Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 4) / Chang Ku-nien

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Accession Number
2006/1.104.4
Title
Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 4)
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Artist Nationality
Chinese
Artist Life Dates
(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
Object Creation Date
1967
Object Creation Place
Asia (continent)
Taiwan (nation)
Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Creation Place 2
Taiwan (nation)
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).”
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2012 x 3748
File Size
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Record
2006/1.104.4
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"Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 4); Chang Ku-nien." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.104.4/2006_1.104.4.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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