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What a Glorious Land!

What a Glorious Land!

born 1965

Lee Chun-Yi (Li Junyi) 李君毅

Chinese

This handscroll depicts a range of tree-covered mountains shrouded in mist. A title written by the artist precedes the painting; the title is a line from a 1936 poem by Mao Zedong and reads "Jiangshan ruci dou jiao". It can be translated as "What a Glorious Land!", though it is also translated as "This land, so rich in beauty."

Handscroll; ink on paper; with signature in clerical script (lishu) reading "Li Junyi ling wu" (Li Junyi '05); with colophon by Liu Guosong (b. 1932) dated 2006

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