Zhongshan Yan Yun - Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting 27

Author: Lü Xiao
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Landscape painting is a unique product of Chinese civilization. For over a thousand years, it has served as a major category 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, along with the profound social changes, although the cultural penetration of landscape painting has weakened to some extent, its value and form have continued to provide and nourish later generations. It still deeply influences the current era through its dual effects—both on the practical artistic context and on the subjective cognitive structure. Comprehensive Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting organizes this vibrant and diverse history of landscape painting in an illustrated manner, presenting a relatively complete and systematic. What it reveals is not only the process of the emergence and development of landscape painting, not only the trajectory of the artists and artistic works associated with it, but also the cultural soil on which it stands, as well as the subtle and ever-evolving relationship between each generation that needs landscape painting and the painting itself. For ease of 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 volume is independent yet interconnected and resonant. This book, Zongshan Yanyun (Bell Mountain and Clouds), is the twenty-seventh volume, primarily exploring the art of the Jinling School of landscape painting in the mid-Qing Dynasty.