Artist: Dong Qichang, Chinese, 1555–1636, Reminiscence of Jian River, ca. 1621, Hanging scroll: ink and color on paper, without mounting: 49 5/16 × 18 9/16 in. ( × cm), Dong Qichang constructed this landscape around a powerful sense of movement that begins with the twisted evergreen that dominates the foreground and thrusts upward into the conical hills above. The pronounced diagonal slope of the hills, trees, and buildings at the upper left provides a dynamic counterforce to the vertical composition.

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