Explore the continued tradition of Chinese landscape painting in this complement to the Xu Bing show.
Pan Dinglan was born at Changning near Huizhou, Guangdong province. Little is known of his life; he is reputed to have been good at calligraphy, landscape and figure painting. The inscription on this painting reads: ‘After a light shower on the blue mountain, it becomes clear in the evening; the trees are layers upon layers, from which develops the atmosphere of a painting. [I] still remember years ago [when I spent] the nights in school, there were lights at the window and the sounds of recitation’.
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 105 on p. 122, illus. p. 123 fig. 105
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