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Paysage aux gibbons (détail)

ca. 1570
Not on view
Le gibbon, natif des montagnes boisées du sud de la Chine, n’est connu au Japon que grâce à la peinture et à la poésie. Le cri de l’animal est assimilé au noble esprit de la solitude. La tradition taoïste lui prête une force vitale supérieure. Les moines zen japonais appréciaient particulièrement les gibbons peints par le moine chinois Mu Qi (actif v. 1245). À la fin du XVe siècle, les représentations picturales du gibbon à la manière de Mu Qi étaient devenues un sujet de prédilection dans la décoration des paravents. Ici, cette chaîne de gibbons qui tentent bien inutilement d’atteindre un reflet de la lune, symbole de l’esprit éclairé, illustre un paradoxe zen fondamental.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Titre: Paysage aux gibbons (détail)
  • Artiste: Sesson Shūkei, Japonais, v. 1504–v. 1589
  • Période: Époque de Muromachi
  • Date: v. 1570
  • Technique: Paire de paravents à six panneaux ; encre sur papier
  • Dimensions: 157,5 x 348 cm chacun
  • Crédits: Achat, fonds Rogers et The Vincent Astor Foundation, fondation Mary Livingston Griggs et Mary Griggs Burke ; dons de Florence et Herbert Irving, 1992
  • Accession Number: 1992.8.1, .2
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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