The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Bamboo in Four Seasons: Summer
1279–1368
Location: not on view
Description
The painting depicts high bamboo stems in a breeze with leaves all torn in one direction. The rock on the right suggests a garden setting. Bamboo remains green throughout the year; new shoots emerge every spring and are a Chinese delicacy. During the Yuan dynasty, monochrome ink painting became the dominant style of the scholar-artist, and is used here by a professional painter. Monochrome bamboo with leaves blown in the wind was a popular subject as its depiction demanded brushstrokes and techniques similar to writing calligraphy.- Goro Sakamoto; Fugendo Co., Ltd.
- Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119); July 13 - November 17, 2004.Arts of the Kazari: Japan on Display, 15th-19th Centuries. Japan Society Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (October 15-December 31, 2002); The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (February 2-April 13, 2003).Japan Society Gallery, New York (10/15/2002 - 12/31/2002) and the British Museum, London (2/2/2003 - 4/13/2003): "Kazari, Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries", exh. cat. no.2b, p. 91.The Art of Obaku. Kyoto National Museum (organizer) (October 5-November 7, 1993).CMA 1983: "Year in Review 1982," Bulletin LXX (January 1983), p. 55, no. 122, repr. p. 37.
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