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Wang Yun (style name Hanzao, sobriquet Qingchi) was a native Gaoyou in Jiangsu. He was famous in the Jiangnan and Huainan regions during the Kangxi era. His paintings of figures and buildings were very similar to those of the famous Ming artist Qiu Ying, and he also did “sketching ideas” landscapes, achieving the harmony of Shen Zhou’s style. He maintained frequent contact with such prominent figures in painting circles at the time as Wang Hui and Yang Jin.
This painting is a copy after a work by the Northern Song artist Li Cheng. With a few wintry trees depicted by the shore of a river, the climate is desolate and the sky brooding as a flock of jackdaws noisily circles above. The loneliness of a wintry forest and the cawing of jackdaws create a dichotomy of stillness and movement as well as silence and sound. This scene embellished with jackdaws is a message for change in the seasons, symbolizing the unlimited potential for life contained therein.
Ms. Lo-Sun P’ing-tsung donated this painting to the National Palace Museum in 1987.(20110204)
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