GIP4 Shao Mi 720P1121
Channel: Randy Chatterjee
Date: 2012-11-22

My original intention was to devote this fourth of the Gazing Into the Past lectures to an album in the Seattle Art Museum by the late Ming artist Shao Mi. But, although that album will still be the subject of the second part of the lecture, the first part will be about the Orthodox School of landscape in the late Ming and early Qing period, and the albums of landscapes that its masters produced. In the previous lecture on Huang Gongwang, and in numbers of earlier lectures, I keep referring to this rise of Orthodox School landscape in the Ming-Qing period without stopping to discuss it in any depth, and I showed in that last lecture a single leaf by Wang Jian dated 1666, early in the Qing dynasty (which begins in 1634). This time I'll show that entire album, among other things.
                                             ----- James Cahill