Landscapes and trees ca. 1679 Gong Xian Chinese By the mid-1670s Gong Xians confidence as a painter had taught him to avoid an overly skillful or popular style. He wrote:“Nowadays when people paint they do only what appeals to the common eye; I alone do not seek to please the present.” In this album, both paintings and inscriptions attest to Gongs striving after a spiritual communion with earlier masters while creating a pictorial vocabulary all his own. Departing from his densely textured, monumental landscape style of the 1660s, Gong moved toward a sparser manner in which each brushstroke is made to function calligraphically as well as descriptively, embodying both expressive and representational meaning. The albums format—paintings accompanied by art-historical comments—reminds us that Gong Xian taught painting for a living. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #7625. Landscapes and Trees Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the tra

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Landscapes and trees ca. 1679 Gong Xian Chinese By the mid-1670s Gong Xians confidence as a painter had taught him to avoid an overly skillful or popular style. He wrote:“Nowadays when people paint they do only what appeals to the common eye; I alone do not seek to please the present.” In this album, both paintings and inscriptions attest to Gongs striving after a spiritual communion with earlier masters while creating a pictorial vocabulary all his own. Departing from his densely textured, monumental landscape style of the 1660s, Gong moved toward a sparser manner in which each brushstroke is made to function calligraphically as well as descriptively, embodying both expressive and representational meaning. The albums format—paintings accompanied by art-historical comments—reminds us that Gong Xian taught painting for a living. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #7625. Landscapes and Trees Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the tra

SuperStock offers millions of photos, videos, and stock assets to creatives around the world. This image of Landscapes and trees ca. 1679 Gong Xian Chinese By the mid-1670s Gong Xians confidence as a painter had taught him to avoid an overly skillful or popular style. He wrote:“Nowadays when people paint they do only what appeals to the common eye; I alone do not seek to please the present.” In this album, both paintings and inscriptions attest to Gongs striving after a spiritual communion with earlier masters while creating a pictorial vocabulary all his own. Departing from his densely textured, monumental landscape style of the 1660s, Gong moved toward a sparser manner in which each brushstroke is made to function calligraphically as well as descriptively, embodying both expressive and representational meaning. The albums format—paintings accompanied by art-historical comments—reminds us that Gong Xian taught painting for a living. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #7625. Landscapes and Trees Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the tra by Piemags/PL Photography Limited is available for licensing today.

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