Landscape Album in the Style of Ancient Masters, Page 8
Dong Qichang, the Ming Dynasty's biggest art critic and painter, loved to 'imitate the ancients,' and here he's channeling the Yuan dynasty master Fang Congyi (also known as Fanghu). The right page features a dreamy landscape with those signature blue-green mountain peaks, while the left shows his wild, cursive calligraphy of a poem about forgetting time while sleeping under pine trees. It’s a perfect example of how Chinese scholars treated painting and poetry as twin sisters, meant to be enjoyed intimately page by page in an album.
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