Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.
This is the second of five volumes of a Republican era (1911-1949) edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the 11th century painter Guo Xi’s method for painting trees. Guo Xi is one of China’s most famous artists. He also wrote about landscape painting in an essay that provides instruction as well as comments on theory. He grew up on the edge of north China’s majestic Taihang mountain range, where Xu Bing lived during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and later, for several months, while he was a student. This edition previously belonged to the famous linguist and scholar of Chinese poetry and painting, Dr Arthur Waley (1889-1966).
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 85 on p. 168, pp. 118, 119, 151, 152, illus. p. 152 fig. 6, p. 168, fig. 85
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