dec 7, 1002 - Travelers among Mountains and Streams
Description:
Date: 1000 CE
Artist: Fan Kuan
Medium: ink on silk
Location: National palace Museum,
Taipei, Taiwan
Function:
- Artist isolated himself away from civilization to be with nature and study it, for his landscapes; Daoist Philosophy
- Produced very complex landscapes
- might be his only surviving work; signature hidden in the bushes on the lower right
- Hanging scroll
Form:
- Different brushstrokes describe different kinds of trees: coniferous, deciduous etc.
- long waterfall on right balanced by mountain on left; waterfall accents the height of the mountain
- not a pure landscape: donkeys laden with firewood are driven by two men; a small temple appears in the forest; man seen as small and insignificant in a vast natural world
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