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91: 192: 38: 75: 59: 107: 210:, most of them already famous, who produced large-scale landscape paintings. These landscape paintings usually centered on mountains. Mountains had long been seen as sacred places in China, which were viewed as the homes of immortals and thus, close to the heavens. Philosophical interest in nature, or in mystical connotations of 293:– Pathways should never be straight. They should meander like a stream. This helps deepen the landscape by adding layers. The path can be the river, or a path along it, or the tracing of the sun through the sky over the shoulder of the mountain. The concept is to never create inorganic patterns, but instead to mimic the 303:– The path should lead to a threshold. The threshold is there to embrace you and provide a special welcome. The threshold can be the mountain, or its shadow upon the ground, or its cut into the sky. The concept is always that a mountain or its boundary must be defined clearly. 309:– The heart is the focal point of the painting and all elements should lead to it. The heart defines the meaning of the painting. The concept should imply that each painting has a single focal point, and that all the natural lines of the painting direct inwards to this point. 422:
Elements that react positively should be used together. For example, Water complements both Metal and Wood; therefore, a painter would combine blue and green or blue and white. There is a positive interaction between Earth and Fire, so a painter would mix Yellow and Red.
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painting, they do not try to present an image of what they have seen in the nature, but what they have thought about nature. No one cares whether the painted colors and shapes look like the real object or not.
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imagery and motifs, as symbolisms of Taoism strongly influenced "Chinese landscape painting". Some authors have suggested that Daoist stress on how minor the human presence is in the vastness of the cosmos, or
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Elements that interact negatively should never be used together. For example, Fire will not interact positively with Water or Metal so a painter would not choose to mix red and blue, or red and white.
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or phases representing various parts of the natural world, and thus has specific directions for colorations that should be used in 'directions' of the painting, as to which should dominate.
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painting refutes color, light and shadow and personal brush work. Shan shui painting is not an open window for the viewer's eye, it is an object for the viewer's mind.
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Wicks, Robert 1954 – "Being in the Dry Zen Landscape", The Journal of Aesthetic Education – Volume 38, Number 1, Spring 2004, pp. 112–122
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interest in the patterns or principles that underlie all phenomena, natural and social lead to the highly structuralized nature of
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paintings involve a complicated and rigorous set of almost mystical requirements for balance, composition, and form. All
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Shan shui painting is a kind of painting which goes against the common definition of what a painting is.
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assume that the term includes all ancient Chinese paintings with mountain and water images. Contemporary
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Ideological Differences and World Order: Studies in the Philosophy and Science of the World's Culture
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While many landscape paintings in China uses only ink or uses color for aesthetic purposes, some
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rather than more conventional paints. Mountains, rivers and waterfalls are common subjects of
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uses the same art style and even the term for the film's title. Additionally, many recent
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Textual Evidence for the Secular Arts of China in the Period from Liu Sung through Sui
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This article is about a style of Chinese painting. For Chinese landscape poetry, see
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Pearl from the Dragon's Mouth: Evocation of Scene and Feeling in Chinese Poetry
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Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century
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Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers
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painting first began to develop in the 5th century, in the
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are painted and designed in accordance with Chinese
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Shanshui
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Early Spring
Song dynasty
Guo Xi

Yuan dynasty
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Qing dynasty
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