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Chapter 27:  China and The Romantic View of Nature Humanities 103 Beth Camp Spring 2005
Getting Started How would you describe Chinese landscape painting? What are the differences between European and Chinese ¡°nature¡± painting?
A Word about Taoism Philosophy and religion of China since c. 3 Century BCE --essentially to follow the way to achieve freedom from desire and life of simplicity Later search for immortality, study of alchemy By 5 th  Century integrated many aspects of Buddhism Talking about Taoism is  not talking about Taoism
Chinese Landscape painters Ni Tsan 1301-1374  Tai Chin 1388-1462  Chen Rong (active ca. 1235-1262) Shen Zhou 1427-1509
Chen Rong  (active ca. 1235-1262) Nine Dragons, 1244
Chen Rong, Detail of Nine Dragons, 1244
Excerpt from ¡°Nine Dragons¡± ¡°. . . The greatness that emerged from the tip of my brush cannot be found elsewhere in the world.  At a distance, one feels as if the clouds and the waves were flying and moving.  Viewed closely, one suspects that only a god could have painted these dragons.¡± Source:  Tales from the Land of Dragons
Ni Tsan 1301-1374 Peaceful Forest after Rain The Fishing Village after Autumn Rain
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Tai Chin 1388-1462 Returning Home Late from a Spring Outing Online exhibit  National Palace Museum, Taiwan
Shen Zhou 1427-1509 Poet on a Mountain Top, c. 1500 Online lecture  on Chinese Painting White clouds like a belt encircle the mountain¡¯s waist A stone ledge flying in space and the far thin road I lean on my bramble staff and gazing into space Make the note of my flute an answer to the sounding torrent Trans. Michael Sullivan,  The Three Perfections:  Chinese Painting, Poetry, and Calligraphy
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Constable Constable:  Wivenhoe Park (1816)
Corot Corot:  Morning, Dance of Nymphs
Bierstadt American Romanticism: Bierstadt, ¡°Looking Up the Yosemite Valley¡±
Key elements of Romanticism? Religious attachment to nature Emphasize individual experience Subjective rather than objective Human moods = Nature¡¯s moods Power of nature = inspiration + moral truth + redemption
What¡¯s Next? How would you describe  Chinese landscape painting ? Read more about Daoism Checkout:   3,000 Years of Chinese Painting  in the LBCC Library What are the differences between European and Chinese ¡°nature¡± painting?
Do Chinese landscape paintings  show Romanticism (1800-1850)? Not a single style, technique or attitude Subjective and imaginative Emotionally intense, mystical  Rebels against ¡°classic¡±and ¡°neoclassic¡± Emphasizes nature¡¯s wild, mysterious, exotic, melancholic, melodramatic aspects

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  • 1. Chapter 27: China and The Romantic View of Nature Humanities 103 Beth Camp Spring 2005
  • 2. Getting Started How would you describe Chinese landscape painting? What are the differences between European and Chinese ¡°nature¡± painting?
  • 3. A Word about Taoism Philosophy and religion of China since c. 3 Century BCE --essentially to follow the way to achieve freedom from desire and life of simplicity Later search for immortality, study of alchemy By 5 th Century integrated many aspects of Buddhism Talking about Taoism is not talking about Taoism
  • 4. Chinese Landscape painters Ni Tsan 1301-1374 Tai Chin 1388-1462 Chen Rong (active ca. 1235-1262) Shen Zhou 1427-1509
  • 5. Chen Rong (active ca. 1235-1262) Nine Dragons, 1244
  • 6. Chen Rong, Detail of Nine Dragons, 1244
  • 7. Excerpt from ¡°Nine Dragons¡± ¡°. . . The greatness that emerged from the tip of my brush cannot be found elsewhere in the world. At a distance, one feels as if the clouds and the waves were flying and moving. Viewed closely, one suspects that only a god could have painted these dragons.¡± Source: Tales from the Land of Dragons
  • 8. Ni Tsan 1301-1374 Peaceful Forest after Rain The Fishing Village after Autumn Rain
  • 9. ?
  • 10. Tai Chin 1388-1462 Returning Home Late from a Spring Outing Online exhibit National Palace Museum, Taiwan
  • 11. Shen Zhou 1427-1509 Poet on a Mountain Top, c. 1500 Online lecture on Chinese Painting White clouds like a belt encircle the mountain¡¯s waist A stone ledge flying in space and the far thin road I lean on my bramble staff and gazing into space Make the note of my flute an answer to the sounding torrent Trans. Michael Sullivan, The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry, and Calligraphy
  • 12. ?
  • 13. Constable Constable: Wivenhoe Park (1816)
  • 14. Corot Corot: Morning, Dance of Nymphs
  • 15. Bierstadt American Romanticism: Bierstadt, ¡°Looking Up the Yosemite Valley¡±
  • 16. Key elements of Romanticism? Religious attachment to nature Emphasize individual experience Subjective rather than objective Human moods = Nature¡¯s moods Power of nature = inspiration + moral truth + redemption
  • 17. What¡¯s Next? How would you describe Chinese landscape painting ? Read more about Daoism Checkout: 3,000 Years of Chinese Painting in the LBCC Library What are the differences between European and Chinese ¡°nature¡± painting?
  • 18. Do Chinese landscape paintings show Romanticism (1800-1850)? Not a single style, technique or attitude Subjective and imaginative Emotionally intense, mystical Rebels against ¡°classic¡±and ¡°neoclassic¡± Emphasizes nature¡¯s wild, mysterious, exotic, melancholic, melodramatic aspects

Editor's Notes

  • #3: Online exhibit of Chinese landscape painting: http://www.wcc.co.westchester.ny.us/library/syllabi/hall/art108/China_lecture2.html
  • #6: Online Exhibit: Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1,000 Years of Chinese Painting
  • #7: http://www.stolaf.edu/courses/2004sem1/Art_and_Art_History/259/ArtsChina/9dragons.html
  • #9: Source: http://www.china-on-site.com/painting/yuan/nizan/139.htm http://www.china-on-site.com/painting/yuan/nizan/600.htm
  • #11: Source: http://www.npm.gov.tw/exhbition/dai0705/english/e-dai-0705.htm
  • #12: Source: http://www.wcc.co.westchester.ny.us/library/syllabi/hall/art108/China_lecture2.html
  • #16: Artchive: Bierstadt , Albert Looking Up the Yosemite Valley c. 1865-67 Oil on canvas 91.4 x 148.6 cm (36 x 58 1/2 in) The Haggin Museum, Stockton, California
  • #18: Online exhibit of Chinese landscape painting: http://www.wcc.co.westchester.ny.us/library/syllabi/hall/art108/China_lecture2.html