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Riding a Donkey Beneath Bamboo
Fu Baoshi Chinese
Not on view
This hanging scroll belongs to a set of four that represents Fu Baoshi’s earliest surviving work. Created for a private patron, each scroll bears a long inscription that identifies Fu’s source of inspiration—in this case, Mi Fu (1051–1107)—and reveals his art-historical approach to painting and fondness for the literati tradition. It reads:
Gao Kegong [1248–1310] was the most remarkable among those following the style of Mi Fu. Dong Qichang [1555–1636], who grew up in Yunjian [present-day Shanghai], once remarked, “Later artists modeling after Mi Fu could only pile up the ink dots without imparting openness and closeness [as contrast]. The result was not satisfactory.” Baoshi.
—Trans. Anita Chung
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