Songjiang School

Author: Shang Hui
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Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The Songjiang School of Painting emerged from a rebellion and transformation against the Zhejiang School and the Wumen School of Painting. Painting became a vehicle for artists to express their pure personal emotions, serving as a form of self-entertainment. This school propelled literati painting to its peak in Chinese art and dominated the landscape painting scene in the Qing Dynasty for over three hundred years. This series of books selects 15 important, influential, and representative schools of Chinese painting from among numerous schools and provides comprehensive and systematic discussions and evaluations. The time span covers over a thousand years, from the Five Dynasties period (907) to the modern era (1951), involving over 1,200 painters, art theorists, and others. The genres include landscape, flower-and-bird, and figure painting. Essentially, each school of painting builds upon the foundations of predecessors, references nature, draws inspiration from folk art, and absorbs the influence of foreign art. The emergence of each new school takes Chinese painting art one step forward. Therefore, this series can be considered, to some extent, a history of the evolution, transformation, and development of Chinese painting. It also provides historical insights into debates about Chinese painting, revealing the boundless vitality of this art form.