Saturday 24 August 2013

V&A Museum: Masterpieces of Chinese painting 700-1900


Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900: About the Exhibition

Anonymous, Apsaras, c.700-800, Musée Guimet, France © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée Guimet, Paris) / P. Pleynet
Anonymous, Apsaras, c.700-800, Musée Guimet, France © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée Guimet, Paris) / P. Pleynet

26 October 2013 - 19 January 2014 

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Presenting one of the world’s greatest artistic traditions, Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900 will be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see rare surviving works of art drawn from collections around the world. Explore over 70 of the finest examples of Chinese painting, from small-scale intimate works by monks and literati through to a 14 metre-long scroll painting, many of which are shown together for the first time. 

Charting the evolving styles and subjects of painting over a 1200 year period, the exhibition includes figure paintings on silk for religious sites, landscape painting and the introduction of Western influences. A significant number of these masterpieces have never been exhibited in the UK before, from banners, albums and scrolls created for a variety of settings to the materials that reveal the traditional process and techniques of painting on silk. 
The Second Zen Patriarch in Contemplation (detail)
Nine Dragons (detail)
Fragrant snow
The Palace of Nine Perfections (detail)
The Palace of Nine Perfections (detail)
The Palace of Nine Perfections (detail)
The Palace of Nine Perfections (detail)
Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk

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