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Landscape

산수도 [山水圖]

1800s

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) or Korea, Joseon dynasty

(1392–1910)
Medium
Ink and color on paper
Measurements
Overall: 182.6 x 74.2 cm (71 7/8 x 29 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.217
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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The artist of this landscape painting follows a tradition called the Southern school (南宗画), a stylistic term used to refer to intentionally unpolished amateur painting popular across East Asia around the late 1700s and afterwards.

Description

The artist of this landscape painting follows a tradition called the Southern school (南宗画). Generally, painters of the Southern school worked with monochrome ink and light colors, emphasizing calligraphic brushstrokes.
A hanging scroll depicts a vertical landscape with columns of calligraphy at the upper left. Muted green and blue dabs and dashes form foliage on trees and rocky terrain. A thin waterfall and winding paths descend through misty mountains. In the foreground, small figures with light skin tones ride water buffalo, peer from a cottage window, or fish from a boat and the shore, all rendered with brief, precise brushstrokes.

Landscape

1800s

Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) or Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)

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