Mountain Light, Cloud Shadow / Chang Ku-nien
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.107
- Title
- Mountain Light, Cloud Shadow
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- (Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
- Medium and Support
- unmounted scroll, ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1974
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Taiwan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Taiwan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Cheng-Yang and Mrs. Shirley Chang
- Dimensions
- 56.6 cm x 115 cm (22 5/16 in. x 45 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- ink painting
- Physical Description
- The use of light ink to depict the hills and remote mountains was to present the misty and dreamlike Dayu Mountain. Chang applied the wash to creat a sense of wet atmosphere.
- Subject Matter
- The painting depicts a poetic scene in the Dayu Mountain in Taiwan. The colophon in this painting was inspired by a famous Ming dynasty literati painter--Dong Qichang (or Dong Xiangguang as used by Chang). This colophon implies a literati painting tradition of "in painting there is poetry, and in poetry there is painting" since Tang dynasty.
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- descriptors
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by form
- settlements and landscapes
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3583 x 1771
- File Size
- 225 KB
- Record
- 2006/1.107
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.107/2006_1.107.jpg
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"Mountain Light, Cloud Shadow; Chang Ku-nien." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.107/2006_1.107.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
