清 吳熙載 山水 軸|Landscape

Wu Xizai

dated 1858 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Wu Xizai was a philologist and student of Bao Shichen. Wu's painting embodies the calligraphic taste for powerful, rich brushstrokes that engage the paper to create well defined forms and opaque palpable voids. Wu, like Zhao Zhiqian was an avid admirer and practitioner of seal carving, and the dramatic tension of his robust solids and voids, fitting like pieces of a puzzle into a tightly organized surface, brings the seal carver's aesthetic into landscape painting.

Artist

Wu Xizai

Date

dated 1858

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986