Chinese Scholar Contemplating a Waterfall, Soga Shōhaku

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Chinese Scholar Contemplating a Waterfall, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink and gold paint on paper, Image: 61 3/4 x 68 3/8 in. ( x cm), Screens, Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781), This mountain landscape, in which the human presence is but a minor aspect of the vastness of nature, draws on an archetypal motif in East Asian art first formulated by Song-dynasty painters in the tenth century

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Size: 4474px × 4061px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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