Joys of the Fisherman ca. 1410 Wang Fu Chinese A twelfth-century couplet inscribed on the wall of a tavern characterized the lives of the fisherman and the scholar-official:Right and wrong reach not where men fish;Glory and disgrace dog the official riding his horse.To painters living in the tumultuous days of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, the theme of the fisherman symbolized a perfect escape from their strife-torn world. Wang Fu, a fellow townsman of Ni Zan (1306-1374), returned to Wuxi in 1401, after twenty years of exile at the desolate northern outpost of Datong, Shanxi Province; like Ni Zan, he had been a wanderer in his native land. In this long scroll Wang echoes Wu Zhen's (1280-1354) treatment of the fisherman theme. Poised between descriptive realism and calligraphic abstraction, Wang's painting exemplifies how Ming- and Qing-dynasty scholar-artists expressed themselves through the brush idioms of the Song and Yuan masters. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork'

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Joys of the Fisherman ca. 1410 Wang Fu Chinese A twelfth-century couplet inscribed on the wall of a tavern characterized the lives of the fisherman and the scholar-official:Right and wrong reach not where men fish;Glory and disgrace dog the official riding his horse.To painters living in the tumultuous days of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, the theme of the fisherman symbolized a perfect escape from their strife-torn world. Wang Fu, a fellow townsman of Ni Zan (1306-1374), returned to Wuxi in 1401, after twenty years of exile at the desolate northern outpost of Datong, Shanxi Province; like Ni Zan, he had been a wanderer in his native land. In this long scroll Wang echoes Wu Zhen's (1280-1354) treatment of the fisherman theme. Poised between descriptive realism and calligraphic abstraction, Wang's painting exemplifies how Ming- and Qing-dynasty scholar-artists expressed themselves through the brush idioms of the Song and Yuan masters. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork'

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