Wumen Fenggui - Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting 16

Author: Qi Lan
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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, it has still provided and continuously nourished the values and forms for later generations. It deeply embeds itself in the contemporary era through its dual effect of influencing both the practical artistic context and the subjective cognitive structure. Comprehensive Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting organizes this vibrant and diverse history of landscape painting in an illustrated and systematic manner. 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 landscape painting thrives, as well as the subtle and ever-evolving relationship between each generation of people who need landscape painting and the painting itself. For ease of reading and use, the entire book is organized along the chronological timeline of landscape painting as the vertical axis and the fluctuation of value forms as the horizontal axis, divided into thirty-four volumes, each independent yet interconnected and resonant. This volume, The Style of Wu Gate, is the sixteenth, focusing on the artistic characteristics of landscape painting by Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming during the Ming Dynasty.