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Dong Yuan (Chinese: 董源; pinyin: Dǒng Yuán; Wade–Giles: Tung Yüan, Gan: dung3 ngion4; c. 934 – c. 962) was a Chinese painter. He was born in Zhongling (钟陵; present-day Jinxian County, Jiangxi Province). Dong Yuan was active in the Southern Tang Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Feb 9, 2015 · Dong Yuan (董源, ?–962), courtesy name Shuda (叔達), was a native of Zhongling (鐘陵, modern Jinxian in Jiangxi Province) and worked as an administrative official during the Southern Tang (937–975) of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.
Dong Yuan was an important innovator in Chinese landscape painting. He created mysterious and inviting scenes of mountain (山) and water (水) (‘mountain-water’ [山水 – shānshuǐ] means ‘landscape’ painting in Chinese).
style of landscape painting. …associated with the name of Dong Yuan, who held a sinecure post at the court of Li Houzhu in Nanjing, are broad and almost impressionistic in treatment. The coarse brushstrokes (known as “hemp-fibre” texture strokes), dotted accents (“moss dots”), and wet ink washes of his monochrome style, said to be ...
Jul 3, 2017 · As a student in the Experimental Arts Department at Beijing’s renowned Central Academy of Fine Arts, Dong Yuan began to document the mundane objects of daily life. She decided to paint, literally, everything she owned.
"Dong Yuan never glamourises the ordinary things on which she focuses her astute gaze, but they are beautiful — and melancholy — nonetheless. With meticulous realism, she records the here and now, classifying, documenting and ordering her world.
It was there that a distinctive “southern” style of landscape painting developed under the court official and artist Dong Yuan. Riverbank epitomizes Dong Yuan’s new style, with its absence of contour lines and use of subtle ink washes and soft-rubbed texture strokes to describe the distinctive rounded hills and earthen slopes of ...
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