Traditional Reference Works
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Title
Traditional Reference Works
Subject
Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting
Description
The Ming, Song, and Yuan Dynasty landscape paintings that Yang Yongliang takes imagery from.
Creator
Alexandra Mickle
Date
Ming, Song, Yuan Dynasties
Format
Scrolls, ink and/or color on silk or paper
Language
Chinese
Type
Still Image
Collection Items
Summer Mountains
In Summer Mountains, travelers make their way toward a temple retreat. The central mountain sits in commanding majesty, like an emperor among his subjects, the culmination of nature’s hierarchy. The advanced use of texture strokes and ink wash…
Fisherman's Evening Song
An example of a great Northern Song dynasty landscape painting by the great master Xu Daoning. Traditionally, the handscroll would be unrolled from right to left by the viewer seated at a table, which allows for close examination of the painting…
Ten Thousand Li of the Yangtze River
A Chinese Landscape Painting from the Southern Song Dynasty that focuses on expressing the waves of the Yangzi River.
Travelers Among Mountains and Streams
This is Fan Kuan's best known work and a seminal painting of the Northern Song school. It establishes an ideal in monumental landscape painting to which later painters were to return time and again for inspiration. The classic Chinese perspective of…
Horse and Groom in the Wind
Zhao Mengfu’s ink on paper work served as the inspiration for Yang Yongliang’s Horse Training. Zhao is remembered as an exception painter of horses in the style of Tang Dynasty master Han Gan, but he also painted a number of different animal groups,…
The Mind Landscape of Xie Youyu
This handscroll served as reference for Yang Yongliang’s work of the same title. This is one of Zhao’s earlier works and references the blue-green style landscapes of the Jin and Tang Dynasties. The illusions to tradition can be seen in the flatness…
Buildings Among Mountains and Rivers
Buildings Among Mountains and Rivers
Yan Wengui 燕文贵, Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Buildings Among Mountains and Rivers 江山楼观图
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 31.9 x 161.2 cm
This handscroll by Yan Wengui exemplifies the artist’s style, as he was…
Yan Wengui 燕文贵, Song Dynasty (960-1279)
Buildings Among Mountains and Rivers 江山楼观图
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 31.9 x 161.2 cm
This handscroll by Yan Wengui exemplifies the artist’s style, as he was…
One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
Wang Ximeng’s One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains is the only surviving work by the artist. The artist was one of the most well-known court painters of the Northern Song Dynasty and this painting is one of the largest paintings in Chinese…
Lofty Mount Lu
This hanging scroll is the only work in the collection not from the Song or Yuan Dynasty, but is from the later Ming Dynasty. As this piece Lofty Mount Lu was referenced earlier in Yang’s career, the artist may have used his work Phantom Landscape…
Sitting Alone by a Stream
This hanging scroll is by Fan Kuan who is most well-known for his Travelers Among Mountains and Streams. The painting features a large amount of calligraphic components that are written poetry by the various holders of the scroll.