Title:
Landscape with Scholar and Servant
Creator/Contributor:
Jen I (Po-nien; Ren Yi)
Date:
19 century A.D.
Identifier:
cc.104
Format:
Painting
Hanging scroll: ink and color on paper
China
h 69 -7/8 x w 18 -7/8 inches
Description:
"This is a painting that is tumultuous and powerful on one level and that also has subtleties. There is a figure of a man
walking up the mountain path with a servant over in the middle right, sort of hidden away, and then trees that skewer the
whole landscape, so to speak, holding it all together. Jen I uses just little areas of color to tie things together. Green
is repeated up above so you can see where the path goes, how you climb up it. It looks like it has been done very casually,
spontaneously, and probably was, and at the same time it's very solidly put together by this great master."