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Location: Walters’ Graham AuditoriumLimited capacity. Registration required.
To register to attend, please go here: https://thewalters.org/event/ford-2021/
The Chinese way of appreciating a painting is often expressed by the words du hua, “to read a painting.” In this lecture, Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairman of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will visually analyze select paintings and calligraphies from the encyclopedic collection of the Met, revealing what makes each significant. Spanning a thousand years of Chinese art from the 8th through the 17th century, the lecture will examine multiple layers of meaning—style, technique, symbolism, past traditions, and the artist’s personal circumstances—in the treatment of landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, religious subjects, and calligraphies, in order to illuminate the main goal of every Chinese artist: to capture not only the outer appearance of a subject but also its inner essence.
This lecture is generously sponsored by John and Berthe Ford.
Please note that this program will be recorded and made available on our YouTube channel.
Hearn's book How to Read Chinese Paintings is available to purchase from the Walters Art Museum Store: https://store.thewalters.org/products/how-to-read-chinese-paintings
Image: Qian Xuan (Chinese, 1239–1301), Wang Xizhi watching geese, ca. 1295, handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973, acc. no. 1973.120.6
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Walters Art Museum, 600 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States