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| Exhibition Dates: |
January 25, 2020–January 3, 2021 |
| First rotation: |
January 25–July 19, 2020 |
| Second rotation: |
August 1, 2020–January 3, 2021 |
| Exhibition Location: |
The Met Fifth Avenue, Floor 2, Douglas Dillon Galleries, C. C. Wang Family Gallery,
Frances Young Tang Gallery, Galleries 210–216
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Up Close will offer visitors a rare opportunity to observe details of some of the most renowned works of art in The Met collection. By displaying the artworks alongside photographic enlargements of their details, the exhibition will analyze the works visually in ways that reveal subtleties of brushwork, texture, and line that may escape a viewer at first glance. Spanning from the 11th to the 18th century, the exhibition will present more than 40 masterpieces in various formats—handscroll, hanging scroll, fan, etc.—in two rotations. Among highlights of the exhibition is one of the most important works of Chinese calligraphy in existence: Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru by Huang Tingjian (1045–1105).
The exhibition is made possible by the Joseph Hotung Fund.
In premodern China, painters and calligraphers learned by copying other works of art, a practice that required intense observation of details. In the process, artists also learned how to look—how to detect fine distinctions of ink tone, saturation, and line. This exhibition will encourage this manner of looking by juxtaposing photographic enlargements with works of art, offering visitors a window into the tradition. With eyes attuned to fine details of brushwork, visitors will be able to apprehend the nuances that make Chinese painting and calligraphy among the richest artistic traditions in the world.
The chronologically organized exhibition will feature a number of the Museum’s earliest and most famous treasures of Chinese painting and calligraphy. These include Li Gonglin’s Classic of Filial Piety, one of only three surviving works by the most famous painter of the late 11th century; the gemlike Viewing Plum Blossoms by Moonlight by Ma Yuan, favored court painter of the Southern Song dynasty; Horses and Grooms by Zhao Mengfu, the most versatile and famed painter of the late 13th century; and the celebrated 10th-century landscape masterpiece Riverbank.
The exhibition is organized by Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang Associate Curator of Chinese Paintings in the Department of Asian Art at The Met.
The exhibition will be featured on The Met website as well as on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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January 10, 2020
Image: 南宋 馬遠 月下賞梅圖 團扇 Ma Yuan (Chinese, active ca. 1190–1225) Viewing plum blossoms by moonlight, China, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279), early 13th century. Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk, Image: 9 7/8 × 10 1/2 in. (25.1 × 26.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of John M. Crawford Jr., in honor of Alfreda Murck, 1986. Rotation: 1, Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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