A Critical History of Chinese Painting.
A Critical History of Chinese Painting
1: provide a definition of the term: screen. (in less than 60 words) Your definition should make reference to the article: introduction to the screen, Wu Hong. ( I will attach the reading in the additional file) , your definition should refer to an image from photo study for this course to illustrate your definition. 2: Write an essay about topic #2, choose option 2, Screen I will attach the requirements of the essay, the readings, and the powerpoint about this lecture, and also the professor’s note of this lecture all in the file. In his treatise, Lofty Treatise on Mountains and Springs (Linquan gao zhi), Guo Si (ca. 1050-after 1130), the son of Guo Xi (after 1000 – ca. 1090), gives practical advice about painting landscapes: “A mountain nearby has one aspect. Several miles away it has another aspect, and tens of miles away yet another. Each distance has its peculiarity. This is called ‘The form of the mountain changing with each step.’ The front face of a mountain has one appearance. The side face has another appearance, and the rear face yet another. Each angle has its particularity. This is called ‘The form of a mountain viewed on every face.’ Thus can one mountain combine in itself the forms of several thousand mountains Should you not explore this.” In your essay you should address this fundamental question: do Guo Si/Guo Xi and the textbook author understand Song dynasty landscape painting in ways that are overwhelmingly similar or overwhelmingly different? To work towards answering that question, you may choose to engage some of the following questions (you do not need to engage all, though they may help you frame your answer). How do Guo Si/Guo Xi describe landscape painting? Is this similar to or different from the way in which your textbook describes it? Is it harder for Guo Si/Guo Xi to describe landscape painting in his unillustrated text than it is for the textbook author to show what landscape painting is ware is by using pictures? If you had not seen Chinese landscape painting before reading Guo Si/Guo Xi’s text, would you have been able to see the different types of distance (hint: look at Guo Xi’s painting, Early Spring, and the supplemental Guo Xi paintings)? Why is this point important (or not)? For each reading, textbook and Guo Si/Guo Xi, what is the importance of landscape? Do the textbook and Guo Si/Guo Xi agree on what is most valuable about it? Or do they disagree? Is there a relation between the text of the textbook and the text by Guo Si/Guo Xi? If so, what is it? Please illustrate your essay with Guo Xi’s Early Spring at least 5 more images from slide study for this exam of the Five Dynasties Dynasties and Northern Song period, or from the powerpoints for the course lectures.