Eternity

Maxwell K. Hearn

September 17, 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.

“We've gone from the solid world into this confrontation with the ultimate emptiness of life.”

Curator Maxwell K. Hearn on Cloudy Mountains, a fourteenth-century handscroll by Fang Congyi.

Contributors

Maxwell K. Hearn
Douglas Dillon Chairman, Department of Asian Art, MMA

Photography by Eileen Travell

Music by Austin Fisher

Art Mentioned

Cloudy Mountains, Fang Congyi Chinese, Handscroll; ink and color on paper, China — Cloudy Mountains
Fang Congyi
ca. 1360–70

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