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Snow Over an Expanse of Forests
Fu Baoshi Chinese
Not on view
Mount Changbai (“Eternally White”) stretches hundreds of miles along the Chinese border with Korea. When Fu Baoshi ascended its summit on a sketch trip in the summer of 1961, he proclaimed it the most extraordinary and magnificent site he had ever visited. In the inscription, he states that he had depicted the mountain’s spectacular scenery several times, but none captured its majestic grandeur in full. Rendered in dramatically contrasting light and dark, this landscape of expansive wilderness flecked with snow is considered closest to embodying his artistic vision of the place.
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