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Mountain Dwelling (Shan ju tu 山居圖),

ca. 1986

Li Huasheng 李華生, Chinese, 1944–2018
Chinese
Modern period, 1912–present
2011-152
Li Huasheng is widely acknowledged as one of the leading landscape artists of his generation. Early on he studied traditional painting, but during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) art was sanctioned only in the service of the state, and traditional painting and references to the past were unacceptable. Consequently, for Li Huasheng to show the houses of the people without straight walls and to reference an idyllic past through the use of blue and green colors was pioneering and daring for its time.

Information

Title
Mountain Dwelling (Shan ju tu 山居圖)
Dates

ca. 1986

Maker

Li Huasheng 李華生

Medium
Sheet; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 138.6 x 69.7 cm. (54 9/16 x 27 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jerome Silbergeld, Michelle DeKlyen, and Family
Object Number
2011-152
Place Made

Asia, China

Inscription
Artist inscription at top: 山居圖作詩拾首不如改詩一首少陵有新詩改屬自長哈之句[ ]作此圖再三因出於[ ]巴人華生
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist, "Jiang shang ren" 江上人, circular relief, upper left Artist, [ ][ ], rectangular relief, lower right
Culture
Chinese
Period
modern Chinese styles and periods
Type
paintings, chinese painting styles
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product)
Subject
mountains, trees, pine trees, dwellings, goats, cliffs

–2011 Jerome Silbergeld and Michelle DeKlyen (Princeton, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2011.

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