Xu Daoning, Chinese (ca. 970–1052). / Courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Nature has provided a source of inspiration for Chinese poets and painters for thousands of years. An exhibition at the ...

Landscape paintings have a rich history in China, but for many westerners who aren’t fluent in the tradition (read: many of us), there may be a tendency to look them with a certain myopia–to see them ...

Twenty-first-century photographs executed in a 10th-century style contrast modern-day China with its past. Pastoral at best, nostalgic at worst: That’s how I would describe Yao Lu‘s photographs if I ...

The first floor gallery and the mezzanine level of the Crow Collection of Asian Art are currently closed for renovation and reinstallation, and this liminal state -- the museum in transformation -- ...

Having trained under the guidance of Shen Shijia, a legend in the field, Yu has dedicated his life to perfecting the art of Chinese landscape painting. Opinions expressed by Digital Journal ...

A symbol of Chinese fine art, landscape paintings are not only a reflection of mountains and rivers, but also a presentation of the mind, a manifestation of aesthetics. Since ancient times, literati ...

This live art-making class is inspired by the Chinese album leaf Travelers in Mountains. In this session, we will focus on painting a mountain landscape. The Museum partners with the Arts Council of ...

Some 60 celebrated landscapes are part of a rehang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don’t pass them by: They are demanding to the eye and mind alike. By Holland Cotter It always feels like early ...

Where landscape space in European art tends to stretch wide and deep, it comes high and narrow in traditional Chinese painting. Nearly 10 feet tall, "Pine Lodge Amid Tall Mountains" by Ming Dynasty ...

When Mao Yan was a student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, in Beijing, in the late 1980s, he chanced upon a photograph of The Monk by the Sea, a painting by the German artist Caspar David ...