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Bamboo on rockfront

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Bamboo on rock

  • loan

  • Description

    Bamboo (Bambuseae) is one of the 'Four Gentlemen' (bamboo, orchid, plum blossom, and chrysanthemum) in Chinese gardens. This plant has been endowed with the characteristics of tenacity, uprightness, and humility, as it has a hollow heart and grows upright. Fu Shuda (died c.1960) shows excellent use of ink on this depiction of bamboo and rock, which demonstrates distance and chiaroscuro by ink in different tones. This painting may be an illustration of Zheng Xie's (1693-1766) famous poem on bamboo growing out of rocks, admiring the toughness of this plant.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Asia › China › Sichuan province (possible place of creation)
    Date
    1940s
    Artist/maker
    Fu Shuda (active 1930s - 1960s) (artist)
    after Zheng Banqiao (1693 - 1765) (author)
    Material and technique
    ink on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 101.8 x 76.3 x 2.9 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 61.8 x 45.2 cm sight size (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI2022.401

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 35 on p.77, illus. p.77 fig. II.35

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    • currently in research collection

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