File:Yang Yisun - On Happiness, Calligraphy in Seal Script Style (zhuanshu) - 1999.174.2 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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Yang Yisun: On Happiness, Calligraphy in Seal Script Style (zhuanshu)
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Yang Yisun |
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On Happiness, Calligraphy in Seal Script Style (zhuanshu) |
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On Happiness, Calligraphy in Seal Script Style (zhuanshu)  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yang Yisun transcribed this ancient text on six narrow scrolls, starting at the top right and ending at the bottom left. Yang emphasizes the text's historic nature by using the seal script style found on stone steles and bronze vessels. On Happiness features reflections of a scholar on a leisurely life in the countryside, composed by Han dynasty official Zhongchang Tong, who died the year the Han dynasty collapsed (AD 220). The idyllic life described in the text may bean evocation of the past in a time of national crisis. A decade before Yang wrote these scrolls, Anglo-French forces had looted and burned the Summer Palace in Beijing. At the same time, the domestic Taiping rebellion (1850–64), led by a religious fanatic to overthrow the Qing government, had devastated Yang's homeland, the Jiangnan region, with an estimated 20 million lives lost. |
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| Date | 1871 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Hanging scroll, ink on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 132.7 x 32.3 cm (52 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese Art |
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1999.174.2 |
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| Place of creation | China, Changsu, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | John L. Severance Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.174.2 |
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.174.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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