River Landscape, Li Liufang, 1618
Li Liufang, portrétLi LiufangČína, 1575–1629

River Landscape

1618 · Painting · 30.16 × 529.75 cm

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Dry, spare strokes define Li Liufang's River Landscape (1618), in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. This early work differs from the wetter, inkier manner he developed in the 1620s. Within a controlled technique, Li repeats familiar brush movements to produce an abstract impression of river scenery without narrative or descriptive detail. He painted it for his own pleasure, perhaps also for a few friends. After failing the highest civil-service examination twice, Li devoted himself to poetry, writing and painting at his Sandalwood Garden studio near Jiading.

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Li Liufang was born in Jiading, Jiangsu province. In 1606 he passed the Ju Ren degree but failed twice to gain the Jin Shi degree with its access to high government service. He turned instead to literati pursuits and established the Tan Yuan (Sandalwood Garden) studio near his hometown of Jiading and became a prolific poet, writer and painter. He was a close friend of the literati artist Cheng Jiasui (1565-1644) and admiring critics included both among the Nine Friends of Painting and the Four Masters of Jiading.

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Li Liufang's earlier paintings were drier; more lineal and spare then his mature inky wet style of the 1620's. In this elegant, early landsape Li appears focused on the endless rewards of abstract ink play. While the dry brushwork is structured and disciplined, the artist remained free to explore and create; experimenting within a narrow technical framework repeating the familiar over and over in what becomes an essentially unconscious, unlabored exercise in brush and ink manipulation. The result is an elegant, beautifully abstract impression of river scenery. Bereft of narrative and descriptive detail, it was done only to please the artist or perhaps a few close friends.

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