Chinese landscape painting, in general, is the famous paintings art that take landscapes as themes, treats the natural mountains and rivers as major description objects. As the saying goes, mountains represent population and water is emblem of property. It means that if somewhere have a flourishing population is related to mountains, and whether wealthy is connected with water.
Chinese mountain and water painting forms its own artistic tradition and system. Through mountain and water paintings, people can taste both artistic conception and the artistic style of Chinese paintings well.
Mountains and water - Chinese Painting
Related Posts:
Chinese Modern Paintings
Beginning with the New Culture Movement, Chinese artists started to adopt using Western techniques. It also was during ..Tang Yin a Great Masters of Landscapes
Tang Yin, better known by his courtesy name Tang Bohu, was a Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher, and poet ..Wall Paintings on Buddhist and Daoist Themes by Han Gan
Han Gan was a Tang Dynasty painter, who, though recorded as having done wall paintings on Buddhist and ..Zhao Mengfu a Chinese Scholar and Painter
Zhao Mengfu has been honored as an early master within the tradition of the literati painters, who sought ..Waterfall in Chinese Landscapes
Many critics consider landscape to be the highest form of Chinese painting. By the late Tang Dynasty (618-907), landscape ..