Artist: Shitao
Date: 1694
Size: 223 x 76 cm
Technique: Paper
Shitao, one of the most outstanding landscape masters of his time, was also passionately in love with bamboo painting. On this monumental work, he quotes a description by Su Che (1039–1112) of Wen Tong (1018–1079), the Northern Song bamboo painter: "He dallies amid bamboo in the morning, stays in the company of bamboo in the evening, drinks and eats amid the bamboo, and rests and sleeps in the shade of bamboo; having observed all the different aspects of the bamboo, he then exhausts all the bamboo"s many transformations." Accompanying Shitao"s signature is his seal, which quotes a saying by Wen Tong: "How can I live one day without this gentleman!" During the eighteenth,century, Shitao"s style of bamboo painting was practiced by members of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.
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