The document discusses Chinese art and culture from antiquity to the modern era, focusing on landscape painting traditions from the Song Dynasty as well as 20th century artists commenting on tradition, politics, and China's relationship to the global world. Major artists discussed include Fan Kuan, Ma Yuan, Xia Gui, Liang Kai, Mu Qi, Ai Weiwei, Fang Lijun, and Zhang Huan.
21. The Chinese are known worldwide for their ceramic technology.
Their international reputation for this product is so strong that in
English we call anything made of ceramic “china.” Ceramics are
also potent symbol of Chinese culture within China.
24. Ai, Neolithic Culture Pot with
Coca-Cola Logo, 1992 Neolithic culture pot
We try to comprehend the past on its own terms. We
also view it through the lens of the present.
32. “I don't think humans can ever really control this, and it
has become even less controllable. Circumstances are
now much more complicated than we can predict. For
example until quite recently there was no China or India
and now suddenly they are the factories of the world.
But people are still trying to figure out what this means
in relation to ideology, social and political structure, and
all kinds of other problems, like education and the
environment. I don't think there is a single reaction, at
least for myself that can answer these questions, or put
me at peace.”
—Ai Weiwei, from a recent interview
33. Where are we now?
What is our relationship to
tradition?
34. Abbreviated list of dynasties
Qin (220-206 BC)
Han (206BC-220 AD)
Tang 618-906
Song
Northern Song 960-1127
Southern Song 1127-1279
35. Song
This is one of the “golden ages” of
Chinese culture.
71. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
72. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
73. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
74. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
75. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
76. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
77. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
78. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
79. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
80. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
81. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
82. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
83. Xia Gui, Pure and Remote View of Streams and Hills, handscroll
84. Liang Kai
southern Song dynasty
1201-4 painter-in-
attendance at the Song
painting academy in
Hangzhou
later relinquished that
position to live and
paint at a Chan (or
Zen, in Japanese)
Buddhist temple
85. Liang Kai, Hui Neng, Chopping Bamboo at the Moment of
Enlightenment, pen and ink, hanging scroll, 12 x 29 inches
112. Ma Lin, Scholar Reclining and Watching Rising Clouds, mid 13th c.
Stuart Franklin, Students Hunger Striking, Tianamen Square, 1989
113. Fang Lijun
1963 born Handun,
Hebei province, China
1989 Graduate, Print
Dept., Central Institute of Fine
Arts, Beijing, China
2005 Professor, Hebei
Training University Art
College, China
Lives/works Beijing
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117. Fang Lijun, Group Two, No. 2, 1993, oil on canvas 78 3/4 x 78 3/4
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893, oil on canvas
118. Fang Lijun, Group Two, No. 2, 1993, oil on canvas 78 3/4 x 78 3/4
Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1970, 14 x 12 inches
119. Fang Lijun, Group Two, No. 2, 1993, oil on canvas 78 3/4 x 78 3/4
Chinese Poster, c. 1960
120. Zhang Huan, To Add 1 Meter to an Unknown Mountain, 1995
c-print