Asian Art and History — How to Read Chinese Painting 2.0

Lecture Asian Art and History How to Read Chinese Painting 2.0 Maxwell Hearn, Ph.D. , Douglas Dillon Chair, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Join Maxwell Hearn, Ph.D., the leading curator of Chinese painting in the U.S., as he leads a lecture about the Chinese way of appreciating a painting. Often expressed by the words du hua , "to read a painting," Hearn explains the process, visually analyzing images of landscapes, flowers, figures, religious subjects and calligraphies from the encyclopedic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to elucidate what makes each a masterpiece. Hearn's How to Read Chinese Painting , published in 2008, the first in what has become a 13-volume series of "How to Read" books, remains the series' all-time bestseller, with a Chinese translation selling twice as many copies as the English edition. This presentation is part of the Asian Art and History series. Image: Griffin, Peter. Chinese Painting . Photograph from Public Domain Pictures.