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This is the third of 23 volumes, probably from a reprint of the 1812-1817 Japanese edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the method for painting rounded peaks in the level distance. The image on the right here is the one that concludes Xu Bing’s The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll [LI2007.77]. It is an example of how to paint distant mountains, and is used by Xu Bing to depict countryside. This gives a feeling of the scroll composition moving back to countryside after passing through a more urban environment.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 90 on p. 174, p. 151, illus. p. 174 fig. 90
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