Detail View: The AMICA Library: Summer Mountains (after Dong Yuan [active about ad 937-975])
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1992.1
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AMICA Library Year:
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2003
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Huang Gongwang
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Creator Nationality:
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Chinese
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1269 - 1354
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Huang Gongwang
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Title:
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Summer Mountains (after Dong Yuan [active about ad 937-975])
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1290-1354
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Creation Start Date:
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1290
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Creation End Date:
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1354
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Materials and Techniques:
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hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk
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Classification Term:
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Painting
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Dimensions:
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Image: 131.7cm x 55.6cm, Overall: 257.4cm x 71.2cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1992.1
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Credit Line:
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Cornelia Blakemore Warner Bequest, by exchange, and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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Rights:
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Context:
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This monumental landscape is drawn in softly rounded strokes with darker lines frequently applied on top of lighter ones. This technique recalls one of the suggestions included in a collection of the artist's writings known as Secrets of Landscape Painting: The most difficult thing in painting is using the ink. One begins by using dilute ink and builds it up to the point where it begins to look right; then one uses dense, black ink, applied fairly dry, and washes of deeper-toned ink. Thus one distinguishes the fields from the paths, the far from the near.Huang Gongwang may have learned this technique from observing nature through the eyes of an earlier master, Dong Yuan, a painter whose style he shared.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1992.1.tif
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