"We've gone from the solid world into this confrontation with the ultimate emptiness of life."
Curator Maxwell K. Hearn on "Cloudy Mountains," a handscroll by Fang Congyi.
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How this Chinese scroll confronts us with our own mortality
"We’ve gone from the solid world into this confrontation with the ultimate emptiness of life."
Maxwell K. Hearn
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Maxwell K. Hearn
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Fang Congyi
ca. 1360–70