Rocky Landscape with Pines before 1346 Zhang Xun A native of Suzhou, Zhang Xun maintained a peripatetic existence, supporting himself through tutoring and painting. Contemporaries note that he was widely learned, good at literary compositions, and an excellent calligrapher; in painting, he followed tenth-century prototypes, painting bamboo in the outline drawing method and landscapes in the manner of Juran (active ca. 960–95).Adhering strictly to tenth-century models, this landscape in the Juran mode is uncompromisingly austere and abstract. Written when Zhang was about fifty, the poem echoes
Rocky Landscape with Pines before 1346 Zhang Xun A native of Suzhou, Zhang Xun maintained a peripatetic existence, supporting himself through tutoring and painting. Contemporaries note that he was widely learned, good at literary compositions, and an excellent calligrapher; in painting, he followed tenth-century prototypes, painting bamboo in the outline drawing method and landscapes in the manner of Juran (active ca. 960–95).Adhering strictly to tenth-century models, this landscape in the Juran mode is uncompromisingly austere and abstract. Written when Zhang was about fifty, the poem echoes the melancholy of the uninhabited landscape:On the rocky [landscape] pine blossoms fall and bloom mountain Ailanthus, useless [for its timber], has grownto full cart has ever reached this woodcutter's with hair gray, I have passed fifty years in Rocky Landscape with Pines. Zhang Xun (Chinese, ca. 1295–after 1349). China. before 1346. Hanging scroll; ink on silk. Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Paintings
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