© 2003, Zhang Hongtu
Currently not on view
Shitao - Van Gogh PUAM,
2002–03
Zhang Hongtu 張宏圖, born 1943, Pingliang, China; active New York, NY
2003-144
In Shitao—Van Gogh PUAM, Zhang restages the early Qing artist Shitao’s An Ancient House under Tall Pine Trees (about 1700), by painting it in the style of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), who was himself influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Of his frequent appropriation of canonical motifs and styles, both Eastern and Western, Zhang has said, "Everybody knows these are clichés, but I use them because they are something I have in common with people—they are public images, which I try to let people see from a new angle."
Information
Title
Shitao - Van Gogh PUAM
Dates
2002–03
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Painting: 239.4 × 97.2 × 4.8 cm (94 1/4 × 38 1/4 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2003-144
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed
Inscription
2 artist's inscriptions on upper left of painting;
artist's inscription above image: "Shitao chang song lao wu tu"
Title on painting: Shitao An Ancient House under Tall Pine Trees
An angry lion tearing at a rock,
A thirsty steed galloping to a spring,
Wind and rain gathering,
Mist and clouds in myriad shapes,
Sublime and unworldly,
Calm, steady, and straightforward.
I apply these feelings with my brush and ink.
Will not the connoisseur upon seeing this die of laughter?
Ignored the wind, rain, mist and clouds described in the poem but remade it my way, I give you my apologies, Shitao.
Marks/Labels/Seals
11 seals (painted)
Culture
2002-2003 Zhang Hongtu, born 1943 (New York, NY), sold to to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2003.
