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After the artists from the Six Dynasties (220-618 AD) and Xie or the already mentioned I Kaizhi Gu laid the foundation, the painters of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) formed the first golden age of Chinese painting in which the landscape was a key element. Read the rest of this entry »

In the ecstasy of art that represented the Song Dynasty came three extraordinary painters were known as “the three painters rivals.” The first was the aforementioned Li Cheng (see previous work). Guan Tong is his contemporary, master of the art “Fu Pi Cun” with skillfully representing the angular shapes of the mountains. The youngest of the three is Fan Kuan. Of the latter are known very few biographical details, and few of his works have come down to our days have come, but one of them, “Travelers Among Mountains and rivers,” is truly exceptional. Read the rest of this entry »

During the Song Dynasty (960-1279) on shan shui (Chinese landscape painting) reached an exceptional development. The Taoist idea that man is but a tiny presence in the vastness of the cosmos inspired the painters of the time, especially during the Northern Song period (960-1127). Such is the quantity and quality of the landscapes of this period it should be considered as one of the golden ages of landscape painting of all time, along with Impressionism or seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting. Read the rest of this entry »

After the fall of the Roman Empire, landscape painting had no relevance in the Western world during the Middle Ages. Between the XIII and XIV century, the natural impulse of the great Giotto di Bondone (who is said to have started in the art chalk drawing sheep on the rocks) slowly begins to introduce landscape painting, as seen in his frescoes of “The flight into Egypt” or “Joachim among the shepherds.” Read the rest of this entry »

Guo Xi is one of the biggest names in the culture of the Song Dynasty. Born and raised in Henan Province, Xi was a man of extraordinary training, court official, a theorist of painting whose book “The powerful message of the forest and the rivers’ influence on several generations of painters. And above all was an outstanding painter, author of works such as “Deep Valley”, “Fall River” or the wonderful “Early Spring” shown here. Read the rest of this entry »