Shadows of Mt. Huang - Chinese Painting and Printing of the Anhui School

Description

Anhui Province was a center of painting in southeast China during the Qing period (17th Century) that was noted for its unusual land features, especially of Huang Shan (“Yellow Mountain”), which frequently appears in paintings of the school. This book grew from the 1981 exhibit of paintings and printings from the Anhui School of Art in 1981 at the University Art Museum in Berkeley, California. The group of artists now known as the Anhui school (including Ding Yunpeng, Xiao Yuncong, Mei Qing, Zha Shibiao, and Dai Benxiao) mostly pursued an emotional extreme opposite from Gong Xian and Kuncan, a severe coolness based on the sparse, dry linear style of the Yuan artist Ni Zan. In the 17th century, when the Anhui style became popular among wealthy collectors in the area of present-day Shanghai, propagated in part through wood-block catalogs illustrating Anhui’s vaunted ink and painting-paper products, ownership of a Hongren painting (an exemplar of the style) became the mark of a knowing connoisseur. Review: A very reliable seller, a good buy. - Book’s conditions exactly as descripted, sound package, quick delivery.