Word: angeli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appreciative of your fine article in the May 6 issue on ''Masterpieces of Chinese Art," and especially of the reproduction of Cowherd, I am prompted to send you the following quotation from a poem by Tu Fu (712 to 770 A.D.) concerning Han Kan, the T'ang Dynasty painter of Cowherd. The poem, A Song of a Painting (in my English version* from the literal English text of Kiang Kang-hu), is addressed to General Ts'ao, who was a painter of war horses preceding Han Kan. Tu Fu, easily one of China's greatest...
...secret weapons of the fierce T'ang cavalry were their powerful Bactrian steeds, by legend so mettlesome that they literally sweated blood. The artist who most magnificently portrayed them was the painter Han Kan. Summoned to court by T'ang Emperor Ming Huang, Han was ordered to study the paintings of one of the court painters, took the "Illustrious Sovereign" aback by replying: "My masters are all in Your Majesty's stables." The results of Han's study of the Emperor's 40,000 horses can be seen in his Cowherd (opposite), a painting that...
...within them, became the aspiration and great achievement of the painters who followed under the Sung emperors (960-1279 A.D.). The greatest of them, Tung Yuan, shows in his Dragon Among the Country People the mighty forward leap taken by the Sung artists over their earlier T'ang models. Tung Yuan's eagle's-eye view depicts the mountains, lakes and plains that he saw in Kiangnan, laid out in one majestic sweep that reaches to the horizon. In its vastness, human figures are reduced to mere dots of color. To his contemporaries, and to generations after...
...addressed as "my elder brother"). His calligraphy (see cut) is one of the most famous in Chinese art history, marked by bold, strong characters that broke with the florid, decorative manner of his predecessors. Despite his eccentric habit of dressing in old-fashioned clothes from the T'ang period. Mi Fei was also a successful courtier, rose to become Secretary of the Board of Rites, and served as a military governor...
...ang Yin, a contemporary of Raphael's, had a Renaissance man's gusto and love of high living. His checkered career, which began with a scandal over his civil-service exam (he came out first, then was disgraced when it was discovered that a friend had bribed the examiner), was spent between wild roistering and intense painting periods. His Gentleman and Attendants borrows T'ang Dynasty props, slims down the earlier plump models to suit Ming tastes, and comes off as a triumph in space and contrasts. But T'ang Yin could not resist slyly mocking...