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Shepard Alonzo Mount’s Fish brings attention to the forms and surfaces of its subject. Look at the differences between reflected light, shadow and the markings of the fish. The painting rewards moving from the complete arrangement toward smaller details, then stepping back to see how those details hold the composition together.
Shitao uses changes of ink and brushwork to make rocks, plants and distant hills feel distinct. Written inscriptions share space with the painted landscape, while areas of untouched paper become water or mist. Compare the dense marks of trees and crags with the open stretches around them.
Painted architecture separates scenes and brings people together. Move from intimate encounters in the Tales of a Parrot to Timur distributing gifts.
Soga Shōhaku stages gatherings and stories within expansive painted settings. In these works, figures meet among rocks, trees and buildings, sometimes spread across a folding screen. Distinct poses and changes of scale keep the human activity visible even when mountains and landscape occupy much of the image.
Song Xu’s landscape album records places around the city of Wuxing, including lakes, peaks and monasteries. Small buildings, fields and routes help describe how people inhabited these settings. Written notes accompany the views, giving them the character of a painted guide to local scenery. Compare the measured rows of fields with the textured mountains and the dense groups of trees on higher ground.
A prince meets his father and a king shares a remarkable fruit. Discover narrative scenes painted on the pages of the Tales of a Parrot.
Susan Torrey Merritt’s view of an anti-slavery picnic spreads a public gathering across a wooded clearing. Small groups, tables and flags give the scene its rhythm. Watercolor, ink and pieces of painted and metallic paper share the surface, bringing different kinds of marks to this view of people assembling in Massachusetts.
Follow the water through a coastal landscape. This painting was made near Kjærgaard on Jutland’s west coast in 1888, according to the museum’s object record.
Tani Bunchō connects painted landscape with the world of poetry and scholarship. A figure and an attendant approach a waterfall beneath towering rocks; geese descend into a quieter river view. His imagined portrait of the scholar Dazai Shundai shifts from landscape to character, using robe, posture and facial outline to organize the image. Inscriptions make writing part of the viewing experience.
Cattle in open fields and a cowshed, deer-park trees and camels in a Tunisian street. Look at the relationship between animals, their surroundings and the light.
Thomas Hicks’s A Friendly Warning brings several men together in a plainly furnished room. Their hands and postures carry the conversation, while the stove, tools and animals add quieter points of interest. Look from one figure to the next and decide where the warning might begin, without losing sight of the room around them.
Tsubaki Chinzan brings plants close enough to compare their individual shapes. Broad banana leaves, loquat fruit, a sliced lotus root and a small bird appear in these works on paper. Restrained color sits alongside darker ink outlines, and inscriptions occupy the open areas of each composition. Compare the weight of a large leaf with the lighter marks used for petals, slender stems and feathers.
An evening party, a conversation and a mother reading to a child. These paintings turn social and family life into arrangements of figures, furniture and light.
Sunlight falls across a floor; a figure turns away. Rooms and city architecture draw attention to space, surfaces and the pauses between daily activities.
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