Paintings after Ancient Masters: Scholars in a Garden
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: Scholars in a Garden is a 1625 unspecified by Chen Hongshou, a Ming Painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows two scholars sitting in a garden. The men wear loose robes and long hats. A rock and a small tree frame them. One man holds a book. The other looks at a scroll. Chen Hongshou paints tiny details like wrinkles in robes and blades of grass. His style is old-fashioned but playful. The colors stay soft except for bright red on a robe. Try looking up Chen Hongshou 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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