Landscape / Huang Yue (aka Huang Yueh)
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.22.2
- Title
- Landscape
- Artist
- Huang Yue (aka Huang Yueh)
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1750-1841
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1831
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Ellen and Richard Laing
- Dimensions
- 28 cm x 31.6 cm (11 in. x 12 7/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- album or album leaf
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- This painting (and the one adjacent) comes from an album of four landscape paintings.
- Subject Matter
- It was made in the last decade of the scholar-official Huang Yue’s life, when the Qing dynasty was in decline and government corruption rampant. The two trees growing from oddly shaped rocks allude to historical Chinese paintings depicting twin pines. This tree was often a metaphor for a man of integrity, and a pine damaged by frost and wind suggested his suffering from political oppression. Between the rocks are clusters of thin bamboo leaves that seem to grow without a proper trunk. Since bamboo often represents a gentleman of rectitude, the painting may express the struggle of righteous scholar-officials during the late Qing dynasty.
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- image-making processes and techniques
- natural landscapes
- plants
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- writing (processes)
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3300 x 2701
- File Size
- 115 KB
- Record
- 2006/2.22.2
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-2.22.2/2006_2.22.2.jpg
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"Landscape; Huang Yue (aka Huang Yueh)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-2.22.2/2006_2.22.2.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.