Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.
This is the third of five volumes from a Republican era (1911-1949) edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the artists’ Mi Youren (1074-1151) and Ni Zan’s (1301-1374) method for painting mountains. Mi Youren (1074-1151) was the son of one of the most acclaimed scholar painters of the Song dynasty (AD 960-1279), while Ni Zan (1301-1374) is known as one of the Four Yuan (dynasty) masters. The text on the right-hand page comments on the stylistic consistency between Mi father and son, and so emphasises the role of reproducing iconic standards from previous generations.
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. 89 on p. 172, pp. 118, 151, illus. p. 173 fig. 89
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