Blue Mountains and White Clouds / Artist Unknown, China
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.157
- Title
- Blue Mountains and White Clouds
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
- Object Creation Date
- 14th century (or later)
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Carter
- Inscription
- Inscription of artist: Ch'ien-li po-chü (fake); Additional inscriptions and seals; Southern Sung Palace Seal: Yü-fu t'u-shu; K'o Chiu-ssu (1290-1343, from T'ai-chou, Chekiang): Yün-chên chai, K'o-shih ch'ing-wan; Ch'ên Ting (17th century): Ch'ên Ting P'ing-sheng chên-shang; Probably Shên Fêng (18th century, from Chiang-yin, Kiangsu): Ch'ien; Unidentified: Ch'iao-shih, Hsia-ju,
- Dimensions
- 26.35 cm x 27.5 cm (10 3/8 in. x 10 13/16 in.)
- Century
- 14th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- The green mountains in this fan painting appear truly vertical and solid. The clouds, too, in spite of their rounded edges appear to be frozen in space. A pine tree bends over the side of the cliff, with its foliage over a traveler in white crossing a bridge below.
- Subject Matter
- Mountains in Chinese culture have long been recognized as majestic, where deities, spirits and immortals could reside. The blue and green mountains in this scroll evoke Tang period (618-907 CE) painting style, as well as the famous twelfth century painter Zhao Boju. Zhao Boju was famous for his exquisite paintings making use of malachite green and azurite blue mineral pigments, and this work is signed with his alternate name Qianli Boju. The signature was probably added by someone who wanted to sell the painting for a higher price than could be fetched by an anonymous work.
- Rooted into the mountainside a “greeting-guest pine” bends over the traveler, welcoming the traveler the pavilion above.
- Primary Keywords
- bridge (built work)
- clouds
- landscapes
- mountains
- pavilion (garden structure)
- pine trees
- rocks
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- evergreens
- garden structures
- inorganic material
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by location or context
- single built works by specific type
- transportation structures
- transportation structures by form
- trees
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
- Rights
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 819 x 855
- File Size
- 62 KB
- Record
- 1970/2.157
- Link to this Item
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"Blue Mountains and White Clouds; ; Artist Unknown, China." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1970-sl-2.157/1970_2.157.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 02, 2024.
