{"id":7464,"date":"2023-09-06T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2023-09-06T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:50:47","slug":"the-cleveland-museum-of-art-presents-a-seminal-survey-of-chinese-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/the-cleveland-museum-of-art-presents-a-seminal-survey-of-chinese-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Museum of Art presents a\u00a0Seminal Survey of Chinese Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Cleveland Museum of Art presents a\u00a0Seminal Survey of Chinese Art\u2014including more than 200 Objects from over\u00a030 International Collections\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLEVELAND, August 29, 2023: The Cleveland Museum of Art <\/em>is has announced the opening of\u00a0China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta<\/em><\/a>, a landmark exhibition that explores the historical and cultural riches of a pivotal region known as Jiangnan. The exhibition\u2014the first in the West to focus on this area\u2014features more than 200 objects relating to Jiangnan which has remained one of China\u2019s wealthiest, most populous, and agriculturally fertile lands.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Southern Paradise<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>shown exclusively at the Cleveland Museum of Art, opens September 10, 2023, and is on view through January 7, 2024, in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall.<\/p>\n

Through major loans from more than 30 institutions around the world and selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s world-renowned collection of Chinese art,\u00a0China\u2019s Southern Paradise<\/em>\u00a0explores the coastal region south of the Yangzi River, where the earliest remains of cultivated rice were found. Key loans from six Chinese institutions, including the Beijing Palace Museum, the Shanghai Museum, and the Nanjing Museum, bring rarely seen objects to the US that illustrate how Jiangnan gained a leading role in China\u2019s artistic production and succeeded in setting cultural standards. The exhibition also includes objects from Japan, Europe, Canada, and throughout the United States, brought together for the first time, some of which have never been presented to the public before.<\/p>\n

Jiangnan\u2019s lush, green scenery inspired poets and artists to conceive it as heaven on earth. For millennia, it has been an area of rich agriculture, extensive trade, and influential artistic production. Art from Jiangnan\u2014home to such great cities as Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing, as well as to hilly picturesque landscapes stretched along rivers and lakes\u2014has defined the image of traditional China for the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much of what we associate with traditional China today\u2014such as rice, silk and lacquer production, color printing, garden culture, landscape painting\u2014either originated or flourished in the Jiangnan region,\u201d said Clarissa von Spee, the show\u2019s curator and the James and Donna Reid Curator of Chinese Art, Interim Curator of Islamic Art and Chair of Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. \u201cTo bring these rare, unique treasures together from around the world provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\u00a0for visitors, nationally and abroad, to witness the richness and unsurpassed quality of art from a part of\u00a0China that is still associated with natural beauty, elegance,\u00a0high\u00a0culture,\u00a0and erudition. Jiangnan imagery and goods that reached 18th-century Europe shaped our idea of China more than any other region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Exhibits in\u00a0China\u2019s Southern Paradise<\/em>\u00a0range in material from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings, and date from the Neolithic age to the 18th century.<\/p>\n

Exhibition highlights include:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n