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Amid the spacious and magnificentlytwisting and turning of images, lending
wooded campus with old growth trees, wea softness to the works. These pieces
approached the red brick, eclectichad such a naturalistic look with an
Victorian, late 19th Centuryuncanny resemblance to early
University Fine Arts Museum building,photographic negatives, with darks and
AKA, "Old Gym." We hadlights being reversed. I bonded with a
arrived--destination VanderbiltWestern Han Dynasty bronze tripod vessel
University, Nashville TN, five millenniaused to cook meat. Heavy , substantial
of Chinese art.and well designed, I wondered what kinds
As avid University Museum buffs, thisof meals it cooked in its time.
was a new "site." Joseph Mella, museumThis exhibit included bronze vessels,
director, kindly lead us through thecarvings in jade, Buddhist images,
exhibit --Beauty and Power: Chinese Artlacquer pieces, ceramic ware, arts of
from the Vanderbilt University Fine Artsthe tomb, scholarly paintings and
Collection.ancestral portraits. Joseph Mella gave a
The wood floored, high ceilinged galleryvery complete description of the genesis
held 66 pieces dating from within theof the present collection with detailed
Neolithic period (6000-2000 B.C.E.) toaccounts of many of the patrons who made
Qing Dynasty pieces (1616-1911).the collection possible through generous
Perched on a platform above eye levelgifts over the past 35 years. One
was a life sized Buddhist sculpture.strikingly elegant piece was called
This Bodhisattva (a BuddhistVessel with incised Lilies. This Ding
designation for one who postponeswhite porcelain vase was made for the
Nirvana until all sentient beings haveRoyal Family from the Northern Song
been saved) was made of clay withDynasty. It was donated in 1999 and, as
painted and gilded decoration. Gazingone of the collection highlights, is
with eyes from the 17th Century, itsvalued at $200,000.
serene face and meditative lotus poseWe returned the following day to spend
captured our attention and "held us."more time encountering the beauty and
Pieces which let us travel further backthe power of the pieces and felt awed to
in time were two jade ritual funeraryhave been in touch with "glimpses" of
objects from Neolithic gravesites. Apast Chinese life, through its art. The
green "bi Disk" was of flat circulargallery offers a quiet setting to
form with a smaller concentric opening.experience works. This exhibit closed
A second piece was in the form of aSeptember 22 and was in conjunction with
four sided cylinder. Referred to as aa lecture on September 20, 2007 entitled
"cong" this object for the dead had anSino-Tibetan Tankas for the Ming Court,
incised surface and a most perfectlygiven by Marsha Haufler, Professor of
formed hollow shaft interior. What wasArt History at the University of Kansas.
this tomb piece used for? Suggestion wasA new exhibit entitled More Than One:
that it was a protective object, used inNew Contemporary Prints and Multiples
the afterlife. We mused on thefrom the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts
significance of using jade.Collection will run from October 4 -
Eugene was inspired by a group of fourDecember 7, 2007
Qing dynasty scrolls. The free brushVanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
work of paint on the long and narrowis located at 23rd and West End
black paper showed the use ofAvenues, Nashville, Tn.
"chiaroscuro " to shade out the



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