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Goddess Crossing the Xiang River
Fu Baoshi Chinese
Not on view
Fu’s original conception of the goddess of the Xiang River was based on two poetic lines from the Nine Songs:
Gently the wind of autumn whispers;
On the waves of the Dongting Lake the leaves are falling.
As his style became increasingly forceful and vigorous in the 1960s, Fu introduced a new sense of monumentality to this theme, exploring the creative tension between the all-powerful forces of nature and delicate human emotion.
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