ART-HIST 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rebus, Chinese Constellations, Yi Yuanji
15 Sep 2018
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Terms: sketching from life: empirical knowledge and observation, slender gold script: lean stroke that comes into angular points and kicks up, elegant, bird and flower painting, huang quan, sketches from life, 10th century. Interest in size, scale, color, and species: technical study, most likely a set of motifs to pick from, an instructional manual, well known for inaugurating the bird and flower painting. Interest in collecting rare, aquatic fish in the imperial court. Seems to be a gift of tribute to the song emperor. Interested in a descriptive relationship to nature: not a painting that was done by an artist inspired by the birds, probably by somebody who was well known for doing birds and flowers, signature style, vast variety of techniques. Saying for someone that passed all three levels of the civil service examination: provincial, metropolitan, and court, mao song, gibbon, 12th century.
