Chinese Landscapes from the Ashmolean Collection
(from 9th Feb until 21st Jul 2013)Explore the continued tradition of Chinese landscape painting in this complement to the Xu Bing show.
Buildings and figures in a mountainous landscape
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Description
Zheng Wuchang was one of the leading art historians of the early 20th century. His paintings are conservative and typically detail in their inscriptions the paintings and art historical theories to which they relate. This particular inscription reads: ‘On ten thousand cliffs and a thousand peaks, ‘jades’ accumulate brightly; On the small bridge and the bend of harbour, [I] look for poems quietly. Describing snow without using white powder pigment, this is a technique from the Song period’.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (place of creation)
- Date
- 1947
- Artist/maker
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Zheng Wuchang (1894 - 1952) (artist)Zheng Wuchang (1894 - 1952) (calligrapher)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 212.6 x 81.2 x 3 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 168.5 x 62.7 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.285
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 122 on p. 89, p. 9, illus. p. 89 fig. 122
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Zheng Wuchang was one of the leading art historians of the early twentieth century. His paintings are conservative and typically name in their inscriptions the paintings and art historical theories to which they relate.
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