Pietà
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Title
Pietà
Subject
Painting; Christianity; Virgin Mary
Description
The expression of pain and suffering occupies a significant place in Lin Fengmian work. In this context, the use of Christian iconography provides the artist with subjects that allow him to express the most poignant emotions. In many respects, the exploration of the suffering body appears as the practical application of reflections from the late 1920s. Questioning the relationship between art and the sacred in the history of Western art, Lin Fengmian defined art as an affective migration from the work to the viewer. At that time, the artist was moving towards a convergence between East and West, not hesitating to relinquish part of his Chinese heritage. Yet in the Pietà, he uses the traditional means of the Eastern painter: ink and paper.
Creator
Lin Fengmian
Source
Cernuschi Museum, Paris
Publisher
Cernuschi Museum, Paris
Date
Around 1940
Contributor
Jeanne Doraisamy Péqueux
Rights
This work is public domain
Format
Paper; Ink; Pigment Paint
Type
Painting
Collection
Citation
Lin Fengmian, “Pietà,” The Representation of China and the World, accessed April 12, 2026, https://chinaandtheworld.omeka.net/items/show/109.