Tang, Song, Yuan Sixteen Masters Landscape Painting Technique Illustrated

Author: Liu Songyan
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: This book is created based on 16 ancient landscape albums by the master of the "Zhe School" painting, Lan Ying, which include techniques of 16 different schools of landscape painting from the Tang, Five Dynasties, Northern Song, Southern Song, and Yuan dynasties. The book provides brief introductions to the lives and artistic characteristics of each painter, as well as detailed step-by-step technical analyses of line work, scraping, dotting, ink staining, and color setting for each piece. The publication of this book fills the long-standing gap in the lack of such technical books. It also includes a guide on learning stages for landscape painting, brief interpretations of important arguments in Chinese art theory throughout history, and recommended reference books for self-study of Chinese painting, helping beginners to learn systematically and understand the development of landscape painting, creative guidelines, and criteria for evaluation. This book is suitable for beginners in painting, as well as amateur practicing and copying for middle-aged and elderly lovers of calligraphy and painting. It is a concise and practical technical guidebook.