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The composition of this work was taken from Qu Ding’s "Summer Mountains", a hand scroll from the Northern Song Dynasty. With this recognizable infusion of history, the work expresses an apocalyptic foreboding for the China of today

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…

The imagery and composition for this work was taken from Xu Daoning’s Fisherman’s Evening Song, a Northern Song hand scroll.

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…

This composite photograph takes the form of a panoramic handscroll that presents a succession of towering mountains wreathed in mist and surrounded by expanses of open water. But upon closer examination, the majestic mountains are revealed to be…

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

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

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 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,…

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,…