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Feng Zikai

undated · Framed hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Feng Zikai developed an abbreviated, almost cartoonish style of painting in response to calls by intellectuals for a twentieth-century Chinese art that could be understood by common people. Here, he renders a classic theme from Chinese landscape painting—a reading scholar in a mountain pavilion—in his new manner, merging conventions of the past with the needs of his own day. The poem reads: The leisurely white clouds come and go often. Don’t mind if I never welcome you in or see you out. Zikai --Translation by Keita Itoh and Lawrence Wu

Artist

Feng Zikai

Date

undated

Medium

Framed hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Bequest of Robert H. Ellsworth, 2014