24.  Nineteenth-Century Shanghai 上海 Urban Arts

Qing dynasty 1644-1911

Nineteenth-century chaos:   3 wars and 4 rebellions, including:

•  The Opium Wars 鸦片战争 , 1840-42
• Taiping Rebellion 太平天国 , 1850-64

  See Anon. A Battle Between Qing Forces and Taiping Rebels.   1860s.   Ink, color, paper. (10-28)

Issues of Identity and Community:

“More broadly, ongoing concerns with issues of identity and community might be seen as compensations for, or reactions to, a pervasive environment of political and cultural disintegration.” (Vinograd, p. 369).

Concept: visuality

Objects

Portraits:

The “Four Rens” 四任 Ren Xiong 任熊 , Ren Yi 任頤 (pupil of Ren Xiong, also known as Bonian 伯年 ), Ren Xun 任薰 (uncle of Ren Yi), and Ren Yu 任預 (son of Ren Xun).   Ren Xia 任霞 , the daughter of Ren Yi, also was famous.

Ren Xiong (1823-1857).  Self-portrait. Undated.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 5'8” x 31” (10-4)

Ren Yi (1840-1896).  The Distressed Official. 1888.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, silk; 5'3” x 29” (10-5)

Ren Yi (1840-96).  Wu Changshi Enjoying the Cool Shade of Banana Plants.   ca. 1888.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 129.5 x 58.9 cm

Ren Yi (1840-1896).  Portrait of Lu Shucheng. Dated 1884. Detail of a hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 120.3 x 50.6 cm.

Compare with diagram of face from the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual (Jieziyuan huazhuan 芥子园画传, 1818 and 1897）

Mass publications:

Photography, cartes de viste

Dowager Empress Cixi

Qi Baishi 齐白石. Portrait of Madame Li.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 128 x 68.5 cm.

The “Studio for touching the stone” illustrated newspaper, Dianshizhai huabao 点石斋画报 published 1884-1896.

Wu Youru 吳友如（Jiayou d. 1893). Thief in the Flower Garden. 1891.   Newspaper lithograph (10-21).

Sites for spectacle in the city:

Yu Gardens 豫园 , Shanghai.   (10-9)

Brothels 青楼

Commercial Art Market:

Wu Shujuan 吳淑娟 (1853-1930).   Two Female Immortals.   1909. Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 121.32 x 52.40 cm.

Ren Xia (1876-1920).   Cat on a Rock Beneath Banana Palms.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 102.5 x 55.4 cm.

Ren Yi (1840-96).  Picture of ancient bronzes (bogu tu 博古图).   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 172.5 x 80.6 cm.

Ren Xun (1835-1893).  The Interrupted Dream. From Romance of the Western Chamber 西厢记   Album leaf, ink, color, paper; 13” x 14” (10-20)