明 盛茂曄 唐詩意山水圖 冊|Landscapes after Tang Poems

Sheng Maoye

mid-17th century · Album of six paintings; ink and color on silk · Asian Art

Sheng Maoye, a professional painter active in his native Suzhou, shows in his work a lively interest in the shifting atmospheric effects of landscapes in mist and rain or of clouds at twilight or dawn. In these album leaves, images suggested by couplets excerpted from Tang-dynasty (618–907) poems provided the springboard for the artist's imagination. Sheng's interest in exploring the descriptive potentials of monochrome ink—sometimes with the addition of pale colors—to suggest different states of atmospheric realism was shared by his contemporaries in the Nanjing area, including Fan Qi (1616–after 1694) and Gong Xian (1619–1689).

Artist

Sheng Maoye

Date

mid-17th century

Medium

Album of six paintings; ink and color on silk

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

The Sackler Fund, 1969