Artist: Ji Gong
Date: 1698
Size: 136 x 58 cm
Museum: National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Technique: Paper
In this work, which according to the inscription depicts Mr Ge’s mountain retreat, a dynamic formal structure underlies the apparent disorder of nature. A system of building a composition out of composite masses and intervening empty spaces is evident in the left middle ground of the landscape. But Daoji embellishes the landscape with surface texture and the effects of light and mist, a result of his intimate contact with nature during his wanderings in the mountains.The years spent in Peking seem to have confirmed Daoji’s rejection of ‘fang ’ imitation and the adherence of the Orthodox school to styles and conventions of the past, which had become restrictive and stifling to creativity. Daoji advocated a return to a state prior to the formulation of old conventions and also reacted against the over-intellectualisation of painting: the concern with ideas and theories, composition and brushwork.Text by Dr Mae Anna Pang © National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
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