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  2. Shan shui - Wikipedia

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    Mountains had long been seen as sacred places in China, [4] which were viewed as the homes of immortals and thus, close to the heavens. Philosophical interest in nature, or in mystical connotations of naturalism, could also have contributed to the rise of landscape painting. The art of shan shui, like many other styles of Chinese painting has a ...

  3. Blue-green shan shui - Wikipedia

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    The blue-green shan shui (simplified Chinese: 青绿山水; traditional Chinese: 青綠山水; pinyin: Qīng-Lǜ Shān-Shuǐ), is a Chinese painting style of "shan shui". It tends to refer to an "ancient style" rather than modern ones. The main colours of the paintings are blues and greens, and in the early period it was painted using mineral dyes.

  4. Chinese painting - Wikipedia

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    Chinese landscape painting, "shanshui hua" means the painting of mountains, rivers, and cliffs which are the two major components that represents the essence of the nature. Shanshui in Chinese tradition is given rich meaning, for example mountain represents Yang and river indicates Yin.

  5. Fan Kuan - Wikipedia

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    The classic Chinese perspective of three planes is evident - near, middle (represented by water and mist), and far. Unlike earlier examples of Chinese landscape art, the grandeur of nature is the main theme, rather than merely providing a backdrop. [3] A packhorse train can barely be seen emerging from a wood at the base of a towering precipice.

  6. Guo Xi - Wikipedia

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    Guo was a representative painter of landscape painting in the Northern Song dynasty, has been well known for depicting mountains, rivers and forests in winter. This piece shows a scene of deep and serene mountain valley covered with snow and several old trees struggling to survive on precipitous cliffs.

  7. Cloudy Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Cleveland Painting is one of the Cleveland Museum of Art's oldest dated Chinese painting, acquired in 1933. [2] It depicts the misty riverscape of the Yangtze Delta . [ 2 ] As a result of the turmoil during the Jin-Song war, Mi Youren fled the scene where upon the encounter of the landscape, he painted this piece on September 11, 1130.

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