Fish and Rocks
The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
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Fish and Rocks

mid- to late 1600s
Bada Shanren (Chinese, 1626–1705) visual detail
ArtistBada Shanren (Chinese, 1626–1705)
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Zhang Daqian 張大千 [1899–1983]

?–1953

Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1953–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Zhang Daqian 張大千 [1899–1983] Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

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Asia and the West. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 28-December 1, 1957). The Dragon and the Star. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (September 30-October 6, 1958). 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959). Chu Ta: Selected Paintings and Calligraphy. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (organizer) (December 2, 1972-January 28, 1973); The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (February 28-April 15, 1973). The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974). 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). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016). Layers of Meaning: China’s Flora and Fauna in Painting and on Porcelain. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2020-June 6, 2021). Masterpieces of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1960). Chu Ta. Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (February 28-April 14, 1973). Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-April 7, 2004).

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Bada Shanren, also called Zhu Da, a 17th-century painter who rejected conventions in favor of an individual, personal expression, is known for his unorthodox compositions of fish, flowers, birds, and rocks. Fish in his paintings are often looking upward toward heaven, swimming in a pond of undefined space. <br><br>As a member of the Ming imperial family, Zhu Da lost his princely status and hid in a monastery when the Manchus, foreigners from the north, established the Qing dynasty in 1644. This scroll may have some autobiographical meaning, representing fish as leftover subjects (<em>yimin</em>) who lived in a void, having lost their roles in life after the fall of the dynasty.

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