The Orchid Pavilion Gathering

Nombre del creador

Unknown;

Tang Yin

Contexto cultural

Chinese

Fecha

Creación: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Qing dynasty

Fuente

Walters Art Museum

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Descripción de objeto de Curationist

The Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion was a legendary poetic fete in 353 CE. Renowned calligrapher Wang Xizhi invited a group of illustrious writers for an evening of drinking and poetry. The preface of the resulting anthology survives thanks to centuries of copying as part of traditional Chinese artist training. Generations of shan shui landscape painters copied and innovated on their predecessors to create their own depictions of the famed gathering. An artist painted this version, from the 17th to 19th century, in the style of Tang Yin. Tang Yin was a Ming Dynasty landscape painter whose compositions depicted soaring, lonely mountain peaks and wide rivers. Shan shui painters often depicted scholars abdicating city life to wander through nature.

Descripción de objeto de Walters Art Museum

In 353, forty-two high officials who were also poets gathered at the Orchid Pavilion to celebrate a spring festival. The poems they composed were judged, and the losers had to take a stick, retrieve one of the wine-filled cups that had been ingeniously sent down the river, and empty it.Much later, the text describing this happy occasion became a popular subject among artists, some of whom emphasized landscape, others the activities of the increasingly inebriated participants. This unsigned scroll is not easy to date. It has been dyed to make it look older than it actually is, but artificial aging has been practiced for centuries in China.For the latest information about this object, The Orchid Pavilion Gathering, visit the Online ...

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The Orchid Pavilion Gathering

Creador

Unknown;

Tang Yin (Enlace a la biografía), after

Tipo de obra

Scroll painting

emakimono; hand scrolls

Contexto cultural

Chinese

Material

ink and color on silk mounted on paper

Dimensiones

H: 11 9/16 x L: 208 13/16 in. (29.3 x 530.4 cm)

Técnica

Painting

Idioma

Fecha

Creación: 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Qing dynasty

Creation: 17th-19th century, Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty

Procedencia

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.; Dr. John C. Ferguson [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John C. Ferguson Collection Sale, American Art Association, April 7, 1916, no. 228 [as by Tang Yin, ca. 1525]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1916, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Estilo Período

Southern School

Derechos

CC0;

GNU Free Documentation License

Inscripción

[Seal] At end on painting

Ubicación

Creación: China

Fuente

Walters Art Museum

Temas

Tema descriptivo: Mountain, Water, River, Plant, Tree, Landscape, Orchid Pavilion Gathering, Shan shui, Bamboo (plant), People, Man, Scholar

Tema

Colaboradores de Curationist

Reina Gattuso; Jessica Gengler; Christina Stone

Contenido relacionado

Parte de: Chinese Landscape Painting: At the Orchid Pavilion

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Unknown, The Orchid Pavilion Gathering, 17th-19th century. Walters Art Museum. This rendering of the famed Orchid Pavilion literary gathering, from the Qing Dynasty, depicts towering mountains and a vast river. CC0.

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