Chinese Landscape

Painting
-Mountains and Forests
 Trees play an important part in
Chinese landscape painting.

Branches should point in the Four

directions.
 Trees can be compared to people,
with the guest and host relationship,
between an old man with experience
and dignity and a young man with
modesty.

Two trees are common.

Two Trees
Trees can be identified by their size,
shape and leaves.

Generic trees can be painted in xieyi

or gongbi style for leaves.

General Trees
Masters
 Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322)
Autumn Colours on the Que and Hua Mountains
 Hong Gongwang (1269-1354)
Dwelling in the Fuchan Mountains (Excerpt)
 Hong Gongwang (1269-1354)
Dwelling in the Fuchan Mountains (Excerpt)
Shen Zhou (1427-1509)
Lofty Mount Lu
Dong Qichang (1555-1636)
Shady Trees in a Summer
Landscape
Wang Jian (1598-1677)
Shen Zhou (1427-1509)
Lofty Mount Lu
Wang Yianqi (1642-1715)
After Huang Gongwang’s
Autumn Mountains
Bada Shanren (1626-
1705)
Autumn Landscape
Zhang Daqian (1899-1983)