ARTHIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Shen Zhou, Handscroll, Muromachi Period
20 May 2018
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Name: Poet on a Mountaintop
By: Shen Zhou
Dynasty: Mind c. 1500
Quote: White louds like a elt eile the outai waist. A stoe ledge flyig i spae, ad
the far thin road. I lean alone on my bramble staff and gazing contented into space with the
soudig toet would aswe to you flute.
Part of an album filled with scenes of landscapes - originally part of a hand scroll but was
remounted as a leaf of this album
Leaf: single sheet of album/ book
Shen like Ni and Zhao was a literati painter, he sought to distance himself from the world of
government work
He promoted the idea of scholars such as himself being supported by the court to
promote peace in their local communities and he was very well respected
Calligraphy: ancient Greek for Kallos meaning beauty and graphein meaning writing – thus the
art of writing
Washes: the light silverish patches where Shen has watered down his black ink
Personal style: particular ways of making art
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