Summer Mountains
Attributed to Qu Ding (active ca. 1023–ca. 1056)
Handscroll; ink and light color on silk; 17 7/8 x 45 3/8 in. (45.3 x 115.2 cm)
Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family
Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973 (1973.120.1)


How is nature depicted in Chinese landscape painting?

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By traveling visually through a Chinese landscape painting, you become an active participant in an artist's creation. Describe your experience of viewing Summer Mountains by imagining yourself as one of the small figures within this vast landscape, and write what you are doing, seeing, smelling, hearing, and feeling on this summer evening. Now imagine your description as a colophon to this work of art.

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