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Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to Read Chinese Paintings
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南宋 馬遠 高士觀瀑圖 冊頁
Ma Yuan (act. ca. 1190–1225)
Scholar Viewing a Waterfall
Album leaf; ink and color on silk; 9 7/8 x 10 1/4 in. (24.9 x 26 cm)
Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973 (1973.120.9)
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Ma Yuan, a fourth-generation member of a family of painters, was a leading artist at the Southern Song Painting Academy in Hangzhou. A city of unsurpassed beauty, Hangzhou was graced with pavilions, gardens, and scenic vistas. In this album leaf, which shows a gentleman in a gardenlike setting, the jagged rhythms of the pine tree and garden rock contrast with the quiet mood of the scholar, who gazes pensively into the bubbling rapids of a cascade.
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