Metaphorical

Shi-yee Liu

October 3, 2013

2 min. watch

This video is part of 82nd and Fifth, a series that invites curators from across the Museum to talk about an artwork that changed the way they see the world.

”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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