Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 3) / Chang Ku-nien
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.104.3
- Title
- Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 3)
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- (Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1967
- 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
- 152 cm x 82.5 cm (59 13/16 in. x 32 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- A panoramic view of the highway cutting across the Tarako Gorges, laid out in four connecting hanging scrolls.
- Inscription: “sublime and bright--what opens in this enormous curtain (the connected hanging scrolls).”
- Subject Matter
- The “axe-cut” texture stroke methods of the Southern Song artists Li Tang and Ma-Xia school are used to capture the precipitous nature of the mountains. In painting this actual scene, Chang emphasizes the synthesis of both objective visual appearance and subjective qualities raised by the subject in his mind. The artist rearranges in the painting what was seen with his eyes in order to convey the most impressive qualities of the place and the feelings it evoked in him – as it is noted in the artist’s own inscription: “sublime and bright--what opens in this enormous curtain (the connected hanging scrolls).”
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- buildings and the land
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- landforms by shape or position
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- natural landscapes
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- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
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- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scroll paintings
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation spaces
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- writing (processes)
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2018 x 3740
- File Size
- 437 KB
- Record
- 2006/1.104.3
- Link to this Item
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"Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 3); Chang Ku-nien." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.104.3/2006_1.104.3.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.