Chinese Painting Scroll Beijing Palace museum Snowfall by Sunshine Wanggongwang

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View on a Quick Snowfall Followed By Sunshine
by Huang gongwang
Yuan Dynasty
29.7 x 331 cm,
Beijing Palace Museum.
Huang Gongwang (1269 - 1354) by name Zijiu and styled Yifeng and Dachi Daoren was a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province.
His style was after the ancient landscape masters Dong Yuan (d. ca. 962) and Ju Ran (active late lOth century). Huang Gongwang, Wu Zhen (1280 - 1354), Wang Meng (1038 - 1385) and Ni Zan (1301 -1374) are known as the four masters of the Yuan Dynasty.
In art he rejected the landscape conventions of his era's Academy, but is now regarded as one of the great literati painters. Art historian James Cahill identified Huang Gongwang as the artist who "most decisively altered the course of landscape painting, creating models that would have a profound effect on landscapists of later centuries." One of Huang Gongwang’s strongest influences was his technique of using very dry brush strokes together with light ink washes (when colour is applied to a specific area using a soft-haired brush with wide strokes that blend them together into a unified wash) to build up his landscape paintings. He also wrote a treatise on landscape painting, Secrets of Landscape Painting.
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