Famous Chinese Scroll Painting

The hand scroll painting is 528 7 cm long and 24 8 cm wide.

Famous chinese scroll painting. 1030 bei northern song dynasty. Riverside scene at qingming festival is a panoramic painting by zhang zeduan an artist in the northern song dynasty 960 1127. Chinese pictorial art as viewed by the connoisseur. It captures the daily life of people and the landscape of the capital bianjing today s kaifeng from the northern song period.

Metropolitan museum of art. 5 meter long ancient scroll painting is one of the most precious treasures of china. Travelers among mountains and streams ink and slight colour on silk hanging scroll by fan kuan c. Yale university press 1997.

Loquats and a mountain bird by an anonymous painter of the southern song dynasty 1127 1279. Small album leaf paintings like this were popular amongst the gentry and scholar officials of the southern song. People lined up to wait for six hours to see one of china s most famous artworks an exquisite 12 th century scroll painting depicting the song dynasty capital of haifeng during the festival of qingming. A hanging scroll painted by ma lin in or before 1246.

How to read chinese paintings. It is the only existing masterpiece from zhang and has been collected by the palace museum in beijing as a national treasure. Along the river during the qingming festival up the river during qingming qingming river view 清明上河圖 pinyin. There is frequent depiction of roads or paths that seem to lead the viewer s eye into the work.

Istituto italiano per il medio ed estremo oriente 1958. Barnhart et al pp. Ink and color on silk 226 6x110 3 cm. In three thousand years of chinese painting by richard m.

The following are the 10 most famous paintings of china in no particular order. Widely considered one of the great masterpieces of chinese landscape painting in chinese literally mountain and water painting fan kuan s travelers influenced countless generations of painters and still impresses viewers to this day with its sublime depiction of nature. The hand scroll painting is 528 7 cm long and 24 8 cm wide. In the national palace museum taipei taiwan.

It captures the daily life of people from the song period at the capital bianjing today s kaifeng in henan. The story goes that fan kuan took to the depths of the mountains to observe and learn from nature and thereby transmitted the spirit of the mountains with his brush.