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Margaret Li is a senior majoring in art history. She is interested in Asian art, interactive installations, and public space architecture. She hopes to discover positive impacts art can bring to the public, such as promoting happiness and mitigating stress. She was part of the Curatorial Project that curated Face to Face: Across Spaces and Places (spring 2023) which exhibited in the Andrews Gallery from November 3 to 28, 2023, and has an online component. After she graduates, she is planning to attend the Keio Media Design program in Japan to further develop her interests. She believes that meaningful, forward-thinking, and creative perspectives can develop through people's collaboration.
Exploring The Qingming Scroll: Why It Became One of China's Most Renowned Genre Paintings
Exploring The Qingming Scroll: Why It Became One of China's Most Renowned Genre Paintings
Zhang Zeduan, The Qingming Scroll (Qingming shanghe tu, 清明上河图), Northern Song Dynasty. Ink on silk, 24.8 cm × 528 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing.
The Qingming Scroll (Qingming shanghe tu, 清明上河图) is a renowned genre painting created by Zhang Zeduan (1085 – 1145) during the Song dynasty in the early 12th century. The Song dynasty was one of the richest and most culturally open dynasties in ancient China, with increased commercial and cultural activities. Those commercial and cultural opportunities enriched people’s daily lives. The Qinming Scroll illustrates this beautifully. Scholars today have a broad range of the scroll’s commission and provenance. The work is certainly looked at differently than when it was originally created. This paper will explore some of this controversial background and history and demonstrate that the Qingming Scroll is unique, with a lasting impact on later Chinese painting. This paper uses comparative methods to help viewers understand the distinctiveness of The Qingming Scroll, including similarities and differences with the leading artistic style of the time, aesthetic differences between the Tang and Song dynasties, and comparisons with another version of The Qingming Scroll.
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