Sites of Solitude

Artists in this section created landscapes that encourage the viewer to pause and to contemplate - just as one slows down when walking through a forest or stops to gaze at the colors of a sunset. Ming dynasty artist Shao Mi depicted a famous mountain in China, Mount Lu, but his small album leaf really is about the experience of being among the clouds and pines while observing a waterfall. Michigan watercolor artist, Mary Aro, created a small painting that links landscape and its components to memory and dreams. Artists and viewers thus are united in the appreciation of an ephemeral moment, even as their individual contemplations and experiences are profoundly distinct from each other's.

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