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Landscape with crows
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Description
Yang Shanshen, also known as Yang Shen-sum, followed Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) and is known as one of the artists in the second generation of the Lingnan School. His technique for painting trees and rocks was to use the split tip of a worn soft goat’s hairbrush, thus leaving blank areas within ink strokes. The inscription here on the theme of crows is modified from a poem by Xie Zhen, a Ming dynasty (1368-1644) poet. It reads ‘Vast wild fields reach the shore, the Zhang river flows eastwards by the city wall. Kitchen smoke spreads through the whole city at dusk; in the warm air a crowd of crows flies by.’
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1913 - 1995
- Artist/maker
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Yang Shanshen (1913 - 2004) (artist)Yang Shanshen (1913 - 2004) (calligrapher)after Xie Zhen (1495 - 1575) (author)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 178.2 x 48.5 cm approx. (height x width)
painting 68.5 x 34.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 56 cm (length)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.272
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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. 108 on p. 80, illus. p. 81 fig. 108
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Lingnan Masters: South Chinese Painting in Transition 1800–2000
(from 6th Aug 2013 until 23rd Feb 2014)
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
Yang Shanshen, also known as Yang Shen-sum, followed Gao Jianfu and is known as one of the second generation of Lingnan School painters. His technique for painting trees and rocks is to use the split tip of a worn-out soft goat's hair brush, thus leaving blank areas within inkstrokes. The poem in the inscription is on the theme of crows, which can be seen here on the rock and in the upper branches of the tree.
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