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View at the museum ↗Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖
Lu ZhiMing dynasty (1368–1644); c. 1545
- Attribution
- Lu Zhi 陸治 (Chinese, 1496-1576)
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Physical dimensions
- 105.8 × 31.1 cm (41 5/8 × 17 in.)
- Credit line
- W. L. Mead Fund
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Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature and man's place in it. Lu Zhi, a 16th-century artist, belonged to a class of highly educated men who painted for their own pleasure. In Distant Mountains , he used multiple ground planes and suggestive voids to create a majestic vista of jagged peaks and a meandering, wide river. Through the crystalline precision of his brush strokes, the artist achieved an image of great clarity and refinement.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0