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Tao-Chi was born in 1641 to a distant branch of the Ming Imperial family, Chu Jo-chi ( as he was originally names) escaped, when the Ming dynasty fell to the Manchus in 1644. He regarded nature as the source of his creativity. Unlike his contemporaries, the orthodox painters of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century who viewed nature through the styles of earlier Sung and Yuan masters.
The present album of twelve leaves, which is the Arthur M. Sackler Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was painted between 1697 and 1700. Each plate faces a description.
Painting accord to Tao-Chi is an expression of the hsin - a word meaning bother mind and heart, intellect as well as feelings. For Tao-Chi, the affective aspect of his art was especially important. Employing brush and ink to write out the myriad things of heaven and earth makes my heart feel joyous, he wrote. It is this feeling of joyousness that enables Tao-Chi's art to appeal directly today to a Western audience.
CONDITION: Hard Cover, near fine in Slip Case. Some wear and scuff to Slip Case edges.
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