Chinese painting

Chinese Painting Chinese Painting Mario Bussagli Paul Hamlyn LONDON NEW YORK SYDNEY • • • JORONTO Translated by Henry La © 1966 'idon from the Italian original \ Pittura Cinese Frate Hi Fabbri Editori, Milan This edition © 1969 The Hamlyn Publishing Group Timited Hamlyn House, The Centre, Feltham, Middlesex Text film set in Great Britain by Yendall (& Co Ltd, London Printed in Italy by Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan ^ 73 ^ t# Tai Pen Hsiao {^62^ -^69^) Fantastic Landscape Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano Hanging scroll in ink and light colour on paper Mountains, twisted and smooth like great splinters of rock, overhang a half-hidden house dominated by a pine-tree in a clever play of volumes 72 73 Lo P'ing (1733-1799) Orchids and Rocks Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano Hanging scroll in ink on paper, with long text Pierced like a sponge, the distorted monstrous-rock reveals the skill and style of this artist which have been fully re-evaluated recently by Western critics 74 Kao Ch'i-p'ei (c 672-1 734) Landscape with Towering Peaks Ch'ing dynasty Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Album leaf in ink and colour on paper The inscription is particularly striking The ink was applied not only with a brush but with the fingers and nails as well Kao let one of his nails grow and used he could not get it, notched at the tip, to obtain effects which with his brush 151 woman painter, Tseng Yu-ho On the other hand, Marxist trends have developed book illustration and wood-cuts, and the vigorous quality of the work produced far exceeds their value as propaganda for which they are primarily intended famous Kao Ch'i-p'ei (c 1672-1734) Landscape with rowering Peaks Ch'ing dynasty Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 74 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shih-ning) (1698-176b) The Ambassadors of the Kazak Kirghiz presenting Two Horses to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung Musee Guimet, (detail) Ch'ien-lung period Paris Giuseppe Castigliorie (Lang Shih-ning) (1698-1768) The Ambassadors of the Kazal< Kirghiz presenting Two /-/orses to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung (detail) Ch'ien-lung period Musee Guimet, Paris Nighur Princess offering a Gift Votive picture on canvas dated AD983 From Tun-huang P Pelliot Collection, Musee Guimet Paris Horseman and Groom Painting on paper from Tunhuang 8th century Musee Guimet, Paris Chao Meng-fu (1254-1322) (attribution uncertain) Picture of Wang-ch'uan Copy of the landscape by Wang Wei Yuan dynasty British Museum, London Chu Tuan (active 1506-1521) River Landscape Wu Tsung period National Museum, Stockholm Chu Jui (attributed) Detail of a scroll illustrating the poem of Su Tung-p'o, The Red Rocky Precipice National Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 220) (attributed) Birds and Thorn Blossom Sung dynasty National Museum, Tokyo Painting on a prepared terracotta tile From a torhb near Lo-yang 3rd century AD Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 10 Paintingona preparedterracottatile (detailof atriangular tile) From a tomb near Lo-yang 3rd century AD Museum of 11 16 17 18 Palace and Central Ma Lin (c 20 24 25 Fine Arts, Boston Ku K'ai-chih (c 344-c ^06) Admonitions of the InstrucCourt Ladies (detail) Copy of the T'ang dynasty British Museum, London Ku K'ai-chih (c 344-c A06) Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies (detail) British Museum, London 13 Ku K'ai-chih (c 344-c 406) 7"/7eA//^p/7o;'r/7e/.o/?/i/e/' 1 27 tress to the 28 33 Sung copy of the original scroll illustrating the poem the same name by Ts'ao Chih Freer Gallery of Art, (detail) of Washington 153 14 Han Kan (active c 742-756) Grooms leading Horses offered Freer Gallery of Art (attributed) Central Asiatic in Tribute 34 T'ang dynasty Washinqton Chang Seng-yu (beginning of the 6th century) Ttie Planet Saturn Copy of the Sung dynasty Municipal Museum 15 36 Osaka 16 Han Kan Groom Central 17 (active c 742-756) (attributed) Central Asiatic Two Horses T'ang dynasty National Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) with Yen Li-pen (600-673) The Payers of National Palace and Taichung (Taiwan) dynasty Central Tribute Museum T'ang 40 Collections, Chou Fang (active c 780-81 0) (attributed) Ladies playing Music in the Garden (detail) T'ang dynasty W Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City 19 Yen Li-pen (600-673) Po/t/-a/Yso/r/7e£A77pe/'ors (detail) T'ang dynasty Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 20 Anonymous 1th-century follower of Li Chao-tao (perhaps after an 8th-century work) Emperor Ming H uang travelling in Shu National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 21 Hsu Tao-ning (first half of the 11th century) (attributed) Fishing in a Snowy River Sung dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 22 Anonymous (10th century) Deer />? an /4tyrt7/7?/?a/ H/ooc/ Five Dynasties National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 23 After Tung Yuan (active c 1000) P5w7/o/^soA7r/7e/\//oL/A7tains of the Immortals Five dynasties National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 24 Buddhist Patriarch and Tiger Probably a 13th-century copy after Shih K'o (1 0th century) National Museum, Tokyo 25 Hui-tsung (1082-1135 (attributed) Mountain Landscape with Autumn Colours Sung dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 26 Chao Po-chu (1120-1182) (attributed, but perhaps a 12th-century copy of the original) Palaces of Han Sung dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 27 Li Lung-mien (1040-1106) (attributed) Ty^e/^e/^AVofr/je Immortals (detail) Signed Li Kung-lin (pseudonym) Sung 154 37 Palace and 42 43 44 48 49 50 52 56 57 58 dynasty Freer Gallery of Art, Washington Han-Chung (1120-1160) (attributed) Quail Sung Museum Tokyo 29 Ma Fen (end of the 11th century) The Hundred Wild Geese Sung dynasty Academy of Arts Honolulu 30 Ma Yuan (c 90-1 224) /\ Walk on a Mountain Path in Spring Sung dynasty National Palace and Central Museum 28 Li 60 dynasty Nezu Art 65 66 Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 31 Ma Yuan 32 Anonymous Hanging scroll 1190-1224) (c dynasty National Lone Fisherman Sung 68 Ch'an master Wu-chijn 69 Museum, Tokyo Portrait of the dated 238 Sung dynasty Temple Collection, Tofukuji, Kyoto 33 Ma Lin (active c 1220) Awaiting Fnends by LanternSung dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Light Collections, 34 Li 74 Taichung (Taiwan) Sung (1166-1243) Hangchow Bay by Moonlight Sung dynasty National Palace and Central Museum 75 Collec- Taichung (Taiwan) {c 1180-1230) Talking with a Fnend under Pines by a Precipice National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) tions, 35 Hsia Kuei 36 Lian.g K'ai (active at the 76 3th century) 78 The Poet Li Po Property of the Cultural Properties Protection Commission, Tokyo 37 Anonymous (c end of the 1 th century) Literary Nobleman under a Willow Sung dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 82 beginning of the 38 Ma seum 39 83 ^2^0-Mlb) Scenes of the Hsiao and Hsiang Sung dynasty Nezu Art Museum, Tokyo 84 c 1220) Listening to the Sung dynasty National Palace and Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) W\u-ch"\ {c Rivers (detail) 40 Wind among Central Mu- Lin (active the Pines Mi Fu (1051-1 107) Spring (attributed) P/>7e5aA7tyA//06/A?ra/>7S/>? Sung dynasty National Palace and Central 87 Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) Sun Chun-tse (c 1300) Landscape Yuan dynasty Seikado Foundation, Tokyo 42 ChaoMeng-fu (1254-1322) (attributed) Copy, forstudy purposes, of Wang Wei's Wang-Ch'uan Yuan dynasty British Museum, London 41 91 92 155 43 Chao Meng-fu (1254-1322) Autumn Colours on the Chao and Hua Mountains (detail) Hand-scroll dated 1295 Yuan dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collec- 94 Taichung (Taiwan) (1308-1385) Hut in the Autumn Hills 95 Yuan dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 45 Ni Tsan (1301-1374) Landscape Hand-scroll dated 100 362 Yuan dynasty Freer Gallery of Art, Washington 46 Ni Tsan (1301-1374) Landscape Yuan dynasty 101 National Museum, Stockholm 47 Sheng Mou (active c 1310-1361) On the River in 103 Autumn Hand scroll, with text by a friend of the painter, dated 1361 Yuan dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 48 Wu Chen (1280-1354) Rocks and Bamboo Yuan 104 dynasty British Museum, London 49 Tai Chin (active at the beginning of the 5th century) 108 Returning Home at Evening in Spring Ming dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 50 Shen Chou (1427-1509) Two-Fishermen on the River 109 of the Plane Trees Ming dynasty Academy of Arts, Honolulu 51 Wen Cheng-ming (1470-1 559).P/>7esa/7cyCKp/'esses it)/ '111 the Waterfall Hanging scroll dated 1584 Ming dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung tions, 44.' Wang Meng (Taiwan) 52 Wen Cheng-ming (1470-1559) The Farewell Hanging signed and dated 1531 Ming dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 53 Wen Cheng-ming (1470-1 559) P/7/7osop/7e/'i&K5l/l/a?e/'fall Ming dynasty National Museum, Stockholm 54 Tang Yin (1470-1523) Fishermen on the River in Autumn Ming dynasty National Palace and Central Museum Collections, Taichung (Taiwan) 55 Ch'iu Ying (active c 1522-1560) Farewell to Hsunyang (detail) Ming dynasty W Rockhill Nelson Gallery of 112 scroll Art, Kansas 56 Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (1555-1636) Landscape From an album of Lugano 156 116 117 118 City eight pages, dated 1601 Vannotti Collection, 120 57 \J\langCh'\en i^59S-^ 677) Mountain Landscape dynasty Freer Gallery of Art, Washington CW\ng 124 Chu Ta, called Pa-ta Shan-jen (1626-c 1705) MounLandscape Ch'ing dynasty Academy of Arts, Honolulu 59 Chu Ta called Pa-ta Shan-jen (1626-c 1705) Ri\/er Landscape Academy of Arts, Honolulu 60 Fang Shih-shu (1692-1 751 )./.aA7cy5cape Ch'ing dynasty 126 58 tain Staatliche 61 Museen, 128 Berlin Ch'a Shih-piao (161 5-1698) C/'os5//75'aA//ot;/?ra/>7/?/Ver on a Donkey Hanging scroll dated 1678 Ch'ing dynasty Dubosc Collection, Lugano 62 Wu Li (1 632-c 71 8) Landscape in the style ofNi Tsan Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 63 Wang Chien (1598-1677) Landscape Hanging scroll signed and dated 1666 Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano Wang Shih-min (1592-1680) Landscape Hanging signed and dated 647 Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 65 Wang Hui (1632-1717) Landscape Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 66 Wang Hui (1632-1717) Landscape Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 67 Kung Hsien (active c 1660-1700) Landscape Ch'ing dynasty W Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City 68 Kung Hsien (active c 1660-1700) Landscape with Bridge Page of an album dated 1684 Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 69 Tao-chi (1630-1707) Illustration for an episode of the tale by T'ao Yuan-ming, The Peach Blossom Spring Ch'ing 64 127 131 32 133 135 scroll, dynasty Freer Gallery of Art, Washington 70 Tao-chi (1630-1707) Landscape Ch'ing dynasty Van- Lugano 71 Hung-jen (c 1603-1663) Landscape Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 72 Tai Pen Hsiao (1621-1 691 ).faA7ra5r/c/-aA7cyscape Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 73 Lo P'ing (1733-1799) Orchids and Rocks Ch'ing dynasty Vannotti Collection, Lugano 74 Kao Ch'i-p'ei (c 672-1 734) Landscape with Towenng Peaks Ch'ing dynasty Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 136 137 138 142 144 145 notti Collection, 146 149 150 52 157 ... Chinese Painting Chinese Painting Mario Bussagli Paul Hamlyn LONDON NEW YORK SYDNEY • • • JORONTO Translated... to understand it clearly, Chinese painting is not as foreign to the Western world as it might seem Bernard Berenson pointed out that occasionally the spirit of Chinese painting has a counterpart... example of Chinese influenced central Asiatic painting Note how the figures of the women dominate the featureless room but without any psychological implication Horseman and Groom Painting on