近代 豐子愷 界畫樓臺 軸|Ruled-painting

Feng Zikai

20th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

The use of a straightedge for architectural paintings, particularly fashionable during the Song dynasty (960–1279) when realism enjoyed a vogue, is updated by Feng Zikai in this simple depiction of the courtyard of a traditional Chinese compound. His witty marriage of traditional architectural drawing to Western perspectival techniques is typically unprepossessing.

Artist

Feng Zikai

Date

20th century

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