[Top] Autumnal Colors On the Chiao and Hua Mountains. Zhao Mengfu.
— a descendant of the Song Dynasty royal family, Zhao Mengfu joined the court of the Yuan Dynasty Emperor. He rose to cabinet minister, and secretary of the Art Academy. Despite his stigma as a collaborator with the Yuan, he is one of the most well established Calligraphers in all of China.
There is a long inscription written by Zhao Mengfu explaining why he wrote the painting, and this is again an Archaic pursuit of portraying landscape “blue and green” style. He disregarded correct size for relationships and made things purposefully out of scale. This is not pursuant of beauty to be appreciated by the viewers, and denied the possibility of romantic landscapes. The landscape is austere, even bleak. The artist most prized the antiquity or ancient style displayed in his painting - rather than its modern techniques or maturity.
[Bottom] Bamboo Groves in Mist and Rain. 1308. Guan Daosheng.
Zhao Mengfu’s wife, Guan Daosheng learned from her husband how to paint; many female painters learned from literati family or teachers.
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Tang Wei Min
Tang Wei Min was born in 1971 in Yong Zhou, Hunan Province of China. In 1991, he graduated from the Art Department of Hunan Standard College, where he majored in oil painting. In 2001, Tang Wei Min was accepted into a graduate study program in the Painting Department in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
Tang Wei Min’s “Girl with Fan” was honored with second prize during the exhibition organized for the prestigious “Charles B. Wang” scholarship. This acclaimed painting was selected for the May 2001 issue of “Chinese Oil Painting” and now resides in a private collection. An additional work titled “Peeping” was shown at the Present-day Oil Painting Exhibition in Hunan Province, China. In 2003, Tang Wei Min was honored with his work being purchased and exhibited by The Beijing Museum of Fine Art. A small group of exclusive galleries in the United States and China represent his works. [Lotton Gallery]
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hifructosemag:
San Francisco-based artist Ferris Plock is well known for his paintings which include cartoons and reference pop culture. He barrows from the ancient style of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblocks, but because of his incorporation of popular culture, his work has a unique contemporary quality that makes it relevant today. Plock uses a wide variety of mediums including gold leaf and India ink to create his highly detailed paintings. Hi-Fructose featured Plock in Volume 08. See his humorous sketches and read the interview about his sketchbook and creative process here:
http://hifructose.com/2012/10/19/inside-the-sketchbook-of-ferris-plock/
Hi-Fructose, are you kidding? On what planet is ukiyo-e “ancient”? Ukiyo-e prints began being made in the 17th century, and were still produced large scale into the 20th century. You could only call ukiyo-e “ancient” if you would say the same of a Rembrandt print.
How does one “barrow” something? Poor typos aside, I think we’ve addressed the Myth of “Ancient” on this blog before, although I believe the previous post was in regards to China’s dynasties. For the record, let it be known that Edo Japan (the time of the Ukiyo-e print, is not only not ancient, it is consistent with the time period that say, King James to Queen Victoria covers.
If this is ancient, I’ll eat my hat:
Here’s a quick guide for “Ancient” verus “Not Ancient at all, actually.”
This is from the Jomon period of Japan, i.e. the year 2000 BCE, that is Before Common Era.
This, on the other hand, is View of Mount Fuji from Harajuku, part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series, by Hiroshige, and is from the year 1850 CE, that is “Common Era”, and not Ancient:
For comparison, The Romantics were roughly popular in Europe from 1800-1850, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began in 1848, Realism gained in the 1840’s.
Ukiyo-e is ancient if you believe Millais is ancient.
Christ in the House of his Parents, 1849-1850 CE.
This idea that something is “ancient” simply because it doesn’t follow Western European standards of Art evolution or developments is very dangerous and misleading. They cannot be compared by the same standards.
