History of Chinese Painting

Author: Pan Tianshou
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The aesthetician Wang Yangwen reviewed the author, calling him an extraordinary philosopher. He believed that the author's paintings possessed character, thought, and philosophy, serving as an extension of traditional artistic lineage and a microcosm of his era. He is regarded as one of the great masters of Chinese art in the 20th century, a synthesizer and innovator of traditional Chinese painting techniques, an outstanding art educator and theorist, a giant of the generation who drew from the past to pioneer the future, and a distinguished modern master painter, a guardian of the soul. He had a formidable character, a fearless spirit of reform, and an extraordinary, transcendent, yet melancholic and empty heart. Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian figures often appear in most of his character paintings. The suffering of real life and the solitude of the soul pushed him to the point of wanting to become a monk.
Scholars or enthusiasts of Chinese art history, researchers or enthusiasts of comparative studies between Chinese and Western painting, proponents or opponents of Chinese style, scholars or enthusiasts of modern Chinese art, and supporters or opponents of Pan's style, as well as high school and university students.