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Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies (Distant Mountains), Lu Zhi, 1540, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature and man's place in it. Lu Zhi, a 16th-century artist, belonged to a class of highly educated men who painted for their own pleasure. In Distant Mountains, he used multiple ground planes and suggestive voids to create a majestic vista of jagged peaks and a meandering, wide river. Through the crystalline precision of his brush strokes, the artist achieved an image of great clarity and refinement. W. L. Mead Fund Size: 105.8 × 31.1 cm (41 5/8 × 12 1/ 4 in.) Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

明 陸治 枚乘獨坐圖 軸|Mei Cheng Sitting Alone by Lu Zhi, Asian Art

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Gift of Herbert and Jeanine Coyne, 1991 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies (Distant Mountains), Lu Zhi, 1540, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature and man's place in it. Lu Zhi, a 16th-century artist, belonged to a class of highly educated men who painted for their own pleasure. In Distant Mountains, he used multiple ground planes and suggestive voids to create a majestic vista of jagged peaks and a meandering, wide river. Through the crystalline precision of his brush strokes, the artist achieved an image of great clarity and refinement. W. L. Mead Fund Size: 105.8 × 31.1 cm (41 5/8 × 12 1/ 4 in.) Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

by Lu Zhi, Asian Art

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Gift of Michael B. Weisbrod, 1989 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies (Distant Mountains), Lu Zhi, 1540, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature and man's place in it. Lu Zhi, a 16th-century artist, belonged to a class of highly educated men who painted for their own pleasure. In Distant Mountains, he used multiple ground planes and suggestive voids to create a majestic vista of jagged peaks and a meandering, wide river. Through the crystalline precision of his brush strokes, the artist achieved an image of great clarity and refinement. W. L. Mead Fund Size: 105.8 × 31.1 cm (41 5/8 × 12 1/ 4 in.) Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

明 陸治 種菊圖 軸|Planting Chrysanthemums by Lu Zhi via Asian Art

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and pale color on paper

Edward Elliott Family Collection, Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1986 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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