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Desolate stretches of light mist amidst endless waters (淡烟漠漠水漫漫),

2017

Tai Xiangzhou 泰祥洲, born 1968, Yinchuan, China
2018-98.5
Using brush, ink, and silk, Tai alludes to the history of Chinese landscape painting during the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), when the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, tributaries of the Yangtze in southern China, became popular themes in painting and poetry. The intention of the earlier artists was not to depict an actual view of the river, but rather to capture the expressive moods associated with the setting. Their brushstrokes not only created a landscape, but also demonstrated the artist’s thoughts and emotional state, the xinyin, or “imprint of the mind.”

Information

Title
Desolate stretches of light mist amidst endless waters (淡烟漠漠水漫漫)
Dates

2017

Maker

Tai Xiangzhou 泰祥洲

Medium
Sheet; ink on silk
Dimensions
28.7 × 67.3 cm (11 5/16 × 26 1/2 in.) frame: 43.5 × 95.2 × 1.9 cm (17 1/8 × 37 1/2 × 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Tai Xiangzhou,Tan Shengguang, Du Pengfei, Yin Tongyun, and Hu Ying, in honor of Wen C. Fong, Class of 1951 and Graduate School Class of 1958, for his instruction at Tsinghua University, Beijing
Object Number
2018-98.5
Place Made

Asia, China, Beijing

Signatures
Signed: Xiangzhou
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist’s seal
Culture
Chinese
Period
modern Chinese styles and periods
Type
drawings
Materials
silk (textile), ink
Techniques
drawing (image-making)
Subject
rivers, poems

2017–2018 Tai Xiangzhou, born 1968, with Tan Shengguang, Du Pengfei, Yin Tongyun, and Hu Ying (Tsinghua University, Beijing), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2018.

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