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Friday, March 29, 2024


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, USA
Aug 26, 2018 To Aug 04, 2019


Detail: About a thousand years ago, the Chinese landscape painter Guo Xi posed the question, "In what does a gentleman's love of landscape consist?" This question is at the heart of the exhibition, which explores the many uses of landscape in the Chinese visual arts.

This exhibition, which showcases more than 120 Chinese landscape paintings in four rotations, offers insights into the tradition, revealing distinctions between types of landscape that might not be obvious at first glance. What appears to be a simple mountain dwelling, for example, turns out to be the villa of the painter's friend, encoding a wish for his happy retirement. Similarly, what seems at first to be a simple study in dry brushwork turns out to be an homage to an old master, an expression of reverence for what has come before.

Drawn primarily from The Met's holdings and supplemented by a dozen private loans, the presentation is augmented by decorative art objects with landscape themes.

Phone No.: 212-535-7710
Site URL: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/streams-and-mountains

Boating amid Snowy Streams and Mountains
Boating amid Snowy Streams and Mountains
China
mid-17th century
Image: 90 x 37 1/4 in. (228.6 x 94.6 cm)
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Gift of John and Lili Bussel Family,1996

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