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Fan Kuan A Famed Chinese Artist

Fan Kuan A Famed Chinese Artist. Fan Kuan (Chinese: 范寬 ; pinyin: Fàn Kuān ; Wade–Giles: Fan K’uan ) (fl. 990–1020) was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song Dynasty (960–1279) considered among the great masters of the tenth and eleventh centuries. Travellers amid Mountains and Streams.

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Fan Kuan A Famed Chinese Artist

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  1. Fan KuanA Famed Chinese Artist • Fan Kuan (Chinese: 范寬; pinyin: Fàn Kuān; Wade–Giles: Fan K’uan) (fl. 990–1020)was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song Dynasty (960–1279) considered among the great masters of the tenth and eleventh centuries.

  2. Travellers amid Mountains and Streams • Travellers amid Mountains and Streams (谿山行旅), • ink and slight color on silk, dimensions of 6¾ ft x 2½ ft. • National Palace Museum, Taipei, • http://uwch-4.humanities.washington.edu/~WG/~134/

  3. Scale & Proportion • Compositional analysis • Components/Contrast • Scale/proportion • Travellers (hard to see) • Humbling • Be one with nature

  4. The historian Patricia Ebrey • ...foreground, presented at eye level, is executed in crisp, well-defined brush strokes. Jutting boulders, tough scrub trees, a mule train on the road, and a temple in the forest on the cliff are all vividly depicted. There is a suitable break between the foreground and the towering central peak behind, which is treated as if it were a backdrop, suspended and fitted into a slot behind the foreground. There are human figures in this scene, but it is easy to imagine them overpowered by the magnitude and mystery of their surroundings.

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