Symposium at the Metropolitan Museum on Chinese Paintings Dec. Metropolitan. Museum Holds Chinese Art Symposium. Wang Defend It. Very large detail. Metropolitan Museum of . Tang Family, formerly in the collection of. C. Actual painting is not as strongly contrasted. By. Carter B. Horsley. The. Metropolitan Museum of Art held an extraordinary all- day symposium. December 1. 1, 1. Dong Yuan (active 9. C. Wang, a noted. Tang to the museum on its front page in 1. The. painting's attribution to Dong Yuan, however, has been challenged. Chinese art experts, such as James Cahill, the. Chinese painting, and Sherman Lee, the. Cleveland Museum of Art and the author. Far East Asian Art. Cahill has argued. Century forgery by Zhang Daqian (1. C. Wang acquired the. Both Cahill and Lee participated in the symposium, and C. Wang sat in the first row of the museum's auditorium and had. Mr. Many of the paintings. Wen Fong. challenged (see The City Review article), but this symposium did not. 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Despite. the fact that the symposium took up most of the day and each speaker. Many of the speakers simply referred. Robert Harrist Jr., who moderated the afternoon sesssion's. Riverbank as a tenth- century work. Jerome Silbergeld, the. Browse the 579 80s titles featured at the award winning '80s Movies Rewind. With movie trailers and video previews. University of Washingtonon who. Clearly, the challenges. Wen. Fong issued a long statement in addition to his prepared remarks. Moreover, its condition is definitely less. Wang bring a lot of. Wen Fong claimed that the museum's. Chinese paintings from C. Wang represented. Wang's dealings that. C. While an immensely. Zhang Daqian, shown below in. Computer. drawing based on a photograph of Zhang Daqian. There. are important reputations at stake in this controversy and the. Metropolitan Museum of Art has not wavered in its steadfast support. Wen Fong. The decisions to hold the symposium and issue the. It has not, of course. Wen Fong's interpretations of Chinese Art History, but. There. are several possible interpretations of the Riverbank controversy. Wen Fong, C. Wang and Zhang Daqian conspired to defraud. Douglas Dillon and Thomas P. Hoving. (2) Wen Fong and C. Wang are wrong and have been duped by a. Zhang Daqian . Wang. Dong Yuan, but the. Wen Fong and C. Wang are right. As presented. in the symposium book and his additional . Wen. Fong's primary defense was that an intellectual intepretation. Such an argument plays on the almost mythic. Dong Yuan since so few works survive that are attributed. Dong Yuan . Many of those problems, it is true, stemmed more from. The issue is far more important. Brooklyn Museum of Art over. Wang acquisitions by the Metropolitan tainted? Some. observers may argue that even if some of them may have been ambitiously. Western interest in. Western cultures and traditions. Had Wen Fong and the museum. Several. speakers at the symposium maintained that such issues cannot be. Who is eligible to vote? Who determines. who are the experts? Art. experts are not certified or licensed. Some are heads of departments. Others may work at auction. Much. of Wen Fong's support comes from his former students. Presumably. Cahill has similar supporters. While. much of the debate might seem esoteric to many, there is no reason. The symposium was a good, indeed historic. The. museum should convene another symposium in a year or so. This. symposium devoted about three- quarters of its time, however, to. Too little time was left for debate and. The next symposium should simply. Cahill and Wen Fong and a moderator, presumably Jerome Silbergeld. An Internet hook- up should. Chinese Art departments at major. Chinese paintings, and perhaps even some well- known art critics. Dong Yuan, the dating of the work. Zhang Daqian. Far from being an exercise in an. West, such a continued investigation. The Metropolitan and Wen Fong. Connoisseurs. of Western art can begin to appreciate Eastern art, but it is. Chinese painting involves. Although virtually every element. Riverbank can be found in his other paintings, whether. Zhang. combine these particular elements into such an impressive and. While in no other fabrications he employed one. Riverbank to avoid distingushable brushstrokes. Those trained the Chinese. This. aspect of Riverbank, along with the dynamic energies generated. Zhang's other forgeries of. Zhang Daqian could not. Nowhere can one see fog spreading so extensively. The whole area is essentially. Perhaps Zhang. meant it to be read as the murkiness of a rainstorm, but it is. So many features of the painting point. Riverbank a. pastiche.. Riverbank is not consistently in any period. But in Zhang Daqian's landscapes, as this and other. Cahill quotes Fu Shen's 1. Zhang Daqian's works that Zhang believed. The closest to it, noted also by Fu Shen. National Palace Museum, Taipei, ascribed. Dong Yuan, and titled Summer Mountains Before Rain. Chen (Chen. Rentao), who published it in 1. It. differs from its model in two notable ways: the blurry brushwork. Zhang's style discussed below, and the top of the. Why Zhang allowed this to happen. Riverbank. and one found nowhere in early Chinese painting. A clue to understanding. Zhang's forgeries may be recognized in. Mountain Temple and Drifting Clouds in the Manner of Dong Yuan. Here, he employs a compositional device favored. Ming painter and critic Dong. Qichang (1. 55. 5- 1. Deleting even this inconclusive ending (an easy move). Zhang's forgery of. Juran Temples among Steams and Hills, discussed above. Riverbank. In its dynamic build- up of the mountainside. Mountain Temple is strikingly similar to Riverbank main features. These forms are. conspicuous also in other of Zhang's early forgeries, such as. Liu Daoshi (active late 1. One may. even feel that here Zhang has given himself away by using so blatantly. In his. long inscription on Mountain Temple, Zhang writes that. Dong Yuan in his. Two years later, in the inscription on Immortals'. Dwellings. What he had really mastered in the course of. Dong Yuan's style as a system of forms and compositional devices. Chinese term) that would serve as a repertory for his. A spurious Juran handscroll. Myriad Ravines. A hanging scroll in the same style. Dense Groves and Layered Peaks. The scenery. it presents, like that of the handscroll Myriad Ravines. Juran painting should look, the forger had considerable. Wind on the River, a handscroll once attributed. Northern Sung master Yan Wengui (active ca. March 1. 99. 9, is another work that has many features. Riverbank - the profusion of windblown trees. Cahill's. fifth count is that . This contention is odd. Instead, the ink is rubbed onto the silk. In this, of course. Chinese landscape painting, where the brushstrokes. Wintry Groves. and Layered Banks, ascribed in Dong Yuan in the Kurokawa Institute. Ancient Cultures. The argument. has been made that the brush technique in Riverbank represents. Chinese landscape painting before texture- stroke. Riverbank. agrees with two generally accepted tenth- century paintings, A. Chess Party in the Mountains. Moreover, while. they are not uniformly distinct, the brushstrokes tend to be linear. The result is a landscape in which spaces are strongly. The same is true in Wei Xian's Lofty Scholar. Again, the masses. There is no real ambiguity. Let us compare Riverbank. This is not a deliberate. Guo Xi's (ca. Often we cannot be sure whether one form. For example, if we try to. We find a comparable. British Museum's. Dense Forests and Layered Peaks. It is in a different. Riverbank, but the application of ink is similar. The same kind of brushwork, more visible. Retreat in the Yayi Mountains. Wang Meng, a signed 1. Zhang Daqian. The silk. British Museum picture and Riverbank increases. A representational problem caused by this 'strokeless'. British Museum painting where the trees. This confused merging of forms. Riverbank. It is because of such. Richard Barnhart has likened the rendering of earth. Riverbank to that in Zhao Gan's. First Snow along the River. This comparison strikes me. Riverbank comes off so badly in this. Zhao Gan work, in which the forms are consistently. Riverbank. The. artist, I submit, was very familiar with this compositional method. Dong Qichang and his followers, and. Besides the domination. Here. the dynamic forms are limited to a particular area of the composition. Zhang Daqian's fondness for over- animated compositions. Clear Morning over Lakes and Mountains. The heavy shadowing in the ravines and crevices that. Riverbank, enhancing the overall. Qing artist Wang Hui (1. Nothing. of the kind can be found in early landscapes; the lighting in. Guo Xi's Early Spring, for instance, is very different. Zhang. Daqian could not resist dramatizing, making his 'early' pictures. And Riverbank. is indeed exciting in this way. Returning to the quieter world of genuinely. Chinese landscape, consider the Song- period work in the. Juran manner, Xiao Yi Seizing the Lanting Manuscript. The. lighting is not naturalistic, but rather gives the effect of an. This is what so strikingly distinguished Zhang Daqian's. Juran's Dense Forests and Layered Peaks. One. sees the same lighting in another recognized Zhang forgery, Drinking. Singing at the Foot of a Precipitous Mountain.
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