# Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies 晴秋涉櫂圖

- By: Lu Zhi (Chinese, 1496-1576)
- Date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644); c. 1545
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 105.8 × 31.1 cm (41 5/8 × 17 in.)
- Culture: China
- Credit line: W. L. Mead Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/79310)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/87565374-6bad-9892-7f4f-cf3fa9e8486d/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature and man's place in it. Lu Zhi, a 16th-century artist, belonged to a class of highly educated men who painted for their own pleasure. In Distant Mountains, he used multiple ground planes and suggestive voids to create a majestic vista of jagged peaks and a meandering, wide river. Through the crystalline precision of his brush strokes, the artist achieved an image of great clarity and refinement.

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