Dong Yuan
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Landscapes, Figurative subjects Art Work
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Dong Yuan |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Zhongling, Jiangxim China |
| Nationality: |
Chinese |
| Birth: |
1934 |
| Death: |
1962 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
Landscapes, Figurative subjects |
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| Style: |
A sophisticated perspective, use of pointillism and crosshatching to build up vivid effect |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
| Dong Yuan was the leading exponent of what became known as the Southern School of landscape painting. Very little is known about his life, but his art has survived and Dong Yuan remains an influential and legendary artist. In China, traditional painting developed as an offshoot of calligraphy: ink brushwork applied to walls, paper, or silk scrolls. From the earliest surviving examples on tomb walls through to the seventh century, painting content had been primarily figural and representative. This began to change during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), when a more meditative art focusing on the natural world began to emerge. The landscape genre came to be held as the paradigm of Chinese painting and reached its maturity during the turbulence of the Five Dynasties era (907-960), when Dong Yuan was active. Although he also worked in the "blue and green" style characteristic of the Tang era. Yuan is most famous for his monochrome shan shut (mountain-water) images. With long, damp brushstrokes and wet ink washes, he created tranquil, dreamlike panoramas inspired by the topography of the lush Yangtze River basin. He was also renowned for his figure paintings and for his teaching, He went into partnership with his most famous pupil, Ju Ran, founding together the Southern School of landscape painting. This name is not the one they gave their school; it seems to have been applied by a later art historian, who saw their style as markedly different from that of artists he dubbed the "Northern School." Dong Yuan's elegant brushwork, innovative shading techniques, and sophisticated use of deep perspective revealed new possibilities and set an aesthetic ideal that was to be much admired and imitated in centuries to come. RB |
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