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Chinese landscape painting timeline. Shan shui painting first began to develop in the 5th century, [1] in the Liu Song dynasty. [2] It was later characterized by a group of landscape painters such as Zhang Zeduan, [3] most of them already famous, who produced large-scale landscape paintings. These landscape paintings usually centered on mountains.
As the landscape painting rose and became the dominant style in North Song dynasty, artists began to shift their attention from jiehua painting, which indicates paintings of Chinese architectural objects such as buildings, boats, wheels and vehicles, towards landscape paintings.
The Cleveland Painting is one of the Cleveland Museum of Art's oldest dated Chinese painting, acquired in 1933. [2] It depicts the misty riverscape of the Yangtze Delta. [2] As a result of the turmoil during the Jin-Song war, Mi Youren fled the scene where upon the encounter of the landscape, he painted this piece on September 11, 1130.
Thirty-three ink and gouache landscapes are known to have survived. [citation needed] Mu Xin donated these 33 paintings to Yale University in 2003. In 2018, Mu Xin's paintings were featured in the 2018 BBC documentary series Civilisations. [5] Mu Xin is the first, among 20th century Chinese artist, to have artwork collected by the British Museum.
The blue-green shan shui (simplified Chinese: 青绿山水; traditional Chinese: 青綠山水; pinyin: Qīng-Lǜ Shān-Shuǐ), is a Chinese painting style of "shan shui". It tends to refer to an "ancient style" rather than modern ones. The main colours of the paintings are blues and greens, and in the early period it was painted using mineral dyes.
The Water and Land Ritual paintings (水陆画) are a style of traditional Chinese painting based on religious or Chinese mythological subjects. The paintings are mainly intricate portraits of deities, historical figures, and the contrasting lives of common people and tragedies, in an ornate style with rich use of vivid colors and patterns.