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




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