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Bamboo and Rocks in Clearing Skies
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About this work
The title written on this screen corresponds to one on a design in Taiga’s Brush Methods (大雅堂画法). The concept conveyed is one of scenery and spirit refreshed by precipitation. In the screen, a rain-filled stream rushes from the mountains into a river. A village is nestled amid giant bamboo in the distance. A platform-like flat rock in the foreground invites us to step into the scene.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBamboo and Rocks in Clearing Skies (竹巌新霽図), mid-1700s. Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776). Two-panel folding screen; ink on paper; image: 163.2 x 182.6 cm (64 1/4 x 71 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1958.337
