Summer Mountains (after Dong Yuan [active c. 937–75])
1290–1354
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Medium
hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
Dimensions
257.4 × 71.2 cm · image: 131.7 × 55.6 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Cornelia Blakemore Warner Bequest, by exchange, and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Accession Number
1992.1
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About this artwork
This monumental landscape is drawn in softly rounded strokes with darker lines frequently applied on top of lighter ones. This technique recalls one of the suggestions included in a collection of the artist's writings known as Secrets of Landscape Painting: The most difficult thing in painting is using the ink. The artist begins by using dilute ink and builds it up to the point where it begins to look right, then uses dense, black ink, applied fairly dry, and washes of deeper-toned ink. This tec...