powerpoint for class...

1. ‘ Clouds and Mists That
Emanate and Sink
Away’: Shitao’s Waterfall
on Mount Lu and
practices of obser vation
in the seventeenth
centur y
By Anne Burkus Chass
Presentation by Carrie Adams, Kory Wyckoff and
Kate Durland

2. Shitao. Waterfall on
Mount Lu. Hanging
scroll, ink and colors
on silk.

3. Mount Lu or Lushan
Located in the Northern part of Jiangxi Province in
southeastern China.
One of the most renowned mountain in the country.
Part of the Lushan National Park, a world heritage site since
1996.

4. Liu Tongsheng went during
1613.
Mountain inscribed with words
of poets and famous recluses. As
well as hagiographers of
Buddhism and Daoism.

5. Guo Xi, Early
Spring,dated1072. Shitao. Waterfall on Mount
Hanging Scroll, ink and Lu. Hanging scroll, ink and
pale colors on silk. colors on silk.

6. Unlike others his writings
focus on a single feature of
the mountain.
The San Shi Liang or The
Three Bridge of Stone.
Detail from:
Shitao. Waterfall on
Mount Lu. Hanging scroll,
ink and colors on silk.

7. Sheng Maoye,
Waterfall on
Mount Lu.
Hanging Scroll,
ink and color on
silk.

8. Search for this place was prompted by
the poem “The Silver He, turned
upside down, is suspended from three
bridges of stone.” Written by Li Bai
Unlike Li Bai his description is more
map like.
Excerpt from-
A SONG OF LU MOUNTAIN TO CENSOR LU XUZHOU
I am the madman of the Chu country
Who sang a mad song disputing Confucius.
...Holding in my hand a staff of green jade,
I have crossed, since morning at the Yellow Crane Terrace,
All five Holy Mountains, without a thought of distance,
According to the one constant habit of my life.
Lu Mountain stands beside the Southern Dipper
In clouds reaching silken like a nine-panelled screen,
With its shadows in a crystal lake deepening the green
water…

9. Shitao, Eight Veiws of Huang shan. Fount
of Sounding Strings. Leaf five from album,
ink and pale color on paper.

10. Li Yin, Mountains
and Lake in the
Winter. Hanging
Scroll, ink on silk

11. Shitao, Eight
Views of the
South. Platform
of the flower-
soaking rains.
Leaf Six of eight.
Ink and pale
color on paper