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'Fossilization in the Art Center'
Hangscroll 54.7 x 110.7 cm on silk

 

Artist's Comment
An impression of 'The Art Center' by Han Huang (723-787) . The original depicted the scene in which several literati sat at the Relaxation Stones to spend their leisure time by composing poems while engaging in phrase-mongering. Repeated examination of the original does not give a very clear idea whether the characters in it were human beings or stones and thus the inspiration of producing the present painting. Does it imagine the feeling against the pedantic attitude and the conservative idea? Does it express the philosophic theory in the traditional Chinese culture that human beings may eventually merge with nature? Or-

 

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Zhu Cheng

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