Art Institute of Chicago

Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖

Lu Zhi 陸治 (Chinese, 1496-1576)

Date

Ming dynasty (1368–1644); c. 1545

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Culture

China

Department

Arts of Asia

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature and man's place in it. Lu Zhi, a 16th-century artist, belonged to a class of highly educated men who painted for their own pleasure. In Distant Mountains , he used multiple ground planes and suggestive voids to create a majestic vista of jagged peaks and a meandering, wide river. Through the crystalline precision of his brush strokes, the artist achieved an image of great clarity and refinement.

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