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The second print in a larger series, Viridescence focuses specifically on the short lived tradition of blue-green landscape painting, that emphasized bright, vivid hues of blue and green. This work shows Yang Yongliang experimenting with the…

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…

This work Artificial Wonderland takes reference from Yan Wengui’s Buildings Among Mountains and Rivers from the Song Dynasty. Yang’s work reinterprets the landscape of the old master, following the traditional mode of referencing past works.

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…

An example from the Peach Blossom Colony series, this work follows in the style of Zhao Mengfu’s handscroll of the same title. The subject of the scene is Xie Youyu, a scholar-official who is portrayed seated across from a stream in a landscape of…

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,…

This print comes from the Peach Blossom Colony series, which was Yang’s initial foray into placing human figures into his works, using actors as stand-ins for members of the literati class. Rather that attempting to recreate a landscape painting,…

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…

Yang Yongliang's reinterpretation of Fan Kuan's work of the same title.

A Chinese Landscape Painting from the Southern Song Dynasty that focuses on expressing the waves of the Yangzi River.