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his unusual brush stroke techniques, later copied in countless paintings, to give a strong sense of foliage to the trees, which contrasts with the rounded waves of stone that make up the mountains themselves. This gives the painting a more distinct middle ground, and makes the mountains have an aura and distance which gives them greater grandeur and personality. He also used "face like" patterns in the mountain on the right. A painting attributed to Dong Yuan,
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The inlet by breaking the landscape into groups makes the serenity of the foreground more pronounced, instead of simply being a border to the composition, it is a space of its own, into which the boat on the far right intrudes, even though it is tiny compared to the mountains. Left of center, he uses
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paintings, and exemplified the elegant style which would become the standard for brush painting in China for the next nine centuries. He and his pupil
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Southern Tang Dynasty scholar Dong Yuan created the illusion of depth and distance ... the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
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As with many artists in China, his profession was as an official, here he studied the existing styles of Li Sixun and
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of the Northern style they constituted the four seminal painters of that time.
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Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717)
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Dongyuan

Palace Museum
Nanjing
Chinese
Painting
Southern Tang
Chinese name
family name
Dong
Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Gan
painter
Jinxian County
Jiangxi
Southern Tang
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
Nanjing
landscape
Juran
Jing Hao
Guan Tong
Wang Wei
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oscar Tang
Zhang Daqian
Xiao and Xiang Rivers (潇湘图). Part of a handscroll, ink and color on silk, Palace Museum, Beijing.
Palace Museum

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