Flowers and Insects
1692
ink
paper
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
1692
ink
paper
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Flowers and Insects is a 1692 ink by Chai Zhenyi, a Baroque work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
This painting shows flowers and insects in a natural setting. The artists who created this piece were two sisters, and their collaboration is interesting because they had different painting styles. They were also poets, and their work was influenced by the cultural atmosphere of their hometown. You can learn more about the style of this painting by looking at the work of artist: Chai Zhenyi.
This sensitively idyllic glimpse of nature is the collaborative work of two sisters, who resided in east coastal Hangzhou. The city’s mild climate and beautiful scenery attracted generations of intellectual elite. Fostered by that cultural ambience, both sisters became renowned as poets and painters, but their painting styles were quite distinct. Whereas Chai Jingyi specialized in semi-abstract images of nature that affirmed ideals of self-expression, Chai Zhengyi was most renowned for closely observant studies such as this. Depicted together with asters and Asiatic dayflowers, the fruiting…
Art Institute of Chicago, To Predict the Future: Auspicious Omens in Premodern Chinese Paintings, Dec. 8, 2018 -March 24, 2019
Exhibitions: "Views from Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists 1300-1912". Exh, cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1988. [Cat. authors: Marsha Weidner, Ellen Johnston Laing, Irving Yucheng Lo, Christina Chu, and James Robinson] cat. no. 30.
Read the full account in the museum source.
A painter during China’s Qing dynasty under Emperor Kangxi, Chai Zhenyi worked in ink and color on paper to capture delicate life in motion.
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