Curator Maxwell Hearn discusses the art of the traditional Chinese handscroll by comparing two examples from the Metropolitan Museum's collection: Old Trees, Level Distance (ca. 1085) by Guo Xi, and Twin Pines, Level Distance (ca. 1310) by Zhao Mengfu.
Maxwell Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge, Department of Asian Art
Learn more about Old Trees, Level Distance on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1981.276
Learn more about Twin Pines, Level Distance on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1973.120.5
Credits
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