id: 293323
accession number: 2020.146
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.146
updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:13.759000
Poetic Pattern of Song Ware, 2016. Zeng Xiaojun (Chinese, b. 1954). Ink and color on paper; 164.3 x 163.8 cm (64 11/16 x 64 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.146 © Zeng Xiaojun
title: Poetic Pattern of Song Ware
title in original language: 宋人詞意
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creation date: 2016
creation date earliest: 2016
creation date latest: 2016
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creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
copyright: © Zeng Xiaojun
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culture: China, Beijing
technique: ink and color on paper
department: Drawings
collection: Drawings
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Zeng Xiaojun (Chinese, b. 1954) - artist
Born in Beijing in 1954, Zeng Xiaojun graduated from the Central Art and Craft Academy of Fine Arts in 1981. Two years later, he moved to the United States and lived for the next fourteen years in Boston, where he exhibited and taught until 1997. While in America, his deep connoisseurship in classical Chinese furniture and objects of the traditional scholar’s studio developed. He collects antique furniture, scholar’s rocks, and fantastical roots, which the Chinese literati have long prized, and these traditionally prized objects become subjects of his ink paintings. Zeng Xiaojun continues the tradition of Chinese ink paintings but reinvigorates and reinterprets it for contemporary society.
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measurements: 164.3 x 163.8 cm (64 11/16 x 64 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists (Chinese art rotation)
opening date: 2020-02-06T05:00:00
Spotlight on a New Generation: Contemporary Chinese Artists (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 6-August 16, 2020).
title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Recent Paintings by Zeng Xiaojun 曾小俊新作. Eskenazi Ltd., London, UK (October 5-November 25, 2016).
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PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
date: 2016
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(Eskenazi Ltd., London, United Kingdom, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley)
date: 2016
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Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 2016–2020
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: March 2, 2020–
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fun fact:
Zeng Xiaojun graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Design in Beijing in 1981, specializing in mural painting.
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Contemporary artist Zeng Xiaojun is known for depicting tree trunks and rocks in draftsman-like fashion in the traditional Chinese medium of ink and paper. Inspired by a small, 11th-century Song dynasty dish in the artist’s own collection, Poetic Pattern of Song Ware is unusual in subject matter. Fascinated by the dish’s contrasting black and beige clay marbling, Zeng made an ink drawing of a graphic, abstract design on a monumental scale. The rendering of the marbling in lobed sections creates a unique three-dimensional effect and rhythm, not seen in the small dish CMA 2020.187.
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