Jul 22, 2015 · In Western eyes the work of the Ma-Xia School, with its obvious visual and emotional appeal, came in the early twentieth century to represent the quintessence of …

Feb 14, 2015 · Fan Kuan painted a 206.3 cm (about 6.75 feet) landscape known as the Travelers among Mountains and Streams, which is considered one of the finest monumental landscape …

Oct 15, 2014 · Landscape painting started to become popular in the Sui (581–618) and Tang dynasties by the effort of Zhan Ziqian (展子虔), Li Sixun (李思訓), and Wang Wei (王維). …

This painting uses scarce mineral pigments with bright colors to depict the peaceful and prosperous country. In ancient Chinese landscape paintings, especially court paintings, the …

Feb 23, 2015 · Ma Yuan (馬遠, ca. 1160–1225) was an influential Chinese landscape painter of the Song dynasty whose work, together with that of Xia Gui (夏珪), formed the basis of the Ma …

Two major styles of landscape paintings emerged. One is known as qinglü shanshui (“blue-green landscape”) or jinbi shanshui (“gold-blue-green landscape”), in which mineral colors were …

Sep 29, 2015 · During the Sino-Japanese War, the artist zealously studied traditional Tang-Song figure painting and ancient monumental landscape painting. His love of tradition was also …

Mar 15, 2015 · Tang Yin is one of the most famous painters in the history of Chinese art. He was a pupil of the great Shen Zhou (沈周,1427–1509) and a friend of Wen Zhengming (文徵明, …

Nov 20, 2016 · The literati painting or wenrenhua (文人畫) is the ideal form of the Chinese scholar-painter who was more interested in personal erudition and expression than in literal …

Mar 5, 2015 · These sparse landscapes defy many traditional concepts of Chinese painting. Many of his works hardly represent the natural settings they were intended to depict. Ni Zan …