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Tall Bamboo and Distant Mountains, after Wang Meng

仿王蒙修竹遠山圖

1694

Wang Hui 王翬

(Chinese, 1632–1717)
Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Measurements
Painting: 79.6 x 39.4 cm (31 5/16 x 15 1/2 in.); Overall with knobs: 215.8 x 61.6 cm (84 15/16 x 24 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1953.629
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As a leading figure in the Orthodox School of Chinese painting, Wang Hui believed that the act of painting was a dialogue with one or more masters of the past.

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Wang Hui studied paintings by earlier masters and digested their styles with unceasing virtuosity. He had such enduring affection for a landscape by Wang Meng 王蒙 (about 1308–85) that between 1686 and 1712, he made several copies, like this example. One of his compositional transformations here was moving the scholar from the pavilion directly into the landscape by the stream.

His faithful copying also included inscriptions. Wang Meng had written that he was trying to resuscitate the style of an earlier artist, Wen Tong (1018–1079); therefore, Wang Hui sought to revive both Wang Meng and Wen Tong.
A hanging scroll in black ink on beige paper depicts a landscape with clusters of spindly bamboo. Detailed leaves and fine brushstrokes define the plants growing among rounded hills in the foreground. A small figure sits centrally near a thatched pavilion on the left. In the background, undulating mountains stretch across the horizon. Multiple vertical columns of Chinese calligraphy and red seals occupy the upper portion (see "Inscriptions").

Tall Bamboo and Distant Mountains, after Wang Meng

1694

Wang Hui

(Chinese, 1632–1717)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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