© Tai Xiangzhou
Currently not on view
Miles of floating jade at the start of a clear autumn day (玉浮万里开清秋),
2017
Tai Xiangzhou 泰祥洲, born 1968, Yinchuan, China
2018-98.4
Using brush, ink, and silk, Tai alludes to the history of Chinese landscape painting during the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), when the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, tributaries of the Yangtze in southern China, became popular themes in painting and poetry. The intention of the earlier artists was not to depict an actual view of the river, but rather to capture the expressive moods associated with the setting. Their brushstrokes not only created a landscape, but also demonstrated the artist’s thoughts and emotional state, the xinyin, or “imprint of the mind.”
Information
Title
Miles of floating jade at the start of a clear autumn day (玉浮万里开清秋)
Dates
2017
Maker
Medium
Sheet; ink on silk
Dimensions
28.7 × 67.3 cm (11 5/16 × 26 1/2 in.)
frame: 43.5 × 95.2 × 1.9 cm (17 1/8 × 37 1/2 × 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Tai Xiangzhou,Tan Shengguang, Du Pengfei, Yin Tongyun, and Hu Ying, in honor of Wen C. Fong, Class of 1951 and Graduate School Class of 1958, for his instruction at Tsinghua University, Beijing
Object Number
2018-98.4
Place Made
Asia, China, Beijing
Signatures
Signed: Xiangzhou
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist’s seal
Culture
Type
Materials
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2017–2018 Tai Xiangzhou, born 1968, with Tan Shengguang, Du Pengfei, Yin Tongyun, and Hu Ying (Tsinghua University, Beijing), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2018.
