Paintings after Ancient Masters: Autumn Landscape
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: Autumn Landscape is a 1625 unspecified by Chen Hongshou, a Chinese Orthodox School work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
In this ink painting, a lone traveler walks a narrow path beside a river. Trees with twisted trunks frame the scene. Tiny figures dot the landscape, making the space feel vast. Chen Hongshou copied old masters but added his own twist—detailed yet playful. His lines are sharp, almost cartoon-like. The river curves like a calligrapher’s brushstroke. His style feels like a mix of old rules and fresh ideas. See more of his work at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
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.…
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