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Lao-Tau
Riding a Buffalo
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Ch'ao
Pu-chih,
Original:
Hanging-scroll, Ink on paper, 50.6 cm X 20.4 cm
Signed
"Ch'ao Wu-chiao" with one seal "Yun-p'ing yen-chang wu-lu."
Colophon by Wang Shen
Collector's
seals: sealed "Ming Wen-tuan shih-jia t'u-shu" and with eight
Ch'ien-lung seals
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Pu-chih (1052-1110) came from Chu-shu in Chi-chou. His style name was Wu-chiao.
In later life a great admiration for T'ao Yuan-ming led him to leave his
post and adopt the nickname Kuei-lai-tzu after T'ao's famous poem of that
name. Of an easy-going personality, he read unceasingly and wrote some
exceedingly bizarre poetry. Both his painting and calligraphy are of high
quality. There was not an ancient master that he did not follow. He
modeled his Bodhisattvas on Hou Yu, his devas on Wu Tao-tzu, his pines and
rocks on Kuan T'ung. He imitated the palace scenes of Chou Fang, the
streams, soaring mountains, and riding parties of Wei Hsien; he made a
study of Han Kan's horses and Pao Ting's lions. I Yuan-chi's paintings of
monkeys and deer and Tsui Po's paintings of cranes and storks both exerted
an influence on his work.
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