Snow: Poetic Thoughts of Mao Zedong
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Here, Fu rendered a panorama of a snowy landscape in an impressionistic manner. Mountains and rivers are conveyed with swift, scribbling strokes over blank areas of shimmering white—all full of vital energy. Mao Zedong stands on a mountaintop, taking in the vista, as a soldier behind him carries a revolutionary flag—a modern, radical twist on the old pictorial convention of a recluse seeking solace in nature with an attendant who follows him carrying a qin, or zither. This fantastic snowy scene anticipates the famous work Such Is the Beauty of Our Rivers and Mountains, which is based on the same poem.
Artwork Details
- Title: Snow: Poetic Thoughts of Mao Zedong
- Artist: Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904–1965)
- Date: dated 1959
- Culture: China
- Medium: Album leaf; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 13 3/4 x 19 11/16 in. (35 x 50 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Lent by Nanjing Museum
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art