VIS 127B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Architecture Of The Song Dynasty, Guo Xi, Hanging Scroll
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Extra credit: go to a museum, choose a chinese artwork, write one page about it. Fan kuan (990-1030: traveling among mountains and streams, hanging scroll ink and light color on silk 1000. Hanging scrolls like this one are very large standard size. Hanging scroll is more verical than horizontal hand scroll format. Uses ink shade and wash. small short strokes for depicion of uneven, rough, rocky mountain surface. Concentraion on mountains in the background, which takes up 2/3 of the composiion. Monumental landscape paining always has human being acivity (really iny) Streams, human acivity, mountains typical elements in monumental style paining. Use of fog in the middle separaing background from middle ground (light ink wash) Diferent dots show diferent parts/colors of trees. Dark ink lines to outline certain areas. Guo xi (1000-1090: many court painters paint diferent kinds of landscape scenes for the enjoyment of people of court.
