Paintings after Ancient Masters: Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan
1625
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1625
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan is a 1625 unspecified by Chen Hongshou, a Ming Painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a quiet river winding past bare trees and a few tiny houses on a hill. Chen Hongshou painted this centuries after the artist he copied—Ni Zan—lived. He kept the old style but made it his own, like a musician playing an old song with a new twist. The trees look almost like calligraphy, thin and precise. If you like this, look up china, ming dynasty (1368–1644) to see the art that inspired him.
The twenty paintings in this double-album by Chen Hongshou include landscapes, figures, and flowers. It also has one leaf featuring a woman, an often-used subject not found in the other albums from the latter part of his career. His late works are wonderful summations of Chen's peculiar and quirky art--archaistic, hyper-refined--but without accompanying shallowness or sentimentality. His figures and landscapes in the late albums are miniaturized, not unlike the small Chinese gardens, or the carefully selected small table rocks or old roots used for contemplation to see the world in miniature.…
Ni Zan (1301–1374) was known for his sparse, monochromatic ink landscape paintings.
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