Tuo Gu reform

Author: Shao Qi
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Landscape painting is a unique product of Chinese civilization. For over a thousand years, it has served as the major genre of Chinese painting and a concentrated embodiment of its artistic achievements, as well as an important way for the Chinese people to observe nature, interpret the world, and carry its conceptual significance. With distinct cultural characteristics and rich expressive forms, it has participated in the construction of the artistic spirit and humanistic atmosphere of the Chinese nation. Since the 20th century, with the profound changes in society, the cultural penetration of landscape painting has weakened, but its value as a source for nourishing later generations remains deeply embedded in the contemporary era, affecting both the realities of artistic practice and the cognitive structures of individuals. Comprehensive Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting organizes this vibrant history of landscape painting in a systematic and relatively complete manner through a combination of text and images. It not only reveals the process of the emergence and development of landscape painting, but also traces the evolution of artists and artistic works associated with it. Moreover, it connects the cultural soil on which landscape painting thrives and the subtle, ever-evolving relationship between generations who seek landscape painting and the painting itself. To facilitate reading and use, the entire work is organized along the timeline of landscape painting development as the vertical axis and the fluctuation of value forms as the horizontal axis, divided into thirty-four volumes, each independent yet interrelated and complementary. This volume, Reforming by Embracing Antiquity, is the ninth in the series and primarily explores the landscape painting art of the Three Masters of the Early Yuan Dynasty.