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Art Lecture: How to Read a Chinese Painting

Art Lecture: How to Read a Chinese Painting
  • Type: Art Audio File, Talks and Lectures
  • Collection: East Asian Art
  • Culture/Region: China
  • Subject Area: Fine Arts

Spanning a thousand years of Chinese art from the eighth through the seventeenth century, the lecture will examine multiple layers of meaning—style, technique, symbolism, past traditions, and the artist’s personal circumstances—in the treatment of landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, religious subjects, and calligraphies in order to illuminate the main goal of every Chinese artist: to capture not only the outer appearance of a subject but also its inner essence.

https://soundcloud.com/vmfa-education-resources/how-to-read-a-chinese-painting-vmfa-maxwell-k-hearn

Talk begins at 7:12 preceded by introductory remarks

Details:
Lecture with Maxwell K Hearn,
Douglas Dillon Chairman Department of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Welcome given by Alex Nyerges, Director, VMFA
Introduction given by Li Jian, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of East Asian Art, VMFA

Thu, Dec 4, 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Leslie Cheek Theater, VMFA

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