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Artist: Soga Shohaku

Date: 801

Size: 156.8cm x 173.7cm

Technique: Panel

Soga Shōhaku was a Japanese painter of the Edo period who distinguished himself from his contemporaries by preferring the brush style of the Muromachi period. His painting "Chinese Scholar Contemplating a Waterfall" is an excellent example of this aesthetic, which was already passé 150 years before his birth.

A Masterpiece of East Asian Art

"Chinese Scholar Contemplating a Waterfall" is a masterpiece of East Asian art that draws on an archetypal motif in East Asian art first formulated by Song-dynasty painters in the tenth century. The painting depicts a mountain landscape, in which the human presence is but a minor aspect of the vastness of nature.

A Vision of Nature

The vision of nature in "Chinese Scholar Contemplating a Waterfall" is more foreboding than grand, and the minute humans seem more in peril than in harmony with their strangely animated environment. At the edge of a precipice in the left foreground, a gentleman sits contemplating a distant waterfall, unaware of the improbable danger that surrounds him.

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