Landscape
1726
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1726
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape is a 1726 unspecified by Gion Nankai, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a serene landscape with a mountain pavilion and a brushwood gate. The inscription on the painting is a poem by Tang Yin, which adds a layer of depth to the scene. It suggests a sense of isolation and solitude. To learn more about this style of painting, visit the museum where this work is housed, the Cleveland Museum of Art.
A teacher of Confucian ethics, the Chinese philosophical system focused on social harmony and familial responsibility, Gion Nankai was also a painter. Ike Taiga (池大雅) (1723–1776) was among his students. Nankai inscribed this landscape with one of 24 poems for painting subjects composed by the scholar and painter Tang Yin (唐寅) (Chinese, 1470–1524). It reads as follows: The mountain pavilion is desolate, visitors are rare. Mud patches the brushwood gate; leaves patch my clothes. Rising not from the bamboo bed, my head like snow. Already without intent, I abandon questions of Zen.
Read the full account in the museum source.
