Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 3
1654
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1654
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 3 is a 1654 unspecified by Fan Qi, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a quiet mountain scene: a man sits on a rock, watching clouds drift over green peaks. Reeds sway by a lake, and trees split the water into two shades of blue. This painting is part of an album—like a book of small artworks. Each page tells a different story, but this one feels still, as if time stopped. The artist wrote a poem on the page too, describing the same view. If you like this calm, look up more paintings from china, qing dynasty (1644-1911).
Fan Qi's painting for the third leaf of the album evokes Wang Wei's poetic line: Sit and watch the clouds rising. Xu Fang's calligraphic colophon reads: Green are the reeds, the sun not yet set; Tree foliage and mountain colors divide the lake into two halves. A solitary recluse sits upon a flat bluff, Occasionally observing white clouds rising from the mountain tops.
A waterfall descends between two mountains; the series of cascades is hinted by the careful placement of intermittent rocks.
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