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"inscription": "The Daoist Zhongqing entrusted Laolian to paint [this]. [Seal] Zhanghou",
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"description": "Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983).",
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"title": "Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652)",
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"description": "And to: Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo National Museum, 10/4/82 - 11/17/82 as \"Chinese Painting from the Two Distinguished American Museums\"",
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4\u2013July 23, 2003).",
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"description": "Weng Tonghe \u7fc1\u540c\u9fa2 [1830\u20131904], by descent to Wango H. C. Weng",
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"description": "The twenty paintings in this double album by Chen Hongshou include landscapes, figures, and flowers. It also has one leaf featuring a woman, an often-used subject not found in the other albums from the latter part of his career. His late works are wonderful summations of Chen's peculiar and quirky art\u2014archaistic, hyper-refined\u2014but without accompanying shallowness or sentimentality.
His figures and landscapes in the late albums are miniaturized, not unlike the small Chinese gardens, or the carefully selected small table rocks or old roots used for contemplation to see the world in miniature. This loss of scale is quite deliberate and reflects the psychological situation of a depressed class like the Ming loyalist officials and scholars, deprived of their integrity and honor, and forced to lead a diminished and restricted existence.",
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"citation": "Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.",
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