhood, but now only five paintings of plant subjects and an album survive ( Figures 1–3 ). 6 Fortunately...