September 11, 2004
September 10, 2004
Four Drawings
How to describe these? A Van Gogh pen and ink drawing under the influence of Chinese painting with Albrecht Altdorfer's Alexander's Victory (The Battle at the Issus) (1529) somewhere in the back of the mind.
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Untitled 1-4, September 2004, ink on paper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" (scanned)
September 09, 2004
Wang Ximeng (1096-1119, Song Dynasty), A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains
Wang Ximeng (1096-1119, Song Dynasty), A Thousand Li of Rivers (sic) and Mountains
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 22 x 469 x 22 in.
Collection: Palace Museum, Beijing
Images from http://academic.reed.edu/chinese/chin-hum/LandscapePaintings/landscape.html
In the first chapter of Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Wu Hung writes:
(Wang Ximeng's) A Thousand Li of River (sic) and Mountain is a breathtakingliy beautiful blue-and-green landscape panaorama painted for the emperor (Huiuzong) by a brilliant young artist who arrived at court in his teens and unfortunately died only a few years later. The young man received the gift of direct instruction in the art of painting from Huiuzong, and the present picture must have been something like a graduateexamination. It bears a colphon by the prime minister, Cai Jing, which provides the only information known about Wang Ximeng. This brilliant coloristic manner had an old history, going back to the Tang court and to the Li family of court officials, who are said to have invented it. It was adopted by the Song imperial family as an appropriate emblem of their reign and was used widely throughout the Song period. Members of the imperial family continued to prefer the blue-and-green landscape style and technique, and it was later utilized by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), whose life as perhaps the last significant member of the Song imperial family lends a particular poignancy to its use in the period of Mongol rule. As if painted under Huizong's instructions, Wang Ximeng's landscape combines classical roots in the blue-and-green tradition, elegant and realistic drawing, and a glowing, golden atmosphere that is a kind of visual poetry[1].
[1] Three thousand years of Chinese painting / Richard M. Barnhart ... [et al.]. New Haven : Yale University Press ; Beijing : Foreign Languages Press, c1997.
Occidental (Blue & Green) 1-12
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September 08, 2004
Untitled (Blue & Green) 1-6
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Untitled (Blue & Green) 1-6, September 2004, watercolor & ink on Crane's acid free archival thesis paper, 11 x 8 1/2" (scanned)
September 07, 2004
reBlog at Eyebeam
Heh- I've been reBlogged at Eyebeam by Tom Moody.
Also, see post at Tom's weblog, as well as conversation with Tom and Sally McKay.
Occidental Blue & Green (2's, 3's, 4's) 1-9
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Occidental Blue & Green (2's, 3's, 4's) 1-9, September 2004, watercolor, pencil & ink on Crane's acid free archival thesis paper, 11 x 8 1/2" (scanned)