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| The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C. C. Wang Family Collection |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 1999-2000 exhibition that "illuminates the entire tradition of scholar painting from its birth and early development in the Song and Yuan dynasties (10th to 14th century) to its later transformation and elaboration during the Ming and Qing dynasties (14th to 20th century)." With images of 14 related artworks dating from the 10th century to 1711.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/1999/chinese-painting | |
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| Bridging East and West: The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2008 exhibition featuring "43 paintings and calligraphies by 19 leading Chinese artists of the mid-20th century." With images of 12 artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2007/lin-yutang | |
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| Chinese Handscrolls |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An overview of the Chinese handscroll format: "A significant difference between Eastern and Western painting lies in the format. Unlike Western paintings, which are hung on walls and continuously visible to the eye, most Chinese paintings are not meant to be on constant view but are brought out to be seen only from time to time. This occasional viewing has everything to do with format." With images of 18 paintings from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chhs/hd_chhs.htm | |
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| Chinese Painting |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An introduction to Chinese painting: "This is the aim of the traditional Chinese painter: to capture not only the outer appearance of a subject but its inner essence as well—its energy, life force, spirit." With images of 19 paintings from the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chin/hd_chin.htm | |
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| The Douglas Dillon Legacy: Chinese Painting for the Metropolitan Museum |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2004 exhibition. "Spanning more than 1,000 years of Chinese painting, from the 8th to the 18th century, the exhibition constitutes a compelling survey of all the major schools and trends of the last four dynasties." With images of 8 related artworks dating from the 8th century to 1770.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2004/chinese-painting | |
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| East Asia Cultural Exchange in Tiger and Dragon Paintings |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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“Walking tigers and dragons depicted with water were popular visual compositions across East Asia, and for this reason, the specific origins of the Met’s paintings remain an enigma. The visual pairing of tigers and dragons has a long history in East Asia, appearing in the first hexagram, 乾 (qian), from The Book of Changes, thought to have been written during the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 B.C.). “
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tidra/hd_tidra.htm | |
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| Great Waves: Chinese Themes in the Arts of Korea and Japan |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2003 exhibition that "explores how Chinese pictorial themes—Buddhist iconography, landscape imagery, flower and bird subjects, and figural narratives—were selectively adopted and reinterpreted by native artists in Korea and Japan." With images of 16 related artworks dating from the 10th to the 18th century.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2003/great-waves | |
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| Interiors Imagined: Folding Screens, Garments, and Clothing Stands Source: Interiors Imagined: Fold |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"The original function and context of a genre of screens referred to today as 'whose sleeves?' screens, or tagasode byôbu, are less well studied and understood. As revealed by more than forty extant examples, artisans from various painting schools depicted on folding screens an array of sumptuously patterned garments casually draped over clothing stands." With images of two screens from the Momoyama period.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fold/hd_fold.htm | |
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| Japanese Incense |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief look at the history of incense in Japan: "Incense wood was recorded for the first time in Japan in 595, during the reign of Empress Suiko. Not long before that date, in the mid-sixth century, Buddhism had been introduced into Japan from the continent, and along with Buddhist images and sutras, incense and its implements were also imported." With 13 related objects.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jinc/hd_jinc.htm | |
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| Japanese Weddings in the Edo Period (1615–1868) |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief overview of Edo-period wedding customs: "The social structure of the Edo period (1615–1868) developed under the strict control of the Tokugawa military regime. During this period, the families of the shogunate and provincial leaders (daimyô) arranged marriages based on political interests, and the consent of the shogunate was necessary for a daimyô wedding." With images of 4 related objects.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jwed/hd_jwed.htm | |
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| The Kano School of Painting |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief overview of the Kano school, established by Kano Masanobu (1434-1530). Prominent for more than 300 years, the Kano school is considered to be the "longest lived and most influential school of painting in Japanese history." Closely associated with their powerful patrons, the Tokugawa shogunate, the Kano school prospered throughout the Edo period. With 3 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kano/hd_kano.htm | |
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| The Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A multimedia learning website about a 13th-century Japanese handscroll that illustrates the legends of the Kitano Shrine (Kitano Tenjin Engi). Included are a short introduction to the Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki and audio introduction to the pieces.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45428 | |
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| Landscape Painting in Chinese Art |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief overview of landscape painting in Chinese art from the Tang dynasty to the present. With 10 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/clpg/hd_clpg.htm | |
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| A Look at Chinese Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Examines seven Chinese paintings and calligraphies from the Asian art collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and discusses answers to seven questions that viewers often have about Chinese paintings in general: 1) What materials did the artist use to create this painting; 2) Why is there only writing in this image; 3) Why didn't the artist use any color in this painting; 4) What is this image about; 5) Why did the artist choose this shape for this painting; 6) Why are red stamps placed all over this painting; 7) How is nature depicted in Chinese landscape paintings?
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chin/hd_chin.htm | |
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| Mountain and Water: Korean Landscape Painting, 1400–1800 |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An extensive discussion of landscape painting during the Chosôn dynasty (1392-1910), which "coincides with a period of great maturation of landscape painting, in style and theoretical paradigms." Covers major artists and key developments in style and technique. With 6 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mowa/hd_mowa.htm | |
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| Nepalese Painting |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief overview of Nepalese religious painting, with an emphasis on technique, style, and iconography. With images of 7 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nepp/hd_nepp.htm | |
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| Painting Formats in East Asian Art |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An introduction to the five major painting formats in East Asian art: 1) album; 2) fan; 3) handscroll; 4) hanging scroll; 5) screen. With 13 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pfor/hd_pfor.htm | |
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| The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): Painting |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A discussion of painting during the Qing dynasty, with a focus on three principal groups of artists working during the Qing: the traditionalists, the individualists, and the courtiers and professional artists. With 14 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/qing_1/hd_qing_1.htm | |
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| Rinpa Painting Style |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief introduction to the Rinpa school of painting, which was "a key part of the revival in the Edo period of indigenous Japanese artistic interests described by the term yamato-e." With 5 related artworks and links to related essays about yamato-e painting and seasonal imagery in Japanese art.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rinp/hd_rinp.htm | |
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| Seasonal Imagery in Japanese Art |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A discussion of seasonal imagery in Japanese art, with an emphasis on the importance of Shinto, Zen Buddhism, and poetry. With 9 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/seim/hd_seim.htm | |
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| Traditional Chinese Painting in the Twentieth Century |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief discussion of traditional painting in 20th-century China. With 7 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cptg/hd_cptg.htm | |
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| Wang Hui (1632-1717) |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An overview of the life and work of Wang Hui, "the most celebrated painter of late seventeenth-century China, (who) played a key role in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court." With images of five paintings by Wang.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wang/hd_wang.htm | |
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| When the Manchus Ruled China: Painting under the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2002 exhibition. "The most comprehensive exhibition of Qing dynasty painting ever mounted in the West, this selection of more than 60 works will focus on painting under the brilliant reigns of the Kangxi (r. 1662–1722) and Qianlong (r. 1736–95) emperors—a period when the Manchus embraced Chinese cultural traditions and the court became a leading patron in the arts." With images of 6 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2002/qing-dynasty-painting | |
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| Work and Leisure: Eighteenth-Century Genre Painting in Korea |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An extensive discussion of genre painting (illustrations of everyday life) in 18th-century Korea. Covers major artists and key developments in style and technique. With 4 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kgnr/hd_kgnr.htm | |
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| The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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“This exhibition covers the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai's birth, to 1368, the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China founded by Khubilai Khan, and features every art form, including paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, and other decorative arts, religious and secular. The exhibition highlights new art forms and styles generated in China as a result of the unification of China under the Yuan dynasty and the massive influx of craftsmen from all over the vast Mongol Empire—with reverberations in Italian art of the fourteenth century.” Includes the video “The World of Khubilai Khan: A Revolution in Painting,” with Maxwell K. Hearn. See also exhibition publication.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2010/khubilai-khan | |
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| The World of Scholars' Rocks: Gardens, Studios, and Paintings |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2000 exhibition that "features more than 30 scholars' rocks from the noted collection of the Richard Rosenblum family, ranging in size from desktop pieces to freestanding works of several feet in height. They are accompanied by about 90 paintings dating from the 11th to 20th century, drawn primarily from the Museum's collection." With images of 9 related rocks and paintings.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2000/world-of-scholars | |
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