Artist: Wu Shantao
Date: 701
Size: 15.9cm x 47.3cm
Technique: Gold Leaf
The obscure painter Wu Shantao lived in the waning years of the Ming dynasty and through the transition to Qing rule. During this period, images of reclusion became particularly poignant, as people experienced the wrenching pain of dynastic collapse and reconstruction. Moored by the water’s edge, unseen except by passing birds, these fishing boats represented release from worldly troubles.
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