Rural Village
Qi Baishi
Description
Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930
May 18, 2013 – September 1, 2013
Qi Baishi
China, 1864–1957
Rural Village
circa 1930
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
Gift of Katsuizumi Sotokichi, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1949/1.193
signed:
Baishi
Qi excelled at using a thick brush and wet ink wash to add nuance and expressiveness to his subject matter. Here Noguchi may be seen adopting this technique: he envelopes the baby in thick, undulating lines, controlling the ink flow by changing the pressure of his hand on the brush.
Subject Matter:
Rural village.
Physical Description:
The painting depicts three houses in a small village, surrounded by trees. There is a lake in the right-hand foreground of the painting. The artist signed his name with the seal of his pen name, Lao Pai (Pai the old man) on the upper left-hand corner.
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