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Schildering
Gao Qipei (ca. –ca.)
1700 - 1750
- Medium
- paper, ink, dye
- Classification
- finger painting
- Dimensions
- height 27.2 cm x width 33.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Mayuyama Junkichi, Tokyo, 1955)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Ship approaching the waterfront. Gao Qipei (1660 - 1734). China c. 1700. Ink and colours on paper. The finger painter Gao Qipei was an experimental artist. 'The hand should be allowed to paint as it wishes, ' he wrote. He was fascinated by the unpredictability of a line drawn with a finger or nail. In the centre of this album page is a bird's-eye view of a boat. The hills in the foreground, however, are shown from a low perspective. A combination of various vantage points is a feature of Gao Qipei's work. The inscription, right: 'Little boat sails along mountains piled up a thousandfold' - this line by the old poet has not disappointed me. Qipei.
