Fan Kuan
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Fan Zhongzheng (c. 960 – c. 1030),[1][2] courtesy name Zhongli, better known by his pseudonym Fan Kuan (Template:Zh), was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song dynasty. He was both a Daoist and a Neo-Confucianist.[3]
Travelers among Mountains and Streams, a large hanging scroll, is Fan Kuan's best known work, possibly his only surviving one,[3] 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.[4] The classic Chinese perspective of three planes is evident - near, middle (represented by water and mist), and far. Unlike earlier examples of Chinese landscape art, the grandeur of nature is the main theme, rather than merely providing a backdrop.[1] A packhorse train can barely be seen emerging from a wood at the base of a towering precipice. The painting's style encompasses archaic conventions dating back to the Tang dynasty.[5]
The historian Patricia Ebrey explains her view on the painting that the:
...foreground, presented at eye level, is executed in crisp, well-defined brush strokes. Jutting boulders, tough scrub trees, a mule train on the road, and a temple in the forest on the cliff are all vividly depicted. There is a suitable break between the foreground and the towering central peak behind, which is treated as if it were a backdrop, suspended and fitted into a slot behind the foreground. There are human figures in this scene, but it is easy to imagine them overpowered by the magnitude and mystery of their surroundings.[6]
Fan's masterpiece Travellers among Mountains and Streams bears a lost half-hidden signature rediscovered only in 1958.[5]
See also
Notes
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- ↑ Sullivan, The Arts of China, 179.
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- ↑ Ebrey, Cambridge Illustrated History of China, 162–163.
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References
- Liu, Pingheng (1989). Shui mo yin yun, qi yun sheng dong de Zhongguo hui hua (水墨絪縕, 氣韻生動的中國繪畫) = Misty and Lively Chinese Painting. Taibei Shi: Guo li li shi bo wu guan (Script error: No such module "Lang".).
- Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
External links
- Painting Gallery of Fan Kuan at China Online Museum
- Other paintings by Fan Kuan at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Template:Webarchive
- Fan Kuan, A Bilingual Study of His Life & Works (English & Chinese)
- Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717), an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Fan Kuan (see index)