Page 442 - Art In The Age Of Exploration (Great Section on Chinese Art Ming Dynasty)

A gowned and capped scholar stands before a Enjoying Antiquities by the same artist (cat. mate mood as we peep through a corner crack of
fixed-frame screen in the corner of a secluded 293), the high and focused viewpoint is remi- the angular pictorial box and experience for a
garden, his only companions a large, fantastically niscent of handscroll compositions of the tenth moment the privileged life of a Chinese literatus.
weathered garden rock, banana palms, and a ser- century; here, as in those earlier paintings, the According to an inscription written for this
vant holding a scroll and lacquered box. As in isometric perspective creates an extremely inti- scroll in 1500 by the well-known calligrapher,
TOWARD CATHAY 44!