Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai, 南宋 李結 西塞漁社圖 卷, Song dynasty (960–1279), ca. 1170, China, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, Image (a): 16 in. × 53 3/4 in. (40.6 × 136.5 cm), Paintings, Li Jie (Chinese, 1124– before 1197), In this imaginary depiction of his retirement retreat the scholar-official Li Jie presents an image of his future home in a self-consciously primitive manner. The archaic, maplike image—composed of frontal, schematically rendered mountains and trees, an archaic 'blue-and-green' color scheme, an uptilted ground plane, and sticklike architecture—directly recalls an early paradigm of the scholarly retreat: the Wangchuan Villa of the Tang poet-painter Wang Wei (699–759
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Fisherman's Lodge, Mount Xisai, 南宋, 李結, 西塞漁社圬, 卷, Song dynasty, 960–1279, ca, 1170, China, Handscroll, ink, color, silk, Image, 16, 53 3/4, 40.6, 136.5 cm, Paintings, Li Jie, Chinese, 1124– before, 1197, imaginary depiction, retirement retreat, scholar-official Li, presents, image, future home, self-consciously primitive, manner, archaic, maplike image—composed, frontal, schematically rendered, mountains, trees, blue, green, color scheme, uptilted ground, plane, sticklike architecture—directly, recalls, early paradigm, scholarly Wangchuan Villa, Tang poet-painter, Wang, Wei, 699–759
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