清 石濤(朱若極) 風雨竹圖 軸, Bamboo in Wind and Rain, Shitao, ca. 1694

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清, 石濤(朱若極), 風雨竹圖, 軸, Bamboo in Wind and Rain, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), ca. 1694, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 87 3/4 x 30 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) (Chinese, 1642–1707), Shitao, one of the most outstanding landscape masters of his time, was also passionately in love with bamboo painting. On this monumental work, he quotes a description by Su Che (1039–1112) of Wen Tong (1018–1079), the Northern Song bamboo painter: 'He dallies amid bamboo in the morning, stays in the company of bamboo in the evening, drinks and eats amid the bamboo, and rests and sleeps in the shade of bamboo; having observed all the different aspects of the bamboo, he then exhausts all the bamboo's many transformations

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