Landscape / Huang Yue (aka Huang Yueh)

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Accession Number
2006/2.22.2
Title
Landscape
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)
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.
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Image Size
3300 x 2701
File Size
115 KB
Record
2006/2.22.2
Link to this Item
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 April 10, 2024.
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