The 555 Artworks of media Silk and containing the word xia gui, silk, 1200

The Southern Song artist, eschewing the Northern Song monumental landscape traditions of 'a hundred peaks and ten thousand trees,' viewed nature through the microcosm of a single pair of trees and one or two rocks suspended in an infinite void. In this scene of unbounded space, vigorous wet-ink line...

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This composition, formerly attributed to Xia Gui, depicts two farmers struggling to return home in a summer downpour. Although the drawing of the angry cliff face and dancing tree leaves is extremely skillful, the effect is somewhat theatrical. The round brushwork, while deriving from Xia Gui, is fr...

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Zhou Wenjing served as a court painter in the Beijing imperial palace. His artistic abilities became known when he was summoned to court as a soothsayer and won first prize in a painting competition sponsored by the Xuande emperor (r. 1426–35). Zhou was still active as a court painter in 1463.This s...

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The dress was made of rayon jersey, treated in bias cut to fit around the body. The surrounding sash has the effect of highlighting the sleek body. The dress is from Madeleine Vionnet/

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In 1928, when Elizabeth Hawes opened her salon in New York City, American women looked to Paris for couture garments, and American designers were copying the designs of the French couturiers. Hawes, however, constructed her designs to fit her clients/

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A-line, floor-length Evening dress in black silk gazar; round neckline; 3/4 length flared raglan sleeves; center front and back seams; tightly pleated bias-cut white organza ruffle at sleeve openings and hem; organza bow at apex; center back zipper closure; black silk lining. Label, in ink on twill ...

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Ma Yuan, a fourth-generation member of a family of painters, was a leading artist at the Southern Song painting academy in Hangzhou. A city of unsurpassed beauty, Hangzhou was graced with pavilions, gardens, and scenic vistas. In this album leaf, which shows a gentleman in a gardenlike setting, the ...

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This set of paintings is painted by Sesshū when he was in China. It is an exceptionally large Shiki Sansui (landscapes of the four seasons) painted on silk, with a composition that is dynamic, but firmly structured and stable. Its size, material, motifs, and style are each explicitly Chinese. Beside...

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The famous Zen monk Myōtaku (Ryūshū Shūtaku) produced many paintings and prints of Fudō Myōō and his attendants Seitaka Dōji and Kongara Dōji. This painting illustrates Kongara Dōji and probably formed a triptych with Fudō and Seitaka.

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Ganku became famous for his meticulously brushed paintings of tigers. He first studied Kano-style painting and then mastered the more naturalistic manner espoused by the Chinese painter Shen Nanpin (Shen Quan, 1682–1758) as well as by artists of the Maruyama-Shijō school. The more vigorous style he ...

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Tang Di was one of the first southern scholar-artists to revive the Northern Song landscape traditions of the tenth and eleventh centuries, and this composition is typical of the many large-scale works he produced in emulation of northern prototypes. While Northern Song masters were inclined to depi...

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