Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖
Ming dynasty (1368–1644); c. 1545
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
105.8 × 31.1 cm (41 5/8 × 17 in.)
Classification
hanging scroll
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79310
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature and man's place in it. Lu Zhi, a 16th-century artist, belonged to a class of highly educated men who painted for their own pleasure. In Distant Mountains, he used multiple ground planes and suggestive voids to create a majestic vista of jagged peaks and a meandering, wide river. Through the crystalline precision of his brush strokes, the artist achieved an image of great clarity an...
About the Artist
Lu Zhi · 1496–1576
Chinese, 1495–1576