Date: 10 November 2014 (Wednesday) In the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), the number of artists who painted the subject bamboo greatly increased. Li Kan \u674e\u884e (1245-1320), Gao Kegong \u9ad8\u514b\u606d (1248-1310), and Zhao Mengfu \u8d99\u5b5f\u982b (1254-1322) were all famous for their bamboo paintings. My research suggests that in the earlier Song, bamboo was interpreted as possessing the qualities of a scholarly gentleman. The famous philosopher Zhu Xi \u6731\u71b9 (1130-1200), shifted focus in commentaries on bamboo so that it became a means to understand\u00a0li<\/em>, the universal principle that governs all in the cosmos. So when Zhu Xi’s theories and scholarship were endorsed by the Yuan government, many painters used some styles of bamboo to show support of the court whereas other styles of bamboo were used to show independence from the court. The aim of this paper is to examine how people in the Song to Yuan dynasties interpreted li<\/em> and how they incorporated bamboo and painted representations of bamboo. This paper explores why bamboo became a favourable subject for the acquiring knowledge of li<\/em> and how li<\/em> became a criterion to evaluate paintings within this historical context. I argue Li Kan and his followers including Ke Jiusi \u67ef\u4e5d\u601d (1290-1343) appropriated some of these Neo-Confucianist practices in efforts to revitalize the Wen Tong \u6587\u540c (1018-1079) style of bamboo for purposes of commenting on the court.<\/p>\n Speaker: Ruby Leung (PhD Candidate, Department of Fine Arts, HKU)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Li \u7406 (Universal Principle), Li Kan \u674e\u884e (1245-1320) and Yuan-Dynasty (1271-1368) Bamboo Painting Date: 10 November 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 10.28, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2669,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[170],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-2668","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-rpgseminar","tribe_events_cat-seminars","cat_seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2668\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Time: 5:00pm
\n<\/strong>Venue: Room 10.28, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n