View of a gorge with three boats
Xie Zhiliu, also known as Zhuangmuweng, is a landscape painter from Jiangsu province, a connoisseur who has written extensively on the masters of the Northern Song dynasty (AD 960-1127). His own landscapes make extensive use of colour within the classical limits of blue, green and buff pigments, which he sometimes brightened by mixing with Western watercolours. In this painting, he uses intensified classical colours throughout, even for some of the dots, to accentuate the forms of the landscape.
Details
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Title
View of a gorge with three boats
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Artist/maker
Xie Zhiliu (1910 - 1997) -
Associated place
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Date
1979 -
Material and technique
ink and colour on paper; mounted on layers of paper, framed with juan silk pieces; backed with layers of paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
frame 102 x 52 x 1.9 cm (height x width x depth)
mount 97.9 x 48.2 cm sight size (height x width)
painting 66.8 x 35 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1995.261
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Catalogue text
This composition, in which boats on a river are viewed from above a gorge, is a recurrent one in guohua painting of the mid-twentieth century. Xie Zhiliu uses intensified classical colours throughout, even for some of the dian (dots) which are generally added in ink, also seen here, to accentuate the forms of the landscape.
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