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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Qian, Feng Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Chinese; 1740-1795 Asia,East Asia,China Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,China Creator Name-CRT: Qian Feng Title: Piled Up Strange Peaks Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1740 Creation End Date: 1795 Creation Date: Qing Dynasty (1644 -1912); 1740-1795 Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,China Object Type: Paintings Classification Term: Hanging Scroll Materials and Techniques: Hanging scroll. Ink on paper. Dimensions: 121.9 x 31.1 cm.48" h. x 12 1/4" w. exclusive of mounting. AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1965.391 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Russell Tyson Endowment Fund Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Subject Description: Qian Feng served as an official under the Qianlong emperor. Better known as a painter of horses, Qian's landscapes are rare. A usually conservative painter who worked in an eighteenth century version of the Ming Wu School style, Qian Feng created in this scroll a mountain landscape full of strange peaks and precariously perched boulders, seemingly on the verge of collapse. The artist's poem reads:Steep hills thrusting, wanting to rub the sky,Streams flowing, again clear and shallow.The forest is lush, the mountain scenery deep,Waves ripple, sometimes exposing the sands.Trees shine, contending with the tranquil deep,Cloud-like thoughts extend, like a scroll unrolling.Heaven and Earth in a single painting,It allows one, exhausted, to ogle and stare. The contrast between the imagery of the poem and the twisted forms of the landscape, and the placement of a solitary hut in the center of this fantastic scene, may reflect Qian Feng's own self-image. Through much of his career Qian served as a censor, whose job it was to report corruption and malfeasance directly to the throne. In the late Qianlong period he denounced several members of the clique of Heshen, the emperor's favorite, and as a result was often under political attack. Although one can only speculate, the strange contrasts and discontinuities in this painting may reflect some of Qian Feng's own experience in a dangerous political mileau. (S. Little, 1999) AMICA ID: AIC_.1965.391 AMICA Library Year: 1999 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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