Mandarin Ducks and Hollyhocks
Lü Ji
(Chinese, active late 15th century)
Period:
Ming
dynasty (1368–1644)
Culture:
China
Medium:
Hanging
scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions:
Image:
68 x 39 in. (172.7 x 99.1 cm) Overall with mounting: 116 1/4 x 40 1/4 in.
(295.3 x 102.2 cm) Overall with knobs: 116 1/4 x 44 1/2 in. (295.3 x 113 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Gift of Oscar L. Tang Family, 2005
Lü Ji, a professional painter from
Zhejiang Province, worked in the Southern Song (1127–1279) ink-wash style,
which had remained popular in that region through the intervening centuries. He
was summoned to be a court painter in the Hongzhi period (1488-1505) and was
given an honorary title as an officer in the Imperial Guard.
The artist's paintings, done in a dashing, descriptive style highly regarded at court, were derided by Shen Zhou (1427–1509), the leading scholar-painter of the time, as being merely works "of the hand"; Shen considered his own calligraphic drawings to be products "of the heart." he contrast between the "hand" and the "heart" points up the presumed difference between the works of the "professional" artists and those of the "scholar-amateur" painters of the Ming period.
The artist's paintings, done in a dashing, descriptive style highly regarded at court, were derided by Shen Zhou (1427–1509), the leading scholar-painter of the time, as being merely works "of the hand"; Shen considered his own calligraphic drawings to be products "of the heart." he contrast between the "hand" and the "heart" points up the presumed difference between the works of the "professional" artists and those of the "scholar-amateur" painters of the Ming period.
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