Travelling in Autumn Mountains: Landscape in the style of Guo Xi (Kuo Hsi) / Artist Unknown, China
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.354
- Title
- Travelling in Autumn Mountains: Landscape in the style of Guo Xi (Kuo Hsi)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink on silk
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Dunlap Cahill
- Dimensions
- 181 cm x 47 cm (71 1/4 in. x 18 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- A group of travellers moves along a path at the foot of the mountains that grow upward, dominating the majority of the pictoral space. The common technique using small black dots occurs throughout the painting, accenting mountain edges, tree branches and roots. A building can be seen peeking out from behind the mountains in the lower portion of hte painting.
- Subject Matter
- It is common in Chinese ink painting to create works in dialogue with past masters. The dark jagged edges of the pine trees and rounded looming mountaintops recall the style of master painter Guo Xi and his famous work Clearing Autumn Skies over Mountains and Valleys. Active in the Northern Song Period (960–1217), Guo Xi was passionate about the need for painters to be in communion with nature in order to truly represent space and changing phenomena.
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- descriptors
- geography
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by function
- plants
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2002/2.354
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2002-sl-2.354/2002_2_354.jpg
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"Travelling in Autumn Mountains: Landscape in the style of Guo Xi (Kuo Hsi); Artist Unknown, China." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2002-sl-2.354/2002_2_354.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024.