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Find the pale tree at the lower right, its leaves picked out in white pigment, then climb the dark, layered ridges to the long inscription at the top.
Gong Xian piled up these peaks stroke over stroke until the mountains turned dense, dark and even melancholy. About twenty years after he painted it, its owner, Wu Jinming, asked him to inscribe it, and in 1670 he wrote at the top about tradition and talent: those who show off their talent stray from the old methods, he says, while those who cling to the methods lose the Dao. The Cleveland Museum of Art notes how far his style departs from his models.
hanging scroll, ink with white pigment on silk · Image: 216.6 x 57.3 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Chinese painting: Qing
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- Museum title
- Landscape in the Style of Dong Yuan and Juran
- Artist
- Gong Xian (Chinese, 1599–1689)
- Date
- c. 1650
- Medium
- hanging scroll, ink with white pigment on silk
- Dimensions
- Image: 216.6 x 57.3 cm (85 1/4 x 22 9/16 in.); Overall: 285.8 x 75.5 cm (112 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.); with knobs: 258.8 x 90.1 cm (101 7/8 x 35 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1619–1689
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.