Famous Chinese Scroll Painting

Make offer antique chinese or japanese mid century scholars item scroll painting signed chinese chengxun wang early 20th c original ink watercolor painting on silk 145000.

Famous chinese scroll painting. These are long horizontal scrolls 1015 inches 2538 cm wide and up to 30 feet 9 metres long. Shen zhou was one of the four masters of ming along with tang yin wen zhengming and qiu ying. Notice the seals with the distinctive red color and the colophons at the top of the. Loquats and a mountain bird by an anonymous painter of the southern song dynasty 11271279.

Famous chinese paintings from 4th to 21st century. 1919 2010 widely considered as the founder of modern chinese painting wu guanzhong has. As an example of a hanging or landscape scroll heres a river landscape by dong yuan done in the 10th century. Riverside scene at qingming festival is a panoramic painting by zhang zeduan an artist in the northern song dynasty 960 1127.

The hand scroll painting is 5287 cm long and 248 cm wide. Nearly contemporary with the chinese panoramic landscapes are the japanese emakimono scroll paintings of the 12th and 13th centuries. Today such precious old scroll paintings are laid out on tables under glass in museums. A hanging scroll painted by ma lin in or before 1246.

It captures the daily life of people and the landscape of the capital bianjing present day kaifeng during the northern songthe theme is often said to celebrate the festive spirit and worldly commotion at the qingming. It is the only existing masterpiece from zhang and has been collected by the palace museum in beijing as a national treasure. Small album leaf paintings like this were popular amongst the gentry and scholar officials of the southern song. Qingming shanghe tu is a panoramic painting generally attributed to the song dynasty artist zhang zeduan 10851145.

Along the river during the qingming festival also known by its chinese name as the qingming shanghe tu is a painting by the song dynasty painter zhang zeduan 10851145. Some of the reproductions of this most famous chinese painting are famous in themselves. Ink and color on silk 2266x1103 cm.