Yun Jian Xiu Se - A Comprehensive Study of Chinese Landscape Painting 20

Author: Shao Qi
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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 of its artistic achievements, as well as an important way for 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 it continues to provide and nourish the values and forms that later generations draw upon. It still deeply influences the contemporary era through its dual effect on both the practical artistic context and the cognitive structure of individuals. The Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting organizes this vibrant history of landscape painting in a systematic and comprehensive manner through a combination of text and images. It not only showcases 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 to the cultural soil on which landscape painting thrives and to the subtle, ever-evolving relationship between generations of people who need 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 longitude and the fluctuation of value forms as the latitude, divided into thirty-four volumes, each independent yet interrelated and resonant. This volume, The Splendor of the Cloudy Mountains, is the twentieth, focusing primarily on the landscape painting of the Shanghai School, represented by figures such as Zhao Zuo and Shen Shichong, during the late Ming Dynasty.