This mist-shrouded pine grove where temple rooflines are faintly visible is a set motif that signals one scene, Evening Bell from the Distant Temple, from a classic series of landscape vignettes, Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, that developed among Chinese literati-artists in the eleventh century. It came to hold seminal importance in Japanese ink painting by the mid-fifteenth century, when no less than four versions of the subject were included among the Chinese paintings treasured by the Ashikaga shoguns. The impressionistic depiction in pale ink wash associates this depiction with the work of Muqi, a Chinese monk-painter active at the end of the thirteenth century in temples around the Southern Song capital at Hangzhou in southeast China. This poetic rendition of that landscape may have originally been part of a large composition that created an interior space on a sliding door panel or a folding screen. Its horizontal composition, however, recalls the original handscroll format of Muqi"s work.
Preguntas y respuestas
¿Es "Landscape" de Kano Motonobu una composición en formato vertical, horizontal o cuadrado?
"Landscape" de Kano Motonobu tiene un formato Panoramic. El formato describe las proporciones de la composición.
¿Qué nivel de contraste presenta "Landscape" de Kano Motonobu?
El nivel de contraste de "Landscape" de Kano Motonobu es Serene.
¿A qué se debe la situación de los derechos de autor de "Landscape" de Kano Motonobu?
"Landscape" de Kano Motonobu es de en el dominio público: sus derechos de autor han expirado. Los términos de derechos de autor se calculan a partir del fallecimiento del artista, y Kano Motonobu murió en 1559.