Period:Unknown Production date:18thC(late)-19thC(early)
Materials:paper
Technique:painted
Subjects:poetry landscape
Dimensions:Height: 27.20 centimetres Width: 646.50 centimetres
Description:
Painting, handscroll. Selection of Chinese poems accompanied with illustrations of landscapes. Ink and light colours on paper. Inscribed and sealed.
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![图片[1]-painting; handscroll BM-1979-0409-0.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Paintings/mid_00031251_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-painting; handscroll BM-1979-0409-0.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Paintings/mid_00538426_001.jpg)
Comments:Hizo Nihon bijutsu taikan Vol 2Gessen (1741-1809) was a painter-priest of the Jodo sect of Japanese Buddhism, born in Nagoya. In his youth he entered Zojoji in Edo, where he was given his first instruction in painting by Sakurai Sekkan; then, at the beginning of the Meiwa era (1764-72), he went to the capital of Kyoto, where he came under the influence of Maruyama Okyo and Yosa Buson. Gessen himself specialized in human figures and landscapes, developing a personal manner combining a drawn-from-life realism with the Literati style.The present scroll consists of a series of landscapes, inscribed with Chinese verse in lines of five characters each, strongly influenced by Literati taste. The longing for escape from the world expressed by the poems relies more on rhetorical flourish than on content, intellectualization substituting for any real emotion. This quality in the verse is matched by the pictures themselves, which, though presenting various types of scenes, invariably assume well-worn forms conveying a definite whiff of the commonplace.Gessen painted a large number of similar scrolls of landscapes and human figures with Chinese poems inscribed. His days seem to have been largely spent in producing quantities of both pictures and verse, his Buddhist calling and his life as amateur poet-calligrapher and painter joining in a kind of uneasy coexistence.
Materials:paper
Technique:painted
Subjects:poetry landscape
Dimensions:Height: 27.20 centimetres Width: 646.50 centimetres
Description:
Painting, handscroll. Selection of Chinese poems accompanied with illustrations of landscapes. Ink and light colours on paper. Inscribed and sealed.
IMG
Comments:Hizo Nihon bijutsu taikan Vol 2Gessen (1741-1809) was a painter-priest of the Jodo sect of Japanese Buddhism, born in Nagoya. In his youth he entered Zojoji in Edo, where he was given his first instruction in painting by Sakurai Sekkan; then, at the beginning of the Meiwa era (1764-72), he went to the capital of Kyoto, where he came under the influence of Maruyama Okyo and Yosa Buson. Gessen himself specialized in human figures and landscapes, developing a personal manner combining a drawn-from-life realism with the Literati style.The present scroll consists of a series of landscapes, inscribed with Chinese verse in lines of five characters each, strongly influenced by Literati taste. The longing for escape from the world expressed by the poems relies more on rhetorical flourish than on content, intellectualization substituting for any real emotion. This quality in the verse is matched by the pictures themselves, which, though presenting various types of scenes, invariably assume well-worn forms conveying a definite whiff of the commonplace.Gessen painted a large number of similar scrolls of landscapes and human figures with Chinese poems inscribed. His days seem to have been largely spent in producing quantities of both pictures and verse, his Buddhist calling and his life as amateur poet-calligrapher and painter joining in a kind of uneasy coexistence.
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