Artist: Huang Gongwang (Huang
Kung wang) (1269-1354)
Title: Nine Pearl Peaks
Material: ink and color on silk.
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Period/Date: Yuan dynasty
Iconography/Iconology:
Stylistic Comments: The great landscapes of the Yuan Dynasty
are developed in a visual manner much different from their Northern or Southern
Song precedents. The atmospheric effect of the Yuan landscape paintings
appears much drier, with less mist as a pictorial element, giving the appearance
of greater distance. The brush strokes are much more loose and free with
vastly less attention paid to details. Close examination of the painting
shows that the brush strokes are derieved from a canon of strokes, rather
than developed to meet the needs of the particular component being drawn.
This gives the overall painting a much more impressionistic quality than
those of either of the preceeding dynasties.
