Wang Xizhi Watching Geese

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After the fall of Hangzhou, the Southern Song capital, in 1276, the artist Qian Xuan chose to live as an yimin, a \u201cleftover subject\u201d of the dynasty. Painted in his deliberately primitive \u201cblue-and-green\u201d style, this handscroll illustrates the story of Wang Xizhi (\u200a\u200a303\u200a\u2013\u200a361), the calligraphy master of legendary fame and a practitioner of Daoist alchemy, who was said to derive inspiration from natural forms such as the graceful neck movements of geese. In creating a dreamlike evocation of antiquity, the artist prevented a realistic reading of his picture space as a way of asserting the disjuncture he felt after the fall of the Song royal house.

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