#shanshui

Gordon Cheung —Tears of Paradise (financial newspaper, archival inkjet, sand and acrylic on canvas,)

drawing chinese shanshui on porcelain

This piece leans into minimalist oriental landscape art, sumi-e textures, and timeless East Asian ink painting composition rather than heavy detail, letting negative space become part of the scenery itself.

Two-thirds of this painting is nothing. And that nothing is everything. Tang Yin's "The Thatched Hut of Dreaming of an Immortal" is a study in liúbái - the deliberate emptiness that Chinese literati painters wielded like a blade. All the weight sits right: gnarled dragon-scale pines, a craggy rockface, a straw-roofed hut where a scholar sits in contemplation. Then your eye drifts left into open space and finds a single robed figure walking above the clouds, untethered from anything solid. The immortal, or the dream of one. Tang Yin topped Suzhou's imperial examination in 1498, then got accused of cheating in the capital exam the following year. Stripped of his shot at official life, he spent the rest of his days painting, drinking, and building the persona of a romantic exile. This piece lives that philosophy - retreat as creative act. The palette is austere: parchment tones, lamp-black ink, muted olive in the pine needles, a whisper of blue-grey in the receding peaks. If you have a reading corner or a quiet spot where you go to think rather than perform, this is the piece. Printed on Japanese Kozo Washi, the long mulberry fibers have a soft warmth that echoes the original ink-on-paper medium Tang Yin worked on - you can feel the tonal shifts in those layered rock faces instead of losing them to flatness. Now at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, thousands of miles from the Suzhou garden culture that produced it. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

桂林guilin, guangxi province by 刘顺儿妞

‘Lake,mountain, fresh summer’ By Zhang Daqian, Chinese painter (1899－1983) 

Lin Dekun's latest masterpiece of small-scale landscape painting

Unas manchitas para probar color y papel