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Yang Yongliang discusses his work "View of Tide" (2008) as part of the artist interview series conducted for the special exhibition "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China."

Xiang Hong demonstrates and gives the history of the "cun" or cracked brush technique of traditional Chinese painting.

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.

This print is the second in the Artificial Wonderland series and is an example of the vertical landscape style. In this work, Yang has copied the imagery of the traditional master but has removed all of the calligraphic elements. By removing the…

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…

The earliest of Yang’s works in the exhibition, this piece represents the beginnings of Yang’s stylistic experimentation. In viewing his earlier work, it becomes apparent how his later works more strongly exemplify the aesthetic and emotional…

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…