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order to "warn the world/' Huang [Jishui] takes The artist's self-abnegating "It may not be Museum, and Bidding farewell at a Brushwood
it to represent those who "come around on a worthy of serious enjoyment..." is a recognition fence, at the Nanjing Museum, both by Zhou
dark night seeking alms/' while [Zhang Fengyi] that his subject matter is nonstandard by profes- Chen, demonstrate that the artist often used a
compares it to [Zheng Xia's] picture of the [An- sional as well as wen ren criteria, as well as emo- rapid, sketchy manner for declasse subjects. In
shang] Gate. These views of the two gentlemen tionally disquieting. But clearly his realistic that respect Beggars and Street Characters is not
both have their points. images did reach at least some of their moral tar- a lone gesture.
gets over the next sixty years, only to be ignored S.E.L.
In the old days [Tang] Yin, whenever he saw thereafter until the present day (the few remain-
a painting by [Zhou], would kowtow deeply ing seals on the scrolls are of recent owners).
before it and cry " Master [Zhou]!" — so much These paintings are rapid and sketchlike, as if
was he aware of not being able to equal [Zhou's] resulting from direct on-the-scene observation,
divine wonders. This album could not, I believe, despite the artist's explicit "there came to my
have been done by anyone else; I am in com- mind " Sharp memory and superb technique
plete agreement with [Tang] Yin's heartfelt combine to provide immediacy. Paintings of a
obeisance (Translation by James Cahill.) Cockfight, at the Princeton University Art

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