Footsteps - Jotaro's Travels: Art Gallery - Taiwan National Palace Museum: Gallery 212 (Chinese Paintings)

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Taiwan National Palace Museum: 2nd Floor Gallery 205f
(Magic Of The Kneaded Clay 07) - November 2017

Young siblings playing with crickets.

The National Palace Museum, located in Taipei and Taibao, Taiwan, has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks. Gallery 212 (Chinese Paintings) display paintings collected by the emperors through the ages of Chinese History. Understandably, photography is not allowed within these galleries as the paintings are often done on fragile silk or bamboo paper. The paintings I showed here were from poster prints on display at the entrance foyers and a large staircase landing. as such there were no annotations of the name of the paintings, painters, year of origin and dimensions. Due to photography angle, the photos below has been cropped, and due to photography distance, some of the photos were blur; as such it is best to visit the museum personally and view the artwork first-hand.

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"Myriad Butterflies" - poster print reproduction of 359 x 2525 ink and colour on silk painting by Yu Xing (1692-?); Emperor Qianlong (乾隆) reign (1735–1796), Qing Dynasty (清朝) (1644-1912).
Yu Xing, a native of Changshu (常熟) in Jiangsu Province (江苏省), went by the style name Zengsan. He excelled at painting landscapes, birds-and-flowers, bamboo, and grasses-and-insects. Both his father (Xun) and his younger brother (Zhi) also excelled at painting. During the Qianlong reign, Yu Sheng served in the Imperial Painting Academy along with Tang Dai, Zhou Kun and others.

"Beauties on an Outing" - 334 x 1126poster print reproduction of handscroll, ink and colour on silk painting attributed to Li Gong-lin (1049-1106); Southern Song Dynasty (宋朝) (1127-1279).
This work is based on the archaic verse "Beauties on an Outing" by Tu Fu (杜甫) (712-770), who described therein the opulent beauty of the noble ladies of Ch'in, Han, and Kuo (the latter being the elder sister of the famous Yang Kuei-fei (楊玉環). Nine figures are shown here on an excursion on horseback in early spring. The plump ladies and muscular horses as well as the clothing, hairstyles, and coloring all suggest the style of Tang Dynasty (唐朝) (618-907) culture and painting.

"The Three Friends and a Hundred Birds" - copy of Chinese painting by Bian Wenjin (邊文进) (c.1356-1428) of the Ming Dynasty (明朝) (1368-1644) period.
This was from the cover photo of the book "The Making of a National Treasure" available from the National Palace Museum Gift Shop.

Children playing with crickets - multi-piece poster reproduction available from the National Palace Museum Gift Shop.

Chinese traders on donkeys crossing a gully bridge.

Grasshopper on a leaf.

Courtesan drinking wine.

Red-leaf tree in front of a waterfall.

Leafy trees in the forest.

Brown horse grazing in a green meadow.

Chinese courtesans playing lute and eating dinner.

Goose honking at the pond.

Relaxing and reading poetry at the riverside.

A colourful perching bird and a nesting magpie.

A duck by the riverside.

"Twin Pines" - ink and colour on silk painting by Wu Zhen (吳鎮) (1280-1354), Yuan Dynasty (元朝) (1271–1368).
Wu Zhen was a painter born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, during the Yuan dynasty of China, one of the so-called Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty. He followed the Dong Yuan (董源) school of painting. Following along with trends of the time, Wu's works tended less toward naturalism (i.e. painting exactly what the eye sees) and more toward abstraction, focusing on dynamic balance of elements, and personifying nature. His painting The Central Mountain, dated 1336, is perhaps his greatest work and shows his style very clearly.

KIng's offering/

Playing flute on boars at the riverside.

Loving mating horses.

Ladies weaving silk.

Cypress trees grove.

The hut at the riverside.

Children spring cleaning for Chinese New Year.

Kublai Khan on horseback.

Deers in the forest.

Onto the fishing boat.

A Chinese feast in the forest.

"The Central Mountain"

Tea time for royal ladies.

"Panaroma of Mount Lu" - 1981 ink and colour on silk painting by Chang Dai-chien (張大千, Zhāng Dàqiān) (1899-1983), Chinese Republican Period (中華民國) (1912–1949).
The photograph here appears distorted as this is a large painting, almost twenty metres long.

Chang Dai-chien (張大千, Zhāng Dàqiān) (1899-1983) was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua (國畫, traditionalist) painter, by the 1960's he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter.

An Indian saint.

Chinese sage riding a red-crested crane.

Fiery gods of hell.

Meditating lady Buddhist saints.

Multi-headed Guanyin (觀音).

Buddha giving teachings.

A Chinese sage deep in thought.

Guanyin (觀音) giving blessings.

Guanyin (觀音) in regal stance.

This blog comes in several pages, this is Gallery 212 of the second floor galleries, click below to navigate to other sections:

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Second Floor Layout Plan National Palace Museum Taipei

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