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Metaphorical

Shi-yee Liu
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”He’s playing on the idea of the deceptive nature of what can be seen on the surface.”

Curator Shi-yee Liu on Poet strolling by a marshy bank, an early thirteenth-century painting by Liang Kai.

Contributors

Shi-yee Liu
Assistant Research Curator of Chinese Art, Department of Asian Art

Photography by Katherine Dahab

Art Mentioned

Poet strolling by a marshy bank, Liang Kai Chinese, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk, China
Poet strolling by a marshy bank
Liang Kai
early 13th century

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