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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
Collection
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Creator Name:
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Hua Yen (Hua Yan)
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Hua Yen (Hua Yan)
Creator Name
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Title:
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Brush Fire with Animals Fleeing
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Brush Fire with Animals Fleeing
Title
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Collection Title Date:
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12th century - 20th century
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12th century - 20th century
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Title Date:
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18 century A.D.
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18 century A.D.
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Place of Origin/Discovery:
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China
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China
Place of Origin/Discovery
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Materials:
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Album leaf mounted as hanging scroll: ink and color on paper
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Album leaf mounted as hanging scroll: ink and color on paper
Materials
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Dimensions:
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h 21 x w 20 -3/4 inches
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h 21 x w 20 -3/4 inches
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Current Location:
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Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
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Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Current Location
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Address:
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Berkeley, CA 94720
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Berkeley, CA 94720
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Object ID:
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cc.64
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cc.64
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Provenance:
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On extended loan from the Nicholas Cahill Collection
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On extended loan from the Nicholas Cahill Collection
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Object Type:
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Painting
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Painting
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Description
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Description
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Notes:
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"Hua Yen is a major, very versatile artist of the first half of the eighteenth-century . . . and very famous now. Quite a lot of his work is around, but this is a very special subject. [When I bought this work] it looked kind of coarse, with a five-character title, plus the seal of Hua Yen, but no signature. And it was not published. [However] the animals are very sensitively painted. You can see through the smoke and fire and see the line of red fire going across. [There is] wonderful use of ink, a highly unconventional painting. In this period, in Yangchou, and in eighteenth-century painting generally, something gives way in the restrictions on subject matter and suddenly they could do things with sort of ominous or painful overtones. This has become a favorite painting, partly because it breaks the rules. Over the years, as I have said to many people now, I have come to value more the odd corners, the dissidents, the unorthodox, I mean people who really break the rules. There are lots of painters in Yangchou who are eccentric, but [I mean] painters who really break new ground, like this one."
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"Hua Yen is a major, very versatile artist of the first half of the eighteenth-century . . . and very famous now. Quite a lot of his work is around, but this is a very special subject. [When I bought this work] it looked kind of coarse, with a five-character title, plus the seal of Hua Yen, but no signature. And it was not published. [However] the animals are very sensitively painted. You can see through the smoke and fire and see the line of red fire going across. [There is] wonderful use of ink, a highly unconventional painting. In this period, in Yangchou, and in eighteenth-century painting generally, something gives way in the restrictions on subject matter and suddenly they could do things with sort of ominous or painful overtones. This has become a favorite painting, partly because it breaks the rules. Over the years, as I have said to many people now, I have come to value more the odd corners, the dissidents, the unorthodox, I mean people who really break the rules. There are lots of painters in Yangchou who are eccentric, but [I mean] painters who really break new ground, like this one."
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h: Hsin-lo shan-jen
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h: Hsin-lo shan-jen
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Hua Yen was born in Lin-t'ing, Fuchien province, but moved to Hangchou and then Yangchou, both major painting centers in the early eighteenth century. He was very active with a group of artists who had been involved in various ways with the late seventeenth-century painter Tao-chi. By the 1730s, Hua Yen's compositions follow those of that master of the spontaneous and unexpected.
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Hua Yen was born in Lin-t'ing, Fuchien province, but moved to Hangchou and then Yangchou, both major painting centers in the early eighteenth century. He was very active with a group of artists who had been involved in various ways with the late seventeenth-century painter Tao-chi. By the 1730s, Hua Yen's compositions follow those of that master of the spontaneous and unexpected.
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t: Ch'iu-yÿ¼eh
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t: Ch'iu-yÿ¼eh
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Collection Description:
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hyperlink
Collection Description
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/ft5n39n7b f
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