Detail View: National Palace English: Mist and Rain in Summer Mountains
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Work ID:
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M01E00251
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Title:
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Mist and Rain in Summer Mountains
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Creation Date:
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Qing Dynasty
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Start Year Date:
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A.D.1644
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End Year Date:
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A.D.1911
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Dynasty:
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63 Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1644~1911)
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Creator:
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Wang Hui
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Creation Place:
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China
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Measurements:
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33.0 x 374.6 cm
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Material:
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Ink and color on silk
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Form:
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Shou-juan (hand scroll)
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Type:
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Painting
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Subject:
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Landscape
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Repository:
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The National Palace Museum, Taipei
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Description:
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Mist and Rain in Summer Mountains is characterized foremost by a wealth of variations in the arrangement of hills and valleys. Using pale ink to depict distant mountains, Wang Hui also presents the viewer with a rocky path through which to enter the painting. Nestled with the continuous succession of mountain forests from near to far, ink terraces, houses, roofed towers, bridges, and a waterfall appear as if embroidered into the composition. Tree branches bend and stretch. Leaves are plentiful and lively. Wang Hui uses a number of painting techniques. For the mountain rocks, he uses a center-tipped brush; and for the hemp fiber texture strokes, he combines a slanted brush and split brush axe-cut texture strokes as if to "carve" the painting. Texture strokes use both light and dark ink, displaying variations from dry to moist. Wang Hui uses light crimson as a primary color. On the painting's surface, abstract dian (moss dots) and lines relate to one another in an orderly manner. Additionally, the painter's regular variation of hemp fiber texture strokes-both continuous and discontinuous-create a sense of constant fluctuation in the mountains and valleys. Layers of connected mountains repeatedly rise and fall, disperse and unite, moving as if imbued with a kind of life energy.
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ImageV ID:
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M01E00251AS000
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Rights:
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Lee & Lee Communications
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