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DiaporamaAutumn landscape with egrets and ducks
401
148.0cm x 55.0cm
liu chi or lü chi or lü ki (? – ?)
Discover Lü Ji, a renowned Ming Dynasty court painter from Ningbo, celebrated for his vibrant bird-and-flower paintings, including mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus, blending Southern Song ink-wash style with colorful brilliance.
Lü Ji, a professional painter from Zhejiang Province, worked in the Southern Song (1127–1279) ink-wash style, which had remained popular in that region through the intervening centuries. He was summoned to be a court painter in the Hongzhi period (1488–1505) and was given an honorary title as an officer in the imperial guard. The artist"s paintings, done in a dashing descriptive style that was highly regarded at court, were derided by Shen Zhou (1427–1509), the leading scholar-painter of the time, as being merely works "of the hand"; Shen considered his own calligraphic drawings to be products "of the heart." The contrast between the hand and the heart highlights the presumed difference between the works of the "professional" artists and those of the "scholar-amateur" painters of the Ming period.
About this artwork
- Title: Autumn landscape with egrets and ducks
- Artist: liu chi or lü chi or lü ki
- Year: 401
- Original dimensions: 148.0cm x 55.0cm
- Format: Tall
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Main color: Walnut
- Color intensity: Balanced
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