Chinese Art after 1279

China

Tang dynasty (618–907)

Five Dynasties (907-960)

Song Dynasty (960-1279)

Mongol Invasion (early 13th c.)

Yuan Dynasty (13th c.)

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

Du hua

“to read a painting”

The integration of calligraphy, poetry, and painting,

scholar artists for the first time combined the “Three

perfections” in a single work of art.

Han Gan, Night-Shining White, Tang dynasty (618–907), ca. 750.

Zhao Mengfu, Groom and Horse, 1296, Handscroll, Ink and Color

[Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)].

Zhao Mengfu, Twin Pines, Level Distance,

Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), ca. 1300.

techniques and formats of Chinese painting

Fan Kuan, Travelers Among

Mountains and Streams, Northern

Song Dynasty, 11th century,

hanging scroll.

Perugino, The Delivery of the Keys To St. Peter, 1481

(11’ 5 1/2" × 18’ 8 1/2”).

Mantegna, Camera degli Sposi,

c. 1474.

Zhao Mengfu, Autumn Colors on the Qiao

and Hua Mountains, 1296. Yuan Dynasty, handscroll.

online at national museum

Fan Kuan, Travelers Among

Mountains and Streams, Northern

Song Dynasty, 11th century,

hanging scroll.

Zhao Mengfu, Autumn Colors on the Qiao and

Hua Mountains, Yuan Dynasty, 1296.

(details)

Ni Zhan, The Rongxi Studio, 1372,

Yuan Dynasty, hanging scroll.

Late Yuan Literati Painting

Yin Hong, Hundreds of Birds Admiring

the Peacocks, Ming Dynasty, late 15th/early 16th century.

Shen Zhou, Poet on a Mountaintop,

Leaf from an album of landscapes,

mounted as part of a handscroll. Ming dynasty. C. 1500.

White clouds sash-like

wrap mountain waists,

The rock terrace flies in space,

distant, a narrow path.

Leaning on a bramble staff,

far and free I gaze,

To the warble of valley brook

I will reply, whistling.

-Shen Zhou

Dong Qichang,

The Qingbian Mountains in the Manner

of Tung Yuan, 1617.

video

Shitao, Landscape, c. 1700.

The “David” Vases.

Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds/Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 2010.