Tour
Docent Talks: Water-Moon Guanyin/Avalokiteshvara
Join us for an in-depth look at a key artwork from the collection.
Enliven your visit with an in-depth look at a key artwork from the collection. Each twenty-minute talk highlights a single artwork. The Water-Moon Guanyin is a compassionate deity that contemplates the illusion of the world while offering mercy to suffering devotees. Wooden statue depictions like this one were central to eleventh-century Chinese Buddhist monasteries.
Meet in gallery 16, Chinese Art (3rd floor).
This event is included with General Admission.
Image: The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), China. Song dynasty (960-1279). Wood (paulownia) with pigments. Asian Art Museum, The Avery Brundage Collection, B60S24+. Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
