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Gibões em uma paisagem

ca. 1570
Not on view
O gibão, nativo das montanhas com florestas da China meridional, é conhecido no Japão graças à pintura e à poesia. Seu grito é associado na poesia com o sublime espírito da solidão, e na tradição taoísta com a força vital superior. Os gibões pintados pelo monge chinês Muqi (ativo ca. 1245) eram muito apreciados pelos monges Zen do Japão. No final do século XV, a pintura de gibões, na forma de Muqi, havia se tornado um assunto favorito para a decoração da biombos. Esta imagem, de uma cadeia de gibões tentando inutilmente alcançar um reflexo da lua, símbolo da iluminação, ilustra um paradoxo fundamental da doutrina Zen.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Gibões em uma paisagem
  • Artista: Sesson Shūkei, japonês, ca. 1504–ca. 1589
  • Período: Período Muromachi
  • Data: ca. 1570
  • Meio: Par de biombos com seis painéis; tinta sobre papel
  • Dimensões: Cada um com 157,5 x 348 cm
  • Linha de créditos: Compra, Fundo Rogers e Fundação Vincent Astor, doações da Fundação Mary Livingston Griggs e Mary Griggs Burke e Florence e Herbert Irving, 1992
  • Número de acesso: 1992.8.1, .2
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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