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SHITAO (ZHU RUOJI). Landscape

Landscape. Artist: Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) (Chinese, 1642-1707). Culture: China. Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 17 1/2 in. (17.5 x 44.5 cm). Date: dated 1699.
In the inscription on this fan, Shitao sets forth his theory of painting, "the single stroke," or "the painting of oneness (yihua)":
On a windy, rainy, spring day, I am happy I have no visitors; my hand is free, my mind relaxed and cleansed. The ancients called it yihua, the "single stroke": a thousand hills, ten thousand valleys, people, bamboo, trees,a single brushstroke and all is completed. On one level, yihua constitutes a very practical concept: a complete design begins and finishes with the single brushstroke. On a metaphysical level, it suggests that "myriad strokes are reunited in oneness" through the mind and hand of the artist and through the artist's spiritual communion with nature.

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Author:

SHITAO (ZHU RUOJI) (1642-1707)

Title:

Landscape

Caption:

Landscape. Artist: Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) (Chinese, 1642-1707). Culture: China. Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 17 1/2 in. (17.5 x 44.5 cm). Date: dated 1699. In the inscription on this fan, Shitao sets forth his theory of painting, "the single stroke," or "the painting of oneness (yihua)": On a windy, rainy, spring day, I am happy I have no visitors; my hand is free, my mind relaxed and cleansed. The ancients called it yihua, the "single stroke": a thousand hills, ten thousand valleys, people, bamboo, trees,a single brushstroke and all is completed. On one level, yihua constitutes a very practical concept: a complete design begins and finishes with the single brushstroke. On a metaphysical level, it suggests that "myriad strokes are reunited in oneness" through the mind and hand of the artist and through the artist's spiritual communion with nature.

Technique/material:

Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on gold-flecked paper

Period:

Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Museum:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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Model: No - Property: No
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Image size:

4728 x 2286 px | 30.9 MB

Print size:

40.0 x 19.4 cm | 15.8 x 7.6 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

ALBUMS • ASIA • ASIAN ART • BOOKS • CHINA • COSTUME • FANS • FOLDING FAN MOUNTED AS AN ALBUM LEAF; INK AND COLOR ON GOLD-FLECKED PAPER • GOLD • INK • METAL • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • PAINTINGS • PAPER • QING DYNASTY (1644-1911) • SHITAO (ZHU RUOJI)