Paintings after Ancient Masters: A Lohan [after Guanxiu]
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: A Lohan [after Guanxiu] is a 1625 unspecified by Chen Hongshou, a Chinese Orthodox School work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a thin monk with long eyebrows, a wispy beard, and a robe that looks like crumpled paper. His hands are tucked inside wide sleeves, and his eyes seem to stare right through you. Chen Hongshou painted this monk after an older Chinese artist, Guanxiu. Guanxiu’s originals were said to look so strange they scared demons away. Chen kept the weirdness—sharp angles, stretched fingers—but made it feel quieter, almost like a doodle in the corner of a notebook. If you like this, look up other works in the subject china, ming dynasty (1368–1644).
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.…
Chen Hongshou's gnarled and age lohan , a disciple of Buddha, was inspired by paintings made 700 years earlier by Buddhist monk Guanxiu.
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