Wang Lü, Landscapes of Mount Hua (Huashan), album leaves, 1384 (Ming Dynasty, China), ink on paper (Shanghai Museum) Speakers: Dr. Kristen Loring Brennan and Dr. Steven Zucker
I love the soft background noise of people going around. It makes me feel as if I was in a museum with them and listening to this informative conversation. Makes learning art even more interesting 🤗
祝大家新年快樂！😊 I absolutely love these paintings ! I’m not very advanced yet but I’m currently trying to learn to paint in the old landscape style. I started to learn to paint like Huang Gongwang who used a very light layer of ink first, then he added a slightly darker layer on top of the lighter strokes. He didn’t cover the first layer exactly so you can still see it. However, I’m very impressed by Wang Lü’s paintings and I’m just thinking about to learn his style as well.
Wonderful. Brings to mind say the European Romantic era where there would be more likely be a sense of man being dwarfed and overwhelmed by the alien majesty and grandeur of nature - maybe the Alps, Turner and so on. Here though there is a beautiful intimacy to the human figure in the main piece and also the others shown, whilst in the midst of these great mountains. Also to add, Van Gogh’s The Ravine came to mind as something of an hereditary cousin to these landscapes.
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@@smarthistory-art-history If you'd ever like to make more videos you could have more people join helping make them and speak over the work like you, maybe in countries where you're not at the moment... I'd do it for free, I live in between London and Madrid, right now by the Prado Museum :) Love this kind of work
"I see this tiny figure walking... wondering where the path leads," was such a cute and unexpected way for the video to start. 🥰 Not quite the "We're here at Mount Bougiengton Museum" that I'm used to, lol. The example of the Tang Dynasty blue-green style (around 2:23) was stunning. What a beauty. The paintings are beautiful, but the way you two described them makes me want to see each leaf so I can really appreciate how unique and personal they are. I'm reminded, even in the midst of my ho hum routine, that there's a whole world out there and mysteries abound... I've never wanted to see pine trees so much (1:41), lol. Wholeheartedly agree that color isn't necessary - I'm amazed at how much detail was conveyed by the various brushstrokes and negative space. This is a new favorite. ❤
Wang Lu no doubt was a g, but as an avid Alan Watts junkie this reminds me of his talk where he compares/contrasts this with European style. Whereas the figure would be the center attention in Western art, due to the very Taoist influence and nature of the philosophy of an egoless 'boss' - be it Nature-one finds that one would - to quote Alan - "need a magnifying glass to see them". Taoism insists more on interplay and harmony whereby man is just part of nature instead of the one dominating it. Even now in photography I see many folks who takes a dab big hit of them standing behind Eiffel Tower or something which one can barely miss. smh
proper cool post again .. my bathroom is rather damp .. i took some photographs of the mould patterns on the wallpaper .. they are very much generically related to this series .. but more minimal ;)
