Northern landscape style

The Northern Landscape Style (

This style, in retrospect, focuses around the development of a distinct tradition of landscape painting in China. At the beginning of this brief period there was no clear image of how landscape painting would be realised. At its end there existed an idea of a national style.[1]

This style is considered to be founded by

However, it is important to note that Li Cheng was also influenced by the southern Jiangnan Landscape style. Juran travelled to the Song court around 975. Li Cheng's combination of the northern and southern styles is as if it were a microcosm symbolic of the physical reunification of China under the Song Dynasty. Later Dong Qichang would find it useful to contrast the Jiangnan style and the Northern Landscape style in order to support his theories. However his writings ignore the heavy influence both played on the formation of the artistic tradition in the Song and the subsequent dynasties.

See also

• Culture of the Song Dynasty
• Chinese painting
• Chinese art
• History of Chinese art

Notes

References

• Banhart, Richard M. et al. (1997). Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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