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

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…

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…

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 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…

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."

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…