Museum Visit

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Museum

The museum that I visited is called the National Museum of Ancient Art where I focused more on the  Parting with Words: Gentleman Artists of the Mind dynasty section.

I chose this museum because I was intrigued by some of the art that was displayed here in this museum. 

One category of the art display that caught my attention were the paintings called "Painting with words," where it displays paintings from the Ming Dynasty such as "In Full Flower" for example.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were three genres that came to be known as the "Three Perfections" due to their phenomenal expressions of Chinese literati culture.

Those three genres include calligraphy, painting, and poetry.

In Full Flower

JSTOR

The JSTOR article that I have identified with in comparison to my museum visit is called "A Chinese Painting of the Ming Dynasty." 

The reason why I chose this article is because the artist T'ang Yin comes from the Ming Dynasty just like the artists in the museum.

The T'ang Yin scroll called "The Bamboo Stove," also known as "Tea Drinking with a Bamboo Stove under the Wu T'ung Tree" depicts a "little servant boy, half sheltered by the tree trunk, gazes raptly at the monk, who rather primly sips his tea, sitting stiffly on the edge of his chair and evidently impersonating to his won satisfaction the "superior man" (Painting 35).

On the other side of the scroll shows "another servant lad, bent double, immerses something in the stream which borders the garden" (Painting 35).

The meaning of this painting describes the high art form and praise of the tea ceremony for Buddhist monks and that the bamboo stove was the central figure of the tea preparation process.

The Bamboo Grove

In Conclusion

These paintings are an extension to the environment because each painting gives a story to tell.

A painting combined with poetry can be similar to the environment and humanity: "the two together performed a well balanced duet" (Painting 36).

Just like with paintings and poetry, humanities and the environment never try to overshadow.

In truth, both of them need one another in order to continuously grow and develop.

And thus this concludes my museum visit and it was a wonderful experience.


 


Works Cited:

"Chinese Art Archives." Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 

    https://asia.si.edu/exhibitions/chinese-art/. Accessed 6 Dec. 2021.

"In Full Flower." Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 31, Aug. 2021,

    https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/in-full-flower/. Accessed 6 Dec. 2021.

Kelley, Charles Fabens. “A Chinese Painting of the Ming Dynasty.” Bulletin of the Art Institute of 

    Chicago (1907-1951), vol. 36, no. 3, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1942, pp. 34–36, 

    https://doi.org/10.2307/4113958. Accessed 6 Dec. 2021.

Yin, Tang. “Tea Drinking under the Wutong Tree.” The Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia, 

    https://www.artic.edu/artworks/40558/tea-drinking-under-the-wutong-tree. Accessed 6 Dec. 2021.

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