Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (feb 7, 927 BC – nov 27, 918 BC)
Description:
1000 CEInk and colors on silk
Fran Kuan
206.3 cm x 103.3 cm
Painted during the early Song Period
Example of Chinese landscape painting
Chinese view mountains as sacred and home for immortals.
Kuan was many who fled to the mountains during the tumultuous time of the five dynasties period (end of Tang to beginning of Song)
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Date:
feb 7, 927 BC
nov 27, 918 BC
~ 8 years and 2 months