The Soughing of the Wind in the Pines Echoes the Melody of Spring, 1705
Shen Zongjingexpand_more
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The Friends of Bruce Dayton Art Acquisition Fundexpand_more 2015.66
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Shen Zongjing, a scholar-official painter of the early 1700s, often painted mountains and streams in shades of black and gray, a manner favored by other scholar-artists. His works express lofty, powerful thoughts. This type of landscape painting is known as chenghuai weidao, or “purifying one’s mind to savor Dao.” Here, the term “Dao” refers to the essence of the phenomena embodied in nature. Such paintings always portray one or several seated gentlemen gazing into distant mountains and waterfalls. It is through such communion between humans and nature that an awakening or sublime transcendence of mortal bounds is sensed.
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- The Soughing of the Wind in the Pines Echoes the Melody of Spring
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