Odes of the State of Bin: The Seventh Month
Fei Qinghu (Fei Zhaoyang) Chinese
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The album from which these leaves are drawn depicts moments from “The Seventh Month,” a lengthy poem from the Book of Odes about the yearly agricultural cycle. Using the bright blue-green mineral palette associated in Chinese painting with antiquity, the artist created vignettes of labor in tune with the land: the reaping of crops in the summer; the harvesting of ice in the winter; the performance of ritual offerings in the spring. In each of these scenes, small moments of human interaction share the stage with the drama of seasonal change.
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