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A Little Drawing Exercise

A Little Drawing Exercise. Illustrate the following poem:. “Snow on the River Over thousand of mountains, no bird flies Over thousands of paths there is no trail of footprints. On a lonely boat sits an old man with bamboo hat and cape, Fishing silently in the snowy river.”

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A Little Drawing Exercise

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  1. A Little Drawing Exercise

  2. Illustrate the following poem: “Snow on the RiverOver thousand of mountains, no bird fliesOver thousands of paths there is no trail of footprints.On a lonely boat sits an old man with bamboo hat and cape,Fishing silently in the snowy river.” Liu Tsung-yuan (773-819)

  3. What aspect of the poem did you focus on? • The snow? • The river? • The mountains? • The fisherman?

  4. Does your picture look anything like this?

  5. Take a look at the following Chinese landscape paintings from the Met Museum… http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/clpg/hd_clpg.htm

  6. Old Trees, Level Distance, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)Guo Xi (Chinese, ca. 1000–ca. 1090)Handscroll: ink and color on silk

  7. Summer Mountains, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), 11th centuryAttributed to Qu Ding (Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056)Handscroll: ink and pale color on silk

  8. The Simple Retreat, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), ca. 1370Wang Meng (Chinese, ca. 1308–1385)Hanging scroll: ink and color on paper

  9. Wooded Mountains at Dusk, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1666Kuncan (Chinese, 1612–1673)Hanging scroll: ink and color on paper

  10. The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), datable to 1691–98Wang Hui (Chinese, 1632–1717), and assistantsHandscroll: ink and color on silk

  11. After looking at these examples… • What common themes do you find throughout the paintings? • What do they suggest about the relationship between man and nature? • How would a Chinese painter illustrate Liu’s poem?

  12. Now try illustrating this poem in the spirit of the Chinese painters you have just viewed… “The snow has gone from Chung-nan; spring has almost come.Lovely is the distance its blue color against the brown of the street.A thousand coaches, ten thousand horsemen pass down Nine Roads;Turns his head and looks at the mountain, not one man!” Po-Chu-i

  13. Does your illustration look anything like this? As you may have already guessed, nature plays a significant role in Taoism…

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